new grad hiring freeze

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:banghead:Hello, any one know of new grad positions in Denver right now? I will do whatever it takes, but it is so difficult to find anyone that is willing to train. I will sweep floors and work as a CNA if I have to. I am unable to move because I can't take the kids out of Denver and I would never leave them. I have a BSN and passed the boards at the end of April. I will take any suggestion. Are other new grads having dificulties?:banghead:

I spoke personally to the nurser recruiter at St Joes. They happen to like DSON grads.

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Hello, My reply was mainly to "the prestige" who called DSN a joke. If there were 10 at orientation then there were 10. The conversation with the recruiter was more about the number of applicants compared to the number of positions. I have begun speaking to recruiters who said there were as many as 140 applicants for each positions at some hospitals which is not common. And not just the popular positions like Labor and Delivery. The point of the thread is merely to find out what is going on and how the new grads are doing in Denver.

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OMG 140 applicants for a RN job......I assume a 'new grad' job? 5-7 years ago many nsg schools in CO dramatically increased the #'s of students they would take and there were several new programs started around the state. And with the job losses in the high tech sectors people were flocking to get in with nsg's promise of 'stable employment'.. When I graduated 4 years ago in ft collins I could tell the area hospitals were starting to turn up their noses at the new grads but I thought it was probably just northern CO, alot of my fellow students didn't get hired in FC (and surrounding towns) but had no troubles getting RN jobs in Denver. It did make me wonder what the market would be like in a couple years (now) with the large increase in nsg students (who are NOW RN's). I would tell many potential nsg students this and they thought I was crazy and didn't believe me. Anyway, I just hope that people(now) going into nsg school realize what is going on as well as the nsg schools.....there WAS demand but maybe they have graduated enough students to fill the need for a while.

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If you have the $$, which is a lot, you can get in, the university of colorado, well you need to be top 10% to get in. Another reason, they are for profit, pay money, they print you a degree. Oh and they are not accredited.

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How is that any different than the community colleges that use waitlists? The only difference is whether people are willing to wait 3 years or pay more to start right away.

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If you have the $$, which is a lot, you can get in, the university of colorado, well you need to be top 10% to get in. Another reason, they are for profit, pay money, they print you a degree. Oh and they are not accredited.

CU has their students pass the NCLEX first time about 5% more than DSoN from the BSN program. DSoN is about on par with UNC.

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CU has their students pass the NCLEX first time about 5% more than DSoN from the BSN program. DSoN is about on par with UNC .

Hmm well I guess tell that to Harvard, Stanford, all the BEST RANKED schools in the country that having a competitive acceptance process doesnt work, clearly they are not sorting out the brightest, hardest working students in the country. There is a reason why its so hard and competitive to get into CU. Harvard would not have the reputation they have if they let any idiot walk in the door, pay $40K and print out a degree. The NCLEX pass rates dont mean ****, everyone passes the NCLEX, it doesnt mean you were trained well just because you passed.

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Hmm well I guess tell that to Harvard, Stanford, all the BEST RANKED schools in the country that having a competitive acceptance process doesnt work, clearly they are not sorting out the brightest, hardest working students in the country. There is a reason why its so hard and competitive to get into CU. Harvard would not have the reputation they have if they let any idiot walk in the door, pay $40K and print out a degree. The NCLEX pass rates dont mean ****, everyone passes the NCLEX, it doesnt mean you were trained well just because you passed.

What is you think the students do during their time at DSoN? They must be doing something right with a high NCLEX pass rate. And Harvard has numbers to show what a Harvard/Stanford/Brown/Yale/Wherever-Ivy-Grows education gets you (hiring after grad, average salary, higher degrees obtained, etc.). THAT is why it is competitive. If you have some of these for DSoN, I'm willing to listen and be persuaded. Because I genuinely don't understand where your position comes from.

CU is competitive because it is less expensive and located in the largest Metro area on the Eastern Slope. I'm not saying it isn't good, I'm just saying that even though it would have saved a few grand, I didn't want to sit on the waitlist for years after I received my acceptance letter into CU (had an edge because of previous CU degrees). I would have been happy with a CU degree in a few years. I'm also happy with the DSoN degree I have today.

I'm all for school pride, and I'm proud of both my DSoN and CU degrees (as are my sister of her CU degrees and my mom of her UCHSC FNP and CNM degrees.

(BTW, by DORA numbers, about 8% of CU and 12% of DSoN students didn't pass the NCLEX after graduation last year, so not everyone passes the NCLEX. If you think CU trains better, why?)

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DSoN is about on par with UNC.

Current NCLEX pass rates for CU and Regis are 97.94% and 96.95%, respectively. UNC's pass rate is 100%. DSON's ADN passrate is 72.5%, and the BSN passrate is 88.73%. With this in mind, I am curious as to the basis of your opinion that DSON is on a par with UNC(I am assuming that "CSU" was a typo, as they have no nursing program).

I am truly impressed that Platt's NCLEX pass rate is 100% YTD. As someone who considered their program and went elsewhere, I must give props where they are due.

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Hello again, I would not slam anyone's school. I think Regis, and CU are excellent programs and I know that the students work very hard. I gaduated from DSON, passed the NCLEX in one hour and fifteen minutes so I must have been prepared well by the school. We are all nurses and we are supposed to care about and respect one another. I have a lot of respect for my classmates that went to DSON they are bright hardworking people who care about the patients. DSON is no joke.

We are also taught to care about our fellow staff members. I don't think slamming another school helps anyone.

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Current NCLEX pass rates for CU and Regis are 97.94% and 96.95%, respectively. UNC's pass rate is 100%. DSON's ADN passrate is 72.5%, and the BSN passrate is 88.73%. With this in mind, I am curious as to the basis of your opinion that DSON is on a par with UNC(I am assuming that "CSU" was a typo, as they have no nursing program).

I am truly impressed that Platt's NCLEX pass rate is 100% YTD. As someone who considered their program and went elsewhere, I must give props where they are due.

I wasn't using the YTD numbers because they aren't complete yet and didn't know how accurate they would be. (BTW, CSU does have a nursing school that they combined with the University of Southern Colorado.) For example, UNC consistently gets pass rates in the 85-89% area, but the incomplete numbers are through the roof and I can't be sure if this is a statistical fluke that will correct with the December grads or they really are onto something.

The Regis comment was based on the how they really revamped the nursing school a few years ago and have really pulled it together recently, but struggled there for awhile. DSoN is so much newer, I was comparing it to Regis after their remodel (academic, not what they have been doing to the interiors of their learning labs). I should have been more clear and I'm sorry.

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I just talked to a recruiter for the federal bureau of prisons. There are some openings in Florence Colorado for anyone who is interested. She said that the training program is excellent if you are able to relocate. She also said there are openings in the Department of Health and Human services for work on the Indian reservations. She said the benefits are similar to being in the service, but the hiring age limit is 44. Look up USA Jobs and Federal Bureau of Prisons.

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