RN jobs in Denver area hospitals

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Just wanted to let you all know that jobs here are getting VERY hard to come by. I'm still in school and will graduate in March 2011. I just spoke to a friend who graduated 3 months ago and he said so far only 2 people in 30 from his class have been able to find jobs. One of which was in TN and not Denver. The other was a person who was working at the hospital as a CNA where she got her RN job. Even the others that were working as CNA's still have not secured an RN job!

I am working as CNA now, and probably 70% of the other CNA's that I work with are going to RN school as well. I have heard rumors from my hospital that once we graduate we have to go through the HR department to get an RN job, and that nothing is for sure.

So it looks as though the slowdown in the economy is now starting to hit the hospitals much heavier now. Given that Denver area has a billion nursing schools, this just adds to the problem.

How are things in your neck of the woods?