Reality Check for Nursing Hopefuls

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Jobs are very hard to get, with 300 or more applicants for each position at some places. It can take years to get your first nursing job. So, if the school is selling you the idea that your going into a "guaranteed" job, your not.

There are thousands and thousands of unemployed new grad licensed nurses who are scrambling to get a job, and the hospitals are upping their standards every day, almost all flat out tell you not to apply if your a new grad, some say if your a new grad only apply if you have a BSN and a 3.5 GPA or better. Almost all positions all the way down the the lowly LTC centers are requiring BSN degrees, and even home health care wont touch you if you don't have 1 year of acute experience, which you cant get unless you have a BSN with a 3.5 average.

If you do not believe what I am saying, then Google "No nursing jobs" and take a look at what people are saying.

That being said, if you still willing to go into nursing, spend years in the most stressful program and then not be able to obtain work when your finished, then god bless you.

Specializes in Med-Surg/DOU/Ortho/Onc/Rehab/ER/.
Jobs are like realsate. Location, location, location.

If you live in the middle of nowhere, where there is one or two schools pumping out graduates, yes you will find a job. If you live in a metropolitan area in a expensive and crowded state or area, no you will not get hired right away. If those one or two schools in the middle of nowhere are CCs then yes the ADNs will get hired.

ADNs here are not getting jobs, neither are BSNs but if a hospital had to choose, it be the BSN hey choose. Unfortunately its true

https://allnurses.com/nursing-news/its-here-bsn-540363.html

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