RN shortage

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Really, do you think there is a shortage of RNs where you live. Have all of the RNs recently graduated found jobs? Is it a ploy to bring in more immigrant nurses???

There is a shortage of nurses with BSNs from legit programs who are willing to work the floor. There is a surplus of nurses with dumpster degrees from online or for profit colleges, who don't have the critical thinking skills.

Wow!

Where is your proof?

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There is a shortage of nurses with BSNs .

So hire ADN's.

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Specializes in PeriOp, ICU, PICU, NICU.

I think everyone is running away from the bedside. Seems like every other person including new grad are signed up to climb the ladder and get the heck out of the perils of the bedside.

As far as working short, in many places I have worked it is done on purpose. You show up to work and several nurses are placed "on call", ancillary staff told to stay home or float to another unit because they alway feel we are over staffed. You need to be maxed out and then some when it comes to a patient load before we "qualify" for a staff member to come in. They don't care if you don't eat lunch, get any breaks or are working like a dog.

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Specializes in "Wound care - geriatric care.

There is so many nurses right now likely there won't be a shortage for many, many, many years to come...

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Specializes in Medical-Surgical, Telemetry/ICU Stepdown.

The only evident shortage I've seen is for temp nursing jobs offered by agencies. The agencies are spamming the web with millions of job ads. This is presumably because they charge the hospitals over $100/hr but pay you only $40+. When I apply for a full time job with benefits generally i don't get called. I have 9 years of experience and my resume is strong. Working with temp agencies is not for everybody. They can be quite predatory. Some nurses love them others can't stand them. I have been successful working with agencies my standard of living went up because money is good plus you are never bored. Keep in mind even if you are the best nurse in town there are millions others who have your skills plus they are flooding the market with foreign nurses educated overseas. If you want a smoking hot resume you must go to grad school. There is no escaping this in the end...

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Specializes in Med/Surg, LTACH, LTC, Home Health.
Can you really earn your degree online? I'm not talking about the RN-BSN bridge programs. I mean legitimate BSN or ADN? I didn't think that was possible.
I earned my ASN online in an LPN-RN bridge program 7 years ago. Continued on with the RN-BSN afterwards.
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Specializes in Med/Surg, LTACH, LTC, Home Health.
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Wow!

Where is your proof?

Yes! Where's the proof? I earned my ASN and BSN degrees online (2010 and 2014 respectively). I've helped to save quite a few a few lives, some very recently in areas that I was not trained to work in. Surely, it wasn't just my knowledge earned from my in-class LPN program from 1984-85 that gets all the credit.
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Specializes in Flight, ER, Transport, ICU/Critical Care.

I'm getting lots of recruiting calls.

ED/ICU Speciality --- parts of Cali, the Midwest, parts TX, regionally FL

They are not offering the moon, stars — yet.

Nor, are they offering to transmute my mundane miserable life into one of cosmic glittery goodness through an iridescent, obscene amount of money — so, I will have to pass. Actually, moneys not the reason, but I will post when pay rates top $100 hour+ and include private furnished paid executive no tax housing with 48 hr guarantees & strict OT structure with no floating.

:angel:

I think the experienced nurse bedside market will always be available. It's the crap conditions/pay that keeps some areas short.

And while I think education is great, I, too, think we will see a lot of APRN/FNP market glut and that makes me sad.

Eventually hospitals will will figure out they have 99 problems ....

:angel:

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There is so many nurses right now likely there won't be a shortage for many, many, many years to come...

I think with the retirement boom it will even out or even become a shortage. Right now, probably 70% of our night crew is nearing retirement in the next 3-5 years. And the number of new nurses leaving the profession altogether is something to consider. I think the latest research I read was something like 15%.

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Specializes in OR, Nursing Professional Development.
I think with the retirement boom it will even out or even become a shortage. Right now, probably 70% of our night crew is nearing retirement in the next 3-5 years. And the number of new nurses leaving the profession altogether is something to consider. I think the latest research I read was something like 15%.

Just because they may be reaching retirement age doesn't mean they're going to be able to retire. Some lost their retirement savings when the economy tanked in 2008. Others may not have saved anywhere near enough to actually be able to retire. Some may be supporting adult children who have been having difficulties.

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Specializes in Specializes in L/D, newborn, GYN, LTC, Dialysis.
Just because they may be reaching retirement age doesn't mean they're going to be able to retire. Some lost their retirement savings when the economy tanked in 2008. Others may not have saved anywhere near enough to actually be able to retire. Some may be supporting adult children who have been having difficulties.

And others are "sandwiched" between dependent elderly parents and their children who are having a hard time making ends meet.

And yet, others may not want to retire. Some people find work satisfying and work long past their "shelf life" so to speak. Especially those nurses who have jobs that are not as physically grueling as most beside jobs can be, like case management. I know case managers and NPs/Midwives who currently are, or plan on, working into their 70s.

So the newer ones wanting their jobs may have to wait a while longer.

There is no shortage of nurses, but there will be a shortage of jobs for all the fast-tracking NPs who don't want to bother spending their time in the trenches, working bedside. That, I think, will be a real problem in the very near future. It's already happening some places. I know of one NP who cannot find a full time position as an advanced practice nurse and is working bedside to pay her tuition off (as well as her other bills)

There is a shortage of nurses who believe that to be a good NP you actually need to spend time being an RN first. What they don't already know, is, the market for NPs in some pockets of the USA is becoming saturated. So, before I spent all that time and money to be an NP, I would first make darn sure there is a sufficient need in my area, or be willing to move where there is.

The so-called "nursing shortage" serves one demographic rather well: The nursing schools who want students and tuition $$$ no matter what the true market is or IF their students can find jobs or not.

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Specializes in Float Pool - A Little Bit of Everything.

There is a huge shortage where I live. There are 3 community hospitals here and they are all short staffed. Nurses in my area work an average of 1-2 extra shifts a week. Some volunteer and some are voluntold.

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