New Grads - where is there a nursing glut?

jeepgrl944 · Oct 29, 2008

Hmm sounds like cities in the New England area aren't ripe for harvesting GNs. I live in northern Florida and with every graduating class, the hospitals are hiring GNs with no problem. I work in ER and we're even getting GNs practically every semester. And we're the "smaller" hospital (only 198 beds with 6 floors). Definitely no perceived or actual lack of GN positions here!

I must state also that my hospital uses travelers/agency. So does the other hospital in this town. If we could terminate this practice, we may not have as many openings.

There's a hospital across the Florida/Georgia border that came to my school and recruited us, since we graduate in december. they do not utilize agency nurses, and are hiring GNs. They are so friendly and family-like... they have a level II ER and I would love to work at that hospital, but have already committed to the one I've been working for.

mmm333, LVN · Sep 2, 2010

Perhaps we can resurrect this post with a 2010 update?

California is definitely still suffering a glut as of summer 2010.

AtomicWoman · Sep 3, 2010

Philadelphia and south Jersey are still swamped with new grads. The job picture here is not good.

mmm333, LVN · Sep 3, 2010

This thread was started when the nursing glut was seeding in certain areas- now, two years later, it has spread across the entire country, even to the places that were considered "wide open" at that time. The only questions now are which places are better or worse, what can new grads do in the meantime, and when/for whom is it time to consider embarking on an alternate or similar career path.

mmm333, LVN · Sep 3, 2010

With the influx of the latest batch of new grads in Summer 2010, the nursing glut has spread across the entire country amid a continuing economic recession that prevents new hiring and training of RNs. Where are the bright spots?

SAHMStudent · Sep 4, 2010

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.

hahahahahaha...I was about to think this person was cra-a-aazy when I read this post, then realized it was still one of the 2008 posts.

The times have def. changed. Competition is stiff here in the Metro area, and when hospitals have their choice of Johns Hopkins/Georgetown/University of MD/George Mason/Marymount BSNs, the chances of a new ASN getting hired, is slim. Also, each Co in MD has a CC, plus NOVA and in VA. So there are LOTS of new grads, and only so many slots to go around.

Now, we do have a lot of hospitals, clinics, LTC facilities, plus NIH, the VA, and private companies that hire research nurses (policy, pharm, etc).

But, for someone like myself who was unable to work at a hospital or any healthcare facility during school or breaks, getting hired is a seriously scary challenge. I have lots of other experience behind me in my previous career, but that doesn't mean anything in this new environment.

I'd like to see if other areas have changed too.

JSlice., ASN, RN · Sep 4, 2010

Consider the West!

hiddencatRN, BSN, RN · Sep 6, 2010

Philadelphia and south Jersey are still swamped with new grads. The job picture here is not good.

It seems like it is easing up a bit though? A handful of my classmates already have jobs lined up for post graduation and we only just graduated on the 4th.

AtomicWoman · Sep 7, 2010

It seems like it is easing up a bit though? A handful of my classmates already have jobs lined up for post graduation and we only just graduated on the 4th.

I would say it is not as horrible as it was in 2009, but still bad. And there are plenty of 2009 grads who do not yet have jobs.