RN Boom to bust in california

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The nursing industry has really shot itself in the foot in california if you ask me. After years of importing nurses and passing less than stellar nurses what we have now is an assess of new grads who will may have to relocate out of state to areas like the midwest and texas to find work. The numbers of new grads applying for a handful of newgrads position is just mind numbing and i suspect this coming year will be even worst as the new batch graduates competing previous new grads who are still without acute care experience. I wish you guys the bests. I wonder if the east coast is the same.

while it's true California may be in a lot of trouble, California has set up pt to nurse ratio lawS and we still have too many nurses. I suspect each June probably about 1500 to 2000 nurses graduate it's reach a point of supersaturation of nurses. I m a clinical instructor n my students are telling me that some hospitals they have talked to are offering new grads 18-22 an hour! I was on the interview com for our new grad program. We had over 400 application for 8 spots last spring. The nursing schools needs to vet out more students and the boards needs to shut down offshore nurses till we can find middle ground. If you are having problems dowN south then the only place left is the midwest.

Maybe So. Cal pays less the northern Cal, but we hired 6 nurses into ICU this year, 4 of them were ADN new grads . . starting pay is $32/hr. And, hate to tell you this, but all four of the new grads got their job in ICU because they were outstanding in their preceptorships . . . . the jobs were never posted publicly . . . many, many new grads get hired based on their final preceptorships.

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Specializes in Emergency, Trauma, Critical Care.

I was a new grad in the Inland Empire this year and started at 32/hr. It's just a lack of available jobs unfortunately. Many nurses who were part time went to full time, many retired nurses or stay at home moms went back to work because their spouses loss their jobs. No job is immune to the economy regardless of the role.

Things will get better in a few years, the problem is now and there is no easy solution.

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Specializes in Peds/outpatient FP,derm,allergy/private duty.

I don't think it's fair to say that "schools are passing people that are not going to be good nurses". The standards are set by the schools, the student either meets those requirements or he or she does not. You pass the NCLEX or you fail it. How is a school supposed to be clairvoyant and know who is and is not going to be a "stellar" nurse?

The answer is, you don't. And I would never hope to have an instructor who transmits their biases to their students.

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How can the baby boomers retire when most of them need to work to live? Not all baby boomers have a paid for house, are debt free, with children who are self supporting, and have a nice, adequate steady-flow retirement income to look forward to. So many are one paycheck away from moving into their cars, if they even own the car.

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Yep, a lot of baby boomers are going to have to keep working until they just can't anymore.

How can the baby boomers retire when most of them need to work to live? Not all baby boomers have a paid for house, are debt free, with children who are self supporting, and have a nice, adequate steady-flow retirement income to look forward to. So many are one paycheck away from moving into their cars, if they even own the car.
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