nursing shortage is over?

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It's getting harder and harder to find a job in the field even the RN had a hard time to find a job (I'm LVN), I am recently working in a nuring home and I got a little bit bored. I recently try to find the hospital job since last week but did not have any luck (I sent out a ton of resumes!!!!!!!!!!). Copule days ago, i heard the news on TV that since the bad economy, hospital stop hiring and old nurse can not retirded because their retirement plan is busted. As a result, the new grad can not find the job either. :eek: Is it the nursing shortage in California is finally over:uhoh3: I hope to hear from anybody:crying2:

As in CA. One can go to facilities where the entire employee population is 80% to 90% from one or more of the countries that export nurses to the US. Not necessarily a place where one can get a job if one does not fit in.

Well, this is so in a large network in the Midwest as well. But this network hires from only one foreign country, and it's the 80 to 90%. Rotten thing to do for many reasons.

I am sure feet are held over fire because this originating country is one everyone wants out of. I even spoke with a nurse who was very ****** off because they scaled back on the "pipeline" due to the economy, and she wasn't able to bring her friends/family members over who went to nursing school in her country just as a ticket to the U.S. She was quite honest about it and I so I gained the proof that it was pretty much a secured deal for some time.

I have classmates that pct'd during school, who were passed over for NG postions in favor of imports.

Lots of U.S. nurses looking for work in my area. Funny how in their marketing including TV commercials, this large network neglects to show "representatives" of their real nursing staff. :uhoh3:

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I love the depictions of "staff" that fails to show the true demographics of the employment workplace. I once went to a hospital clinic for necessary tests. I had to wait for several hours for the follow-up. I went to the hospital cafeteria to wait and did not see one, not one, hospital employee that resembled "me" for more than four hours. I felt very creeped out.

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There was never a shortage of nurses. Nurses got tired of the bs and politics in nursing. They decided to do something else with their life.

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Specializes in burn ICU, SICU, ER, Trauma Rapid Response.
They won't hire BSNs but will ADN? That seems backwards. You know their reasoning for this?

*** While I don't agree with the unofficial policy it certainly seems no more backwards to me than the "BSN only" hospital policies.

They stopped hiring new grad BSNs into the nurse residency program because to many of them go off to CRNA school to soon. For example the class of 2007 had 9 nurses in it. Two ADNs and 7 BSNs. One BSN had a baby and became a stay at home mom. The other six have all gone to CRNA school. Of those six 4 did not finish their two year contract they singed to get into the nurse residency and the other two left within weeks of finishing their contract. The two ADNs (I was one) still work in the SICU. Subsequent classes have been similar. Now only ADN prepared nurses are hired. While I think there were better solutions to the problem I can understand why they had to do something after the large investment they put into those nurses. Another ICU in a nearby town is doing the same for the same reason.

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Specializes in Psych, EMS.
They stopped hiring new grad BSNs into the nurse residency program because to many of them go off to CRNA school to soon. For example the class of 2007 had 9 nurses in it. Two ADNs and 7 BSNs. One BSN had a baby and became a stay at home mom. The other six have all gone to CRNA school. Of those six 4 did not finish their two year contract they singed to get into the nurse residency and the other two left within weeks of finishing their contract. The two ADNs (I was one) still work in the SICU. Subsequent classes have been similar. Now only ADN prepared nurses are hired. While I think there were better solutions to the problem I can understand why they had to do something after the large investment they put into those nurses. Another ICU in a nearby town is doing the same for the same reason.

Same thing is going on here too. Too many BSN new grads got their obligatory year in the ICU and headed to CRNA school, supposedly before the hospital broke even on their investment to train them.

But back to the OP, yes the market is tight for nurses, and no offense but it's kind of surprising that you just became aware of this. However, there is still a nursing shortage. Is your hospital adequately staffed with nurses? Are your ratios safely manageable? Not at my hospital. There is still a nursing shortage, we are not a dime a dozen, there is just also a shortage of management willing to adequately and safely staff.

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Oh goodness! I haven't finished my pre-req's for nursing and already I'm a bit sad. but oh well! Where there's a will, there's a way!

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thought i would put in my ,:twocents: since i am in this situation. there is absolutely no nursing shortage, especially in ca. it's not even close to being over. i graduated in may 09...just shy of 200 applications, 6 interviews, and 7 months later i finally landed a job and that was at an outpatient clinic. can't get a hospital job to save my life. the current job i have is paying my bills and giving me some kind of experience, but it is not the kind of nursing i want to spend my entire career on.

i yearn to work at the bedside, but it's gonna be awhile since people seem to flock to the area i live in, as rn's get paid so much here (but incredibly high cost of living). quite sickening.

it's true - there are so few jobs for ng's right now it is beyond disheartening. i have cried myself to sleep on i don't know how many occasions. i want to cry now just thinking about it. it's probably going to take quite some time for things to turn around. :crying2:

p.s. - i get so mad thinking about all the ng's that get their icu job only to turn around after their obligatory year and go to crna school. i would give my right arm to be an icu nurse. i would sign a contract stating that i need to give 5 years without blinking. don't get me wrong, if that's what they want (crna) then kudos to them, but it makes other ng's look bad b/c mana5ers think they will get their year and bounce. and, more often than not, the managers are right. :mad:

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Don't believe there ever was a "shortage" good to hear that the media is finally figuring that out.

The media will declare a nursing shortage, on one day, and a glut of nurses on the next. The government jobs forecasts still claim that in the next 10 years there will be a shortage of nurses but that does not do us much good right now!!

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