where are the nursing shortages?

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I am hearing that there are shortages in some areas while some are cutting back jobs.

Can anyone tell me for sure where thet know there are nursing shortages in the U.S or Canada.

Thanks

How about TX? anyone from TX here? I'm planning to move there....

There are positions available especially in the border towns. We have a hard time filling mental health clinic positions.

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United States! Every State! Especially in the ICU's.

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:angryfire Hype hype and more hype..........I cannot believe that the majority of people out there are really buying this garbage. This is not about a nursing shortage. There are more than enough nurses here in this country to meet the needs of our people. This is about the bottom line and nothing more. The nurses that left the field left because they were overworked and underpaid. The answer our politicians came up with was to hire from abroad. This situation and our governments response is no different than the legalization and amnesty for mexican imigrants working the agriculture industry. It's there way of maintaining the bottom line for those at the top. This is not to help nurses nor the patients entrusted in our care. Thank you for not being asleep at the wheel. :angryfire

Totally agree!!

There are nurses out there but they don't work in nursing! I know four nurses who don't even practice! They are in a total different field. I know two more nurses going back to school to change professions. All because they want to get out of nursing.

The pay must be more, and the bennies, retirement, and incentives must be better.

Until then, the ICU's will always be short staffed. The floor nurses way over worked. And the patients to suffer.

:crying2:

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How about TX? anyone from TX here? I'm planning to move there....

Stay away from the small town hospitals because their pay is poor and stay away from Austin. Austin's pay is mediocre and their housing costs are outrageous (For Texas standards anyway.)

I get flyers every other week offering big bucks for me to work the border towns (Brownsville mainly). I've been tempted because you can stretch your dollars quite well in a town like that but never done it.

DFW and Houston areas of course will pay the most and there are plenty of jobs.

San Antonio has plenty of work as well but pay is lower. I've heard from others that San Antonio is also a fairly cheap place to live so maybe it evens out. It's an incredible city, I love visiting there.

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Erie, Pa. and most of Pennsylvania.

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Working weekends never bothered me but just try and find a hospital job with 8 hour shifts....for some of us, that's all we can do and give good care. Moving to 12 hour shifts has bumped a lot of my friends out of hospital work.

Personally, there doesn't seem to be a shortage here in WI.

You've got that right. No shortage in Wisconsin. Moved back to the Fox Valley last August and applied like mad and finally scored a position with a temp agency for insurance nursing in OCTOBER. Tried agency work but no hours! Yet, when I worked med/surg 3 years ago in the Fox Valley they were importing nurses from India since there was such a shortage. Now when you look up classified ads for nursing jobs here you get a few here and a few there but nothing substantial like the hype states. Should have stayed in Northern WI, at least they paid better.

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Well you guys are slowly and surely talking me out of moving back to Wisconsin/Minnesota after my dh retires. Here in WA there is NO shortage of work for me. And I like the scenery MUCH better, as well as our weather. The only rub, is all my dh family are BACK THERE and we would like to go HOME. But not if there is not enough work. No thanks. I don't want to struggle that much. Guess they will just have to fly out and see us.

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I've lived in WI for 18 years but I am not a native (I'm from NJ). I can pass along what every hospital recruiter has told me.....

People who are from WI love it and no matter where they go, want to come back here. At all costs. Recruiters know that so when they get calls from nurses out of state who want to come back, they know they are leaving a (probably) higher paid area to return. So they make no effort to offer the returnee any great shakes in salary.

They feel that they have people over a barrel because everyone loves WI so much. Personally, I don't get it and the minute I retire I'm outta here. It is safe and good schools and all but a wee bit too xenophobic for me.

Anyhoo, that's the story on WI from my POV. You take a hit coming back, it all depends on how much you have to be here. My boss's daughter just convinced her husband to leave sunny California to return to WI to lesser jobs and dreadful weather. And there are a million more just like her.

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In fact, the hospitals have soooooooo many nurses to care for their patients that they are in layoffs! (Of course, the nurses left behind just about had their patient loads doubled!)

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There is definitely a shortage in St. Louis. You should see the Sunday classifieds - pages of nursing opennings. Doing what I do for a living, I get a lot of information from nurses/nursing students. Hospitals in St. Louis are recruiting from areas 2 or more hours away because of the shortage of nurses here. Of course, I have also read that even though we have some of the best health care in the country in St. Louis, our nurses are not paid what they should be (of course, are most nurses? no, definitely not) according to the stats on averages. And I can think of 9 nursing schools in STL right off the top of my head that are graduating new nurses every year.

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Well you guys are slowly and surely talking me out of moving back to Wisconsin/Minnesota after my dh retires. Here in WA there is NO shortage of work for me. And I like the scenery MUCH better, as well as our weather. The only rub, is all my dh family are BACK THERE and we would like to go HOME. But not if there is not enough work. No thanks. I don't want to struggle that much. Guess they will just have to fly out and see us.

I don't regret leaving (other than I left family up there) and I doubt I would go back. There are better opportunities elsewhere.

I agree about climate...would never choose Mn /WI over WA. No brainer there. :)

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I lived in El Paso, TX and there was a tremendous shortage. You could work 24/7. The westside of El Paso is quite nice and being monolingual on that side of town is acceptable. When I left El Paso, Del Sol Hospital was offering $15,000 sign-on bonuses to ICU nurses. Nurses are generally treated quite well in that area and the cost-of-living is very reasonable.

Currently live in SE Arizona and the hospital needs a few nurses, but not so badly that they need to offer good benefits. We are paid regular pay for all holidays and the retirement plan is horrible!

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