Nurse shortage.....WHERE?????

[Aime]

I'm a Div 2 nurse living in a large rural town in Victoria, and am on the casual nurse bank for the public hospital. Since being fortunate enough to get on the bank in March, I've been getting at least two shifts a week, but since exhausting all my saving whilst putting myself through the nursing course, all extra shifts are welcome at the present time, but those extra shifts just aren't coming. Some of the girls I graduated with aren't getting any work at all, yet the system is still pumping out at least 60 Div 2 nurses into what appears to be an overcrowded local workplace each year. I'm wondering if anyone else has experienced the same problem?? and is the situation the same in Melbourne??? We even have Div 1's that are struggling to find enough shifts to make ends meet, yet the papers are always full of reports of a "huge nursing shortage". What's going on here???

[mady]

Shortage of nursing is a world issue. however, shortage of nures mainly happen in certain speciality (such as critical care, nursing home) rural areas and senior positions etc...