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As I stated "news articles from all over the web.." just as an example : Why Can't New Graduate RN's Find Jobs - Is Nursing Shortage Over? Never said any of the content was a "fact", but was making an implication of new grad joblessness on a national level. Rhode Island is sort of a blip on the radar screen in that respect. The "figures" came from Intro to health @ CCRI from the Instructor, based on past students that reported employment or lack there of. I think its from the workforce innovation or something where they follow up.. It was trend over 2 yrs from those specific students that chose to report . Never tried to insinuate ALL grads were unemployed.. The Governor addressed RI nursing shortage in one of the Projo articles recently and went on to say what I already posted.(increase faculty, increase enrollment) Parent's of recent Nurse grads were at the assembly and wanted to know "what shortage?" as their kids were having trouble getting employment, as usual to politics they had no answer to that, except to basically say what you mentioned, jobs were there, but they insinuated that new grads were acting spoiled in their search only looking for days or only looking at particular facilities..I think Politicians are full of crap and money is being invested in the wrong stuff and should be going into more preceptor ships to stop the 1 yr exp cycle... I wasn't bashing the nurse profession or student nurses or trying to instill fear in those just accepted to the program. I hope everyone in RI gets a RN job right after school and lives happily ever after. A simple google search will in fact address the rest of the states in this country, including hospitals that no longer have new grad programs, and job postings that state "must have 1 yr exp" and hundreds articles about new grad RNs that can not get employed due to the above factors. I have a B.S in health administration worked in Florida Hospitals for 5 yrs. So my experience on that side of the coin is they only care about money .. making it and saving it.. they don't care of patient care or the nurses that care for the patients.. it sux and thats why i quit it and got a CNA, but the unfortunate wages don't agree with raising a child.. So we find ourselves at that crossroad "which way do i go..which way do I go." LOL just a p.s for those that already graduated : stay in new england there are no higher wages or better job security than here!

Yes, the only way to get employment these days id if you personally know someone. Sad for the entire nursing profession that all new grad programs and preceptor ships were dried up last couple of yrs. News articles all over the web are writing about it and the 'shortage" and how increasing faculty, increasing nurse student body will fix the problem, but no one has addressed the fact that the "shortage" is due to new grads not getting jobs anywhere due to not having "a min of 1 yr exp." CCRI grads from 2008- 2009 about 75% still can't get a RN job. RIC BSN grads same problem. Some wrote to the news channel asking politicians about this supposed shortage and why it relates only to needing seasoned exp RNs.. Their lame response was : "Oh there are jobs out there, but most people are looking only at hospitals and only day shifts... Employers have become afraid to spend money on training new nurses thinking that they will only work for them 1 yr and leave." Who puts these kind of people in charge with this mentality boggles me.. LOL Ohh as far as past rejections .. One was for Newport,GPA 3.8 A's in the 3 "priority classes" one for Lincoln .. and something similar like that happened last Fall .. one GPA was 3.5 got rejected, then they last minute opened a period in Jan. and let a student in that got C in Anatomy and Dosage (where admission says B- or higher required) and the student that had been rejected earlier semester was never even called or given an opportunity to reapply for that other period instead it was handed over to someone else with lower grades.. Seems a little shady over all .. Something just isn't right in hoo-ville... I had been accepted this past fall, a couple times before in past yrs but dang life keeps getting in my way .... but found that the clinical schedule is not "single mother friendly" Couldn't find a daycare open earlier than 6:30 am and i would have had to leave my house at 6 am to make it to wherever at 7 am on time.. then each semester gets progessivly earlier 6:30 am , then eventually 7-7 again problem to have to find someone to come to my house to stay with my kid for an hour bring him to daycare, find someone else to pick him up and stay till i got back around 7:30 8 pm .. Sounds just to crazy and complicated... Makes me think though if second shift or "Nurses hours" were available for child care how many more parents could work.. Any way Good luck to those who are finally in!!

Just curious to the poster who got in Lincoln 2011 with a 3.2 overall gpa, What were your 3 grades for anatomy, physiology, dosage? If the school is saying that October is the most competitive, and you got in with an overall 3.2 but other applicants I know applied this enrollment with an over all 3.8-4.0 and an A in the 3 above classes used for priority tie breakers for admissions, got rejections.. Really makes me wonder what CCRI is really doing in the "competitive admissions" selection. Not saying you don't deserve to be in the program or your not a good student, but CCRI nursing staff wrote the rules and set the standards, yet they are not following their own rules based on the fact that your gpa is lower than others you got in and they did not. They were already busted some time ago for taking bribes to bump students on the long waiting list to the front of the line over others. Now that they claim to be "performance based" we look at numbers/scores only and take the highest first is obviously not true. Sad really all the hoops you got to jump through just TO BE ACCEPTED never mind complete the program, and now new grads will be unemployed for quite some time after school.

Hi, I was wondering how everything is going with this program so far. Looks like those that posted on here started last march and are about 9 months in now. I too am looking at New england tech. Every other program has been accredited there, and if you take a loan out to pay for school and they don't get accredited the program will shut down. This is something the government will forgive a loan for, so you can't lose in that respect. If it follows through then pay 50 dollars amonth for 10 yrs. LOL I think a nurses salary can afford that. I have been applying to state colleges trying to finish a nursing degree. I am academically at the point where I need core nursing courses only and "selectivity" is not become about grades any more. I have had a 3.8 gpa in all courses I have ever taken. 115 credits worth. (those required for nursing and those required for other associates I have) I test in high percentile for tests; and every yr its a canned rejection letter about competitiveness, limited seats.. blah blah.. and it's buloney, it is a total lottery pick over the inundated number of applications.. competitive over what ? the true test of whether you become a stellar nurse is how you do in the actual programs and how you hack it in the real world after NOT whether you passed arithmetic or got an A in psychology , English and anatomy. it is important to know your ass from your elbow, but getting accepted into the program has not "made" anyone a competent nurse. So the fact that you have to jump through hoops of fire just to GET IN at broke state colleges is ridiculous. People are so quick to assume an expensive college is a scam. not really, you get what you pay for. CCRI you get to share one simulated dummy with 20 other students and get taught by a teacher who is resentful of her salary, and could care less about whether you succeed because the colleges know how many more students are desperately waiting to hop in your seat. They don't even follow their own protocol where "you" think you have worked so hard to study to get good grades in classes that have nothing to do with the daily duties of a nurse, but was enough to get in the program; know that the person next to you that got in had C's in classes that required a B-. No thanks I'll take the teacher that was a nurse for 25 yrs., who chose to teach students her knowledge at a campus where I get my own 25k simulated patient that I can practice skills on as much as I need to.. after all I paid for it..