"Smart Is The New Rich" Graduate Nurses Cannot Find Work

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Don't know how to set this up nor even where to begin. So here's a bit of the piece:

"Smart is the new rich, it has been repeated in the media. But when it comes to finding a paying, permanent full-time job as a registered nurse for new graduates from colleges with a major in nursing, jobs for those with no nursing experience are scarce. And numerous registered nurses are being recruited as lower-paid caregivers, a job which may not require any medical training."

http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/11029020-smart-is-the-new-rich-but-newly-graduated-licensed-registered-nurses-cant-find-fulltime-permanent-jobs

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Specializes in Emergency & Trauma/Adult ICU.

Maybe this is how I know I'm getting old ...

I'm young enough to have fully embraced the internet, but old enough that it does not occur to me to get "news" from internet sources not affiliated with mainstream news organizations. Unless I'm specifically looking for input from private individuals or organizations, in which case I accept the limitations of their perspectives.

This "article" (and it pains me to use that term) is a piece of writing published by an internet site which accepts content from "contributors". It essentially says nothing, other than some newly graduated nurses are having difficulty finding permanent employment. It makes extensive use of links ... which I suppose are attempting to substitute for referenced citations.

I could "contribute" an "article" on the mating habits of hairy-nosed wombats ... it would have about as much impact.

What is the point?

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I experienced and am still experiencing this. The author(s) got it right. Finally, somebody got this story right!

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Specializes in neurology, cardiology, ED.

That article may have been true, but it was so poorly written I found it difficult to even read. Why not get someone who knows what they're talking about (and maybe can string together a few comprehendible sentences) to write the article?

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Specializes in ED, ICU, MS/MT, PCU, CM, House Sup, Frontline mgr.

although i understand the need for such a topic, i had a very hard time reading though this article. did the author get paid to write? does this publication have an editor????

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The author should take remedial English classes.

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Specializes in ICU / PCU / Telemetry / Oncology.

I personally would love to read an article about the mating habits of hairy-nosed wombats. Any chance it will be published before the end of the year?? :D

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Someone send it to yahoo! Their editors wouldn't change a thing, but at least the content would be spot on.

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Specializes in Pediatric Oncology/BMT.

Similar topic, better written in my opinion:

"New California nursing graduates find it hard to get hired"

http://www.sacbee.com/2011/12/04/4097980/new-california-nursing-graduates.html

Cheers!

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....I'm young enough to have fully embraced the internet, but old enough that it does not occur to me to get "news" from internet sources not affiliated with mainstream news organizations. Unless I'm specifically looking for input from private individuals or organizations, in which case I accept the limitations of their perspectives.

Altra, I agree totally with your sentiments, and I'm very happy to see that people are noticing this trend. However, it's getting increasingly difficult to identify "legitimate" journalism. Almost every mainstream media source (newspaper, magazine, TV news, etc.) has moved into "blog journalism" (a term that, I believe, defines "oxymoron" better than any other).

All of them are either hiring bloggers to "write" regular columns, or else they've enlisted journalism hopefuls to contribute (for no recompense, or very little) to their news blogs. The result is that you'll see articles that you think are legitimate news, that are anything but.

Case in point: came upon an article on the website of "The Atlantic" (a well-respected magazine) that had been written by one of these "journalists", in which she discussed the "wealth gap" between Baby Boomers and younger Americans. It was in early November, and there was a lot of coverage on the topic because the Pew Foundation had just released an extensive study on generational discrepancy in economic status.

A sharp-eyed reader (not me) had taken exception with the author's claim that the #1 source of income stream for "Boomers" was Social Security, saying that, chronologically, this was impossible. The author, apparently not believing an error was possible, stated that she had taken it directly from the Pew study. She provided a link to the report itself, and a portion of text from where she had gotten her inarguable journalistic "facts":

"Meantime, older adults continue to have the advantage of inflation-indexed Social Security as the anchor of their annual income streams. Today, as in 1984, on average Social Security accounts for 55% of the annual income of households headed by adults ages 65 and older."

My own examination of the actual Pew Foundation study showed that the author had taken journalistic license to replace every mention of "older Americans" with the term "Baby Boomers". In fact, there was not a single reference to "Baby Boomers" in the study, and "older Americans" referred to anyone over the age of 65. The earliest boomers, btw, turned 65 in 2010, and the data in the Pew study was collected in 2009.

I don't even want to get started on how she interpreted the study itself. However, had I been a jobless twenty-something with $100K in student debt, that article in "The Atlantic" would have inflamed me to the point of contemplating irrational acts against anyone over the age of 45.

And that's only one of millions of "news stories" being published under the banners of very well-respected publications that, in reality, are merely personal opinion disguised in news format. The author of the article I mentioned has a regular (albeit small) following that perceives her as a legit financial journalist. None of these publications feels in need of having any of these articles put through the typical fact-checking and editing process; perhaps they feel, because the authors aren't on the payroll, or because they're "bloggers", that they don't have an obligation to provide that type of screening. However, since the publishers do not make a clear distinction between what is generated by their own journalists, and what is contributed by "unofficial" reporters, most people reading some of the more skillfully-written contributions believe that they represent legitimate news stories.

However, in the case of the "article" cited by the OP: that is definitely something on a nonsponsored content site, and very clear that it's not a genuine news article. But it warms my almost nonexistent heart that the author stands to make a serious piece of change from it - it should get tons of hits now that it's been posted on the AllNurses site.

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I personally would love to read an article about the mating habits of hairy-nosed wombats. Any chance it will be published before the end of the year?? :D

My understanding is that National Geographic is neck-in-neck with Vogue for a Valentine's Day pictorial, Paco. Subjects of the article are holding out for the cover.

Personally, I don't understand why you're interested in a story about my ex-husband.

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Specializes in ICU / PCU / Telemetry / Oncology.
My understanding is that National Geographic is neck-in-neck with Vogue for a Valentine's Day pictorial, Paco. Subjects of the article are holding out for the cover.

Personally, I don't understand why you're interested in a story about my ex-husband.

For real? Oh goodie, 2 more months! I can't wait until then ... :heartbeat

... but I would find the equivalent stories about ex-wives much more interesting ;)

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