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!

If anymore people tell me about a "nursing shortage", I have some swamp land in Florida to sell to them. :smokin:

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Specializes in PICU, ICU, Hospice, Mgmt, DON.
If anymore people tell me about a "nursing shortage", I have some swamp land in Florida to sell to them. :smokin:

And I am here to tell you that there are NO nursing jobs in that Florida swamp land either!:D

The market in SoFl is dreadful....

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Bumping. . . .

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Las Vegas--market is saturated with new grads, for-profit schools still pumping them out every quarter, nurse to patient ratio is high and we have almost the worst healthcare in the country. Hmmmm...imagine that! $$

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I've posted this before, but here in the Phila area, there are about 25 nursing programs that collectively account for more than 2,000 grads passing the NCLEX each year. In fact, that number continues to grow by about 5% or so each year. At the same time, the BLS data for the area show an average of about 200 new nursing positions created over the past five years. While there are certainly more than 200 nurses hired in the Phila area each year - some RN's retire or move - the total hired cannot be anywhere near the number of new RN's entering the workforce. Ironically, nurse:patient ratios are somewhat worse than the national average, though the fix for that certainly exists.

Small wonder new grads have a tough time.

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I graduated with a BS in nursing in May 2010 and unfortunately STILL NO RN JOB (along with about 75% of my nursing graduating class). I am in Georgia and I have filled out over 20+ applications (no exaggeration). No one hires new graduates because of "lack of experience." My fellow classmates have branched out to Texas, North Carolina, and Arizona to find jobs while others (like myself) continue to search for jobs in Georgia with no luck. If there is a nursing shortage can someone please direct me to the location. Don't get me wrong there are several RN positions available AFTER about 2 years of experience under your belt.

I was fortunate enough to get my job back as a certified pharmacy technician at Walgreens (the job I had BEFORE I started nursing school). If I had to rely on my BSN degree and RN license I would still be out of work!!!. :-(

Unfortunately, no nurse shortage in Georgia. :-(

20?? That used to be my daily average when I was looking for work! It sounds like the job pool where you are is really small. It's frustrating regardless though! Don't give up! I snagged a job in a specialty which is what we were always told NOT to do. ("Gotta get your skill set!") Guess what--best decision I ever made. A person has to eat-ya know?! I'm happy, I work for a good company and the world didn't implode when I specialized without being miserable at the bedside first. Frankly, I got sick and tired of begging/hunting for that hospital job when I just felt unwanted and worthless. My current job values me and I in turn value them. Best of luck to you!

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Specializes in Palliative, Onc, Med-Surg, Home Hospice.

Upstate SC. 6 schools graduating nurses in Upstate, very few jobs available. All I can say is "good luck"

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Charlotte, NC area is flooded with new grads!!

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