New Grads - where is there a nursing glut?

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Hello,

I just wanted to ask those of you in the midst of job hunting whether you believe your area has a nursing shortage (meaning that new grads find hospital jobs easily) or a nursing glut area (new grads are struggling to get hospital or any jobs). Please name the area/state as some of us from nursing glut areas may be considering relocation. Thank you.

Spudbunny

Specializes in acute, sub acute, long term, homecare.
I see you're from Florida -- whereabouts are you looking for work?

Im in the Hernando County area, been looking in several counties including my own. I have applied at all of the major hospitals in my area, ( Tampa, Clearwater) now moving onto the Orlando area and keeping my fingers crossed.

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Specializes in Acute Care.

The Denver metro area! Its horrible! I'm going to have to move back to AZ if I don't get a job soon. I keep getting the whole "hospital experience without anyone offering hospital positions to new grads" thing.

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:banghead:Hi guys, I just graduated with a BSN and passed the NCLEX-RN. I have been looking for a job in the NYC area because I live here and it has been imposible. So from my experience so far I can tell you NY is not a good place to find a job as a RN, they keep saying they don't have any positions for new nurses. It is very frustrating! I know how you all feel.

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Specializes in ICU, Med-Surg, Post-op, Same-Day Surgery.
My friend works at Delray Medical Center (ICU Stepdown) she gets payed $34, she only has 6 months experience.

Delray is a trauma facility but i'v heard and she also told me the only department that is organized and operated fairly is the ICU all other units are a nightmare.

stay away from St.Mary's Medical Center in West Palm Beach!:yawn:

but jump for the opportunity to work at Good Sam on Flagger next to the ocean. its a upscale facilty and caters to high end patients. i love that place!

Palms West--smaller hospital but well managed

Bethesda Memorial--so so

My boyfriend just got a job down in Boca, so it looks like I'll be moving to that area of FL when I graduate in May. Just wondering, what are the best options for a new graduate nurse (BSN) fresh out of school in that area? We'll probably be living in Boca, but I'm willing to travel a little to get a great job (meaning great place to work). I want to work in ER/trauma/ICU, although I know that is probably a big task for a new grad. Where do you think I should look first? Any other suggestions for relocating out of nursing school are also welcome!

also, anyone know anything about the VA hospitals down there?

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The Denver metro area! Its horrible! I'm going to have to move back to AZ if I don't get a job soon. I keep getting the whole "hospital experience without anyone offering hospital positions to new grads" thing.

same in Boston, I have a Job thank God......but went outside Boston

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The Denver metro area! Its horrible! I'm going to have to move back to AZ if I don't get a job soon. I keep getting the whole "hospital experience without anyone offering hospital positions to new grads" thing.

hit button twice sorry

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Specializes in med/surg, ER.

There is still a shortage here (Central Valley, California). The nursing schools around here all recommend the extern programs so most of us have jobs when we graduate and still there is a shortage. Starting pay for new grads (ADN) at the local, non-profit hospital is $33/$38 NOC. I was told that BSN's should negotiate their starting pay. :yeah:

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Specializes in Cardiac Nursing.

I'm in KY and I guess it depends on where you are and who you are. I've been looking for a job since Feb and haven't found one yet. I graduated in May. I do have an interview finally, for an ICU at a hospital 2 hours away from me in Lexington, KY. I would dearly love to work NICU though as I feel thats where my heart is. But at this point, I need a job. The School I went too graduates ADN students every three months as its an LPN-RN program. There is another school in the area that does about the same. Add the local colleges and universities and you have A LOT of New Grads looking for jobs.

I've even been thinking of going out of state, might not be financially possible....but I may have too.

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Specializes in Cardiac Nursing.
Im a newly graduated nurse who has been an lpn for 18 years, thought it would be a piece of cake to get a job, WRONG!! I have never had so much trouble trying to find a job. It is very disheartening. Everyone wants expereinced nurses and I can truly understand that, but the age old question is how do you get the experience if no one will give you a chance. So I keep plugging along applying and working as an lpn. Seems strange to wonder if I will be out of work when I pass boards.

I'm having the same problem. I have 13 years experience as an LPN, but it doesn't seem to matter. I've worked Telemetry, and CVU..yet my experience doesn't count. Granted I had a 4 year spate of what looks like job hopping, it wasn't, but thats what it looks like. I have finally gotten my resume down to 1 page from 3, so I hope that helps some.

Keep plugging away. Here in KY if I don't find something before my provisonal license expires in Dec I'm screwed. We have a 120 clinical internship we must do before getting our permanent license. No job=no clinical internship.

Good luck to you :-)

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Forget the Southern New Jersey/PA/Delaware area, many of my graduating classmates are unable to land a GN position. The GN's that do have jobs are the ones who worked at the same hospital prior to graduating. Jobs are plentiful for RN's with experience. :cool:

I have to agree. And just to say, I worked at a hospital prior to graduation and they have a hiring freeze so i wasn't hired. A friend from my school who's worked there since 2006 as an extern signed a contract with them in february and they told him in march they can't hire him because they have scholarship students they have to hire (of course, my friend was screaming breach of contract, but who cares what he had to say).

I'm sure some of you know which hospital i'm talking about. Oh, they aren't the only one, their sister hospital in south philly also has the same issue so they have the hiring freeze.

My friend told me earlier but i thought was still gonna get past it somehow because my manager had told me i could work for them. Well, she waited till may to tell me i can't anymore!!! Guess i wasn't the only one screwed.

Several hospitals here aren't either hiring or they only need experienced nurses.

In a way, i'm glad they had a hiring freeze because now, i have to go to a state where i wouldn't pay city wage tax like i do here in philly, i get a nice sign on bonus and they pay more and even have weekend differentials. So yeah, i'd be making more there. I guess the hiring freeze was a blessing in disguise for me and i thank God for that.

If you can move, move somewhere else. Maryland needs nurses. Some will offer you sign-on bonuses, some who don't do the sign-on bonus, like hopkins, does retention bonuses. I heard hospitals outside baltimore city, like PG county pay more than those in the city. Plus, the hospitals i've come across in MD have weekend differentials. I don't see that in philly.

Best luck to all of you still searching.

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I live in the Philly area and seem to be experiencing the same thing. Hospitals are either looking at internal candidates or someone with a year's worth of experience. I've been looking since December and still haven't been hired yet. How do new nurses get experience in a hospital setting if no one wants to hire them? :argue:

It's not just about "internal candidates" anymore. Yes, some do take that, one hospital i know in u.city gives preferences to their CNAs who're nursing students.

We are currently in the age of "scholarship students" - students who had their tuition paid for by hospitals and have to pay back the time. Looks like many hospitals did this investment two or three years ago and now we have hordes of these so called "scholarship students" here in philly. One of the girls in my school here actually had $80k from vorhees or one of the hospitals in south jersey and all she has to pay back is 2 years.

it's pretty sad because people who've invested time as externs get kicked out when they graduate.

It's also good in a way because you get to receive money from a hospital, don't have to burst your behind working full time in school and at the end of the day, you HAVE to be hired by the hospitals that gave you the free ride through school. The sad part is you may end up in a unit you hate.

I say it's a double-edged sword.

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Just out of curiosity, has anyone tried going to a career fair? Nursing schools host them, bringing the hospitals to you! Some representatives give out information about what positions are available and what they're looking for in new grads, while other take resumes on the spot. My school hosts two or three a year, and usually career development also has great tools for finding jobs in the vicinity of your school. Schools usually want to help their students find jobs, because it makes a better selling point to incoming students.

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