Nursing market becoming oversaturated?

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As I am pounding through my core and support classes I am noticing more and more people either moving to texas or beginning to take nursing as their career. Has the state become oversaturated with nurses?

Also when trying to get an internship are grades something they look at with high regard?

Right now I am working towards a Biology degree and was then maybe going to pursue nursing but was thinking of putting that off and rather do nursing first and then work towards my degree in biology.

Would having a degree in Biology and a AS in nursing better my chances at getting an internship/job?

Specializes in LTC, CPR instructor, First aid instructor..

My daughter is an OT who lives in the rural Austin area, and has no problem with getting supefvisory positions.

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Specializes in OB/Gyn, L&D, NICU.

Why don't you just get your BSN? Why would you get a bachelor's in one field (4 yrs), then go back to school for an RN (another 2 yrs), when you can just get your BSN in the first place in 4 yrs??

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Specializes in Adult Emergency Case Management.

I graduates in May 09 with a BSN in San Antonio. All through school, I kept hearing that the head hunters would be snatching us up before we even graduated. We were fed that we would have so many job offers that we would be able to negotiate a lot of things.

I graduated with a good GPA. I have at 14 years exp in either EMS or as a medic in the military. Before graduating, I started putting out applications and resume. I continued doing that after graduating and having by RN , BSN. I had over 60 applications out at the different hospitals around here. I received 2 interviews. Both ended up hiring and an experienced nurse.

I ended up getting lucky. I used a good connection and finally got a decent job at one of the places I applied. The only reason I got the job, or even an interview was due to the connection.

My best advice for any nursing student about to graduate is to do your best to make contacts. Be memorable for the right reasons. Get into an intern/extern position. Do not rely on HR to find you.

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I graduated in 2008 with my bachelor of science degree in biology, minor in chemistry. I am now in my 3rd semester in a BSN program and while I can tell you that so far my experience with having that previous degree has been useless. I throw it around to help me out with job interviews, externships, etc, but as far as it helping me out in nursing...nadda. When I tell that to my professors they're response is always, "well that will definitely help you out with the anatomy and physiology of nursing." Okay, yes this is true but nursing is a lot more than just the science behind it. My advice, if you're just beginning your bio degree...ditch it and go for nursing. If you only have semester left, finish that and then do an accelerated second degree BSN program. It will be tough, but you can handle it b/c while nursing is a lot harder than I ever expected, your upper division biochemistry, embryology, comparative anatomy, cellular biology, immunology, virology, etc... will be no comparison. My advice, if you finish your bio... go to medical school! Nursing is great though and so far I love it!!

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:confused: I am a nurse and graduated on oct 19 2009, I am still looking for a job in nursing. I have applied

God knows many places. Every single one same answer,"we are not hiring new grads". I think I have

wasted my time going to school for nursing.

I believe Nursing market is oversaturated. All my fellow students are still looking for the Job.

I am tired of listening over the Tv, online and newspaper that there is great nursing shortage.where?

Everyone who is getting laid off from job, poeple are telling them go for nursing.

At this point I am willing to move out to another state. Can someone tell me which states are hiring.

I have wasted my 2 years in school to become LPN.

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Specializes in cardiology.

The Odessa/Midland area is hiring. One of my friends is moving there and we graduate with our BSN in May and 2 hospitals have been harassing her to work for them! Not the other way around, they want/need people, so anyone who is that desperate for a job that you would relocate maybe you should check it out!

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The Odessa/Midland area is hiring. One of my friends is moving there and we graduate with our BSN in May and 2 hospitals have been harassing her to work for them! Not the other way around, they want/need people, so anyone who is that desperate for a job that you would relocate maybe you should check it out!
Good advice:up:
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Specializes in Case mgmt., rehab, (CRRN), LTC & psych.

Many people from out of state are moving to Texas in search of nursing jobs. Many people are changing their majors to nursing because they think it is recession proof. Many older nurses are delaying their retirement and continuing to work. All of this adds up to an oversaturated nursing job market in the major metro areas of Texas.

http://www.buffalonews.com/145/story/956350.html

FORT WORTH, Texas — A few years ago, hospitals were offering nurses $10,000 signing bonuses, loan payoffs, even cars as incentives to battle a nursing shortage in Texas.

Today, some nursing school graduates consider themselves fortunate to find a job.

“It took me a year to find something, and it wasn’t easy,” said Ann Karl, who graduated in 2008 and recently went to work for Huguley Memorial Medical Center in Burleson, Texas. “I think I must have hit the curve right when the hospitals were starting to slow down on hiring.”

Karl is hardly alone. Three years ago each graduate averaged three job offers, said Pamela Frable, director of nursing at Texas Christian University’s Harris College of Nursing and Health Sciences. But at graduation last summer, more students than ever before did not have jobs.

A surge of applicants from nursing schools and from other states, plus older nurses returning to the work force, has increased competition for jobs.

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Great advice! The era of healthcare system begging you to come work just because you're an RN is over, at least until the economy heals. But with the right network, good skills and great attitude, you won't even feel the saturation.

I graduates in May 09 with a BSN in San Antonio. All through school, I kept hearing that the head hunters would be snatching us up before we even graduated. We were fed that we would have so many job offers that we would be able to negotiate a lot of things.

I graduated with a good GPA. I have at 14 years exp in either EMS or as a medic in the military. Before graduating, I started putting out applications and resume. I continued doing that after graduating and having by RN , BSN. I had over 60 applications out at the different hospitals around here. I received 2 interviews. Both ended up hiring and an experienced nurse.

I ended up getting lucky. I used a good connection and finally got a decent job at one of the places I applied. The only reason I got the job, or even an interview was due to the connection.

My best advice for any nursing student about to graduate is to do your best to make contacts. Be memorable for the right reasons. Get into an intern/extern position. Do not rely on HR to find you.

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As I am pounding through my core and support classes I am noticing more and more people either moving to texas or beginning to take nursing as their career. Has the state become oversaturated with nurses? ........

Parts of Texas have been saturated with nurses for a long time. There were plenty of jobs in the large, metro areas in the past, but that is changing now.

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I am graduating in May 2010 and I have already landed a job! I was worried that I would have a hard time getting a position but I guess maybe I was lucky!! I applied for Baylor, got a phone interview, they called for an actual interview at the hospital, and 2 days later I was offered a position. I will graduate with a Bachelors. As far as an associates vs a bachelors.....it depends once again which hospital you are trying to work in because if you choose a magnet status hospital they are looking for mostly BSN. Other than that I personally feel like the ADN programs better prepare you for nursing skills where BSN programs prepare you for management. So do your research and determine what you want to do with the degree.

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I just got a rejection e-mail from St Luke's in Houston. I'd applied for their residency and had a good discussion with their rep at our career fair. I had no inside person to push for me. I still have some options and St Luke's is not even my #1, but I believe the job market is trending bad if new grads are not getting snapped up like they do pharmacists.

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