No nursing shortage: roll call!

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This is a follow-up to the "will the nursing shortage ever end?" post. If there's a glut of new grads and unemployed nurses in your area, post your location. I'll start: Bay Area/NorCal - no jobs here, kids!

Specializes in They know this too!.

MA all of it. My career is over.

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Specializes in Peds Medical Floor.

Here's the California ad from Buffalo Craigslist:

http://buffalo.craigslist.org/hea/2507577456.html

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Specializes in Mixed Level-1 ICU.

Columbus, ga .... Hiring new grads...Many ICU positions open currently, hiring new grads straight into icu as well..."

Remind me to stay clear of Columbus, Ga.

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Specializes in PICU, ICU, Hospice, Mgmt, DON.

Not to rain on any new grads parade but one of the oldest tricks in the HR book is to list positions that are actually either open but will be filled internally or just being held. They have no intention of filling some of those positions but will lose the funding if they don't keep advertising. The hospitals are cutting staffing ratios and not replacing nurses who have left. Add that to the glut of new grads all over the country and no nursing shortage.

Don't let advertised positions be the guide as to whether or not nurses are actually getting hired as frequently these are not actual postions. It's better to contact the HR dept if you can to find out if any real positions exist...or the nurse managers on the floors...or the nurses that actually work in these hospitals, they will tell you the truth. It's unfortunate, but true...yes, they can do this and they do.

That is one of the reasons you will see the same positions listed over and over again.

and as for Hiawaii...I am afraid that has been totally dried up for years...no new jobs for anyone...not even the travel positions.

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Northern Virginia. Glut, glut, glut. Schools everywhere, pouring out new grads for the unemployment line. Sigh.

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Specializes in Critical Care; Cardiac; Professional Development.

Dallas/Ft Worth, Texas. Definitely no shortage here.

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Indianapolis, Indiana: Quite a few nursing programs offered by "for profit" schools have popped up here (I am a graduate of one) that are churning out new grads as ASN's at an alarming rate.

The only thing slowing them down is that wonderful brick wall called the NCLEX. Seems a lot of new grads that fail it take a year off to cram hard for their next attempt.

The other problem are that hospitals in the area are stressing they only hire nurses who graduated from accredited programs..not accredited by the state board..they want NLNAC or CCNE and most of the schools here are not..or just got on the "pending" list.

This has forced quite a few nurses with ASN's to try to go back to school for their BSN from schools that are fully accredited..again slowing them down from employment.

Myself, I have always seen myself as a Geriatric nurse so felt lucky in getting a job in a SNF while many of my hospital bound cohorts are still trying to get onboard.

I could not in good faith endorse nursing in my state to anyone considering it unless they had previous experience in the hospital, went to an accredited school, and were willing to work part time at first and stick it out until full time was available. I Had several friends turn down jobs because they were just PRN or less then .5 per pay. I started at .4 and after 8 months am now happily working a 1.0 schedule.

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New York City!! No such thing as a nursing shortage! Health and hospital corporations are overworking their few nurses!!! yes pay is good but not that good when you doing the job of 3 nurses!!

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Jacksonville, FL - saturated! NO shortage, good luck!

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Specializes in Mental Health, Medical Research, Periop.

SOUTHERN MD, and other parts of the DMV AREA. More nursing schools than jobs, experience required and BSN preferred.

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Chicago metro and north: glut of new nurses, unhappy experienced nurses doing the big musical chair game.

Beware of HR, never a straight shot from them. They are forbidden to really tell you anything - it's bad business (LOL). If you are a NG and you have a serious "in" you'll get a job without even trying. This EVEN if you were a complete sorry failure in every aspect of your college experience. It's about who you know, and that person usually is somebody's BFF.

Folks, its Chicago Metro. That is how it's done. We are part of Illinois, the land of corrupt ...well, everything :up:.

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Specializes in LTC.

Northwest Wisconsin--lots of grads.

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