New Grad No Job? $ for More Training (CA) - do you think it will help?

[sozo]

has it/would it work where you are?

"...The Program will identify 250 talented

RN

graduates who have not yet found Bay Area nursing jobs and provide them with a 12-18-week post-licensure internship in either an acute or non-acute clinical setting...

"The employment issue for new graduates is a short-term problem," Nikki West, the program's coordinator for CINHC, said in a March 22 statement. "Experienced nurses are postponing retirement and part-time nurses are taking more shifts than usual. So, new grads aren't being hired at the moment. Once the economy picks up, we anticipate an unprecedented need for nurses. Our goal is to retain these new graduates in the local workforce."

The purpose of the

RN

Transition Program is to keep new graduates' skills current, enhance their professional competencies and provide opportunities for them to gather experience in clinical settings, according to the Institute..."

http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/stories/2010/03/22/daily8.html?s=industry&i=health_care

[Thank_You_RNs]

I will believe when I see it happening. But for now, I havent seen any improvements in the job market. More and more new grad rns and lvns are graduating without jobs. As an old grad/new grad myself, I am tired of placing my foot at the hospital doors just to turn me away. Now that the healthcare Reform bill has been signed, I hope we see changes and more job creations.

[elprup, BSN, RN]

http://www.samuelmerritt.edu/t2p

Samuel Merritt University has a transition program that sounds quite familiar to this. If you are in the Bay Area, CA check if out if you are a new grad without job. If's a few program and a good idea. Wish I was closer so that I could do it. Something has to change soon for us new/old grads.

[caliotter3]

It would help keep these people busy and out of prospective employers' hair, but I doubt there will be much of a dent in the employment rate. It still matters that the jobs just aren't available.

[gordinaz]

am researching nursing employment now and in the future, thinking about possibly attending a school for RN. In my research of jobs available, being there is so many, what would be the reasons they give you for not getting employed? I have heard from many people in the field, that getting a job out of school is pretty much for sure.

[caliotter3]

am researching nursing employment now and in the future, thinking about possibly attending a school for RN. In my research of jobs available, being there is so many, what would be the reasons they give you for not getting employed? I have heard from many people in the field, that getting a job out of school is pretty much for sure.

Do some more browsing and reading on this website. Jobs out of school are not a given, nor are they a given for experienced nurses. And jobs in the San Francisco Bay area are pretty much nonexistent. The stories about there being a nursing shortage are a myth and probably have always been. If a nurse who wants a job can not get hired somewhere, then there is no shortage. That is the common theme of many threads and complaints of unemployed nurses on this site.

[CranberryMuffin]

It would help keep these people busy and out of prospective employers' hair, but I doubt there will be much of a dent in the employment rate. It still matters that the jobs just aren't available.

"keep these people busy and out of prospective employers' hair"...?

Excuse me? I recognize that while it might seem like a pesky nuisance to have new grads knocking on doors and doing whatever they can to get jobs, but the reality is that it is an issue of being able to pay rent, put food on the table, etc. I get the impression that you find us new grads more of an annoyance than an asset. I've been told time and time again that the only way new grads are going to get jobs in this market is to get aggressive with job hunting.

I agree with you that it won't make much of a dent in the employment rate, but it provides an opportunity for new grads to develop better skills and may be a stepping stone to more steady employment. Something is better than nothing. At the very least, it is heartening to see that someone is doing something to help new grads, which is far more than I can say for most hospitals or facilities that are now refusing to hire us.