jayrn14

Well most nursing schools are in university hospitals and the ones that are not are joint ventures between community hospitals and community colleges. Hospital do receive financial benefit from nursing schools. However, more to the point here is that they are well aware of the new graduate problem, yet they keep on increasing enrollment. The way the system is set up does not make any sense. If hospitals do not want to train new graduates, then prepare new graduates to start working day one. Let the students get the training they will need to start working as an RN during nursing school. Or if they do not want to do that, then decrease enrollments to what the market can handle. I would have rather not gotten into nursing school, then to work as hard as I did just to get out and be unemployed.

Like many of the other new graduate nurses who post and review this board I am a new graduate nurse who is still unemployed after five months. Nursing is a second career, one that I had high hopes that would provide me with both emotional and financial rewards. As of right now it as provided me with neither. I must admit if my expectations are disappointed it's partially my fault. No not that the job market sucks and that hospitals and to a lesser extent other nursing facilities do not want to take on new graduates. My fault was not doing my research and seeing that this has been going on for a few years and likely would be occurring after I graduated. That being said, here is the hypocrisy that I find so offensive, the same hospitals that do not want to spend money on new graduate training, have no problems taking young students money, when they attend their nursing programs. Of course the hospitals will say that the nursing programs are separate entities, no rational person could buy that argument. Nursing schools and hospitals are so tightly connected they are like siamese twins. Many of the administrators have dual roles as nursing deans and professors. Of course this behavior, where the uneducated consumer is taken advantage of goes on all the time in our economy, in fact it's how our economy was formed and thrives. I just think that maybe they should stop selling nursing as a noble profession, where people genuinely care and describe it for what they have made it, a business, with ethnics no different then any other business.