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Are you telling me that all of these nurses are lying? What are they gaining by lying? The media is the one lying! Nursing shortage my butt. They do have a reason to lie! They want your money! Hey believe what you want, you will see for yourself! And you are going to regret it! I regret becoming a nurse... - Nurse Jobs | Indeed.com Where's this so-called shortage? - I can't find a nursing job! - CNNMoney

Continuously hiring new grads. Why are they "continuously hiring" at all? Because the turnover is astronomical? The hospital I work at hired 3 RN's in 2015. Most of the nurses I work with have been working there since the hospital opened in 1997. Sounds like the hospital you work at is a real gem.

You will get in but you won't be able to find a job when you graduate. The nursing shortage has been over for a while now, and nobody wants to hire new grads no matter what your grades in school were/are. Facilities don't want to hire smart people, they want to hire what I call "yes man" people. "Yes man" people are people who will do whatever you ask them to do, no explanation required. Smart people tend to want to rationalize before performing a task, hospitals don't want nurses who rationalize. If they tell you to do something that you're afraid will kill a patient, just do whatever it is they tell you to do, then pull the curtain and pretend that it never happened. Also, I have a friend who is nurse manager, and he said in June healthcare is going to change drastically. When you're admitted to the hospital, you will have 3 days to recover. If you don't recover in 3 days you will be sent to an LTACH or LTC to finish recovering in a subacute setting. What does that mean? A hospital isn't going to need half of the nurses that they currently have. Nurses are already getting laid off and hospitals aren't hiring. You are going to pay a fortune for a degree you will never be able to use. Not needing as many RN's in the hospital setting is suppose to save hospitals a lot of money. Whatever jobs are available, the competition will be fierce and chances are they won't want new grads because it costs too much money to orient them, especially when there are tons of experienced nurses who are out of work. If you are determined to have a career in healthcare your best bet would be to go the NP or PA route. Because just like the hospitals are doing away with a lot of the nurses, they are also going to be replacing a lot of the MD's with PA's and NP's. Once again because they want to save money. It all boils down to greed.