Starbeck

I graduated last May and passed the exam in June 09. I am 55 and still looking. Age discrimination is an expected obstical and yes harder to prove. I am confident that we will all be employed by2012-13 when the economy is better and this excess in new nurses flips around. Correct me if I am wrong, but I hear there are more than a million unemployed new nurses. The schools are cranking them out and the hospitals new nurse orientation programs are the chocking point to employment. Sure there is a shortage for experienced skilled nurses but not new ones. There are 10 to 20 times the applicants than there are openings in San Diego area. Once these nurses (boomers) see retirement as feasible there is going are rapid swing but when that happens depends on some fella named Berneke. 2 to 3 years maybe five. Keep your CEU's up in the mean time.

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hi, i am also a new nurse since june 2009 and i have yet to get a position here in san diego. i am wondering if i am missing something? i am retired us naval after 28 years with a strong medical background. i am 55. everybody in the country hears about a nursing shortage that is except new nurses and the recruiters in san diego who are overwhelmed with applicants. this is a nice place to live and many new graduates are migrating here. yes and there are many who had planned to retire and are not, for economic reasons. the economy is in a hiccup but i am wondering when the hiccup will change the new nurse orientation openings. i am sure age is always factor but presently the difficulty is more due to the economy. i have managed one interview out of over 100 resumes. i am sending resumes for out of state & overseas positions as well. i have formatted my resume many ways. i'm sure that an associate degree in nursing and being 55 is a major reason i am not getting selected for an interview. i will be certainly finishing bachelors and counting on things changing in the next few years. i see i narrow my availablity to work as a nurse in san diego in the near future and here "you need to move" frequently. some facilities in san diego are getting 600 to 800 applicants for 30 to 40 positions. having a bsn and being in your twenties is what i am competing against. am i missing something if a plan to stay in san diego? respectfully

hi, i am a new nurse since june this year and i have yet to get a position here in san diego. i am wondering if i am missing something? i am retired us naval with a strong medical background. everybody in the country hears about a nursing shortage that is except new nurses and the recruiters in san diego who are overwhelmed with applicants. this is a nice place to live and many new graduates are migrating here. yes and there are many who had planned to retire and are not, for economic reasons. the economy is in a hiccup but i am wondering when the hiccup will change the new nurse orientation openings. i have managed one interview out of over 100 resumes. i am sending resumes for out of state & overseas positions as well. i have formatted my resume many ways. i'm sure that an associate degree in nursing and being 55 is a major reason i am not getting selected for an interview. i will be certainly finishing bachelors and counting on things changing in the next few years. some facilities in san diego are getting 600 to 700 applicants for 30 to 40 positions. having a bsn and being in your twenties is what i am competing against. am i missing something if a plan to stay in san diego? respectfully