rural nursing job market new grads

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Hello. I want to go to nursing school but I am nervous about the job market when I graduate. I'm currently attending a university for a degree in biomedical sciences but I'm in all honesty feeling burnt out from the biology and chemistry classes. All my general education requirements are fullfilled and I'm taking all chem and bio. I've been reading on this and other forums about what seems to be an abysmal job market for new nursing graduates. I was considering applying the the local community college for nursing but I'm having reservations about that. Is there a decent market for hospital nurses in rural areas? I don't really care where I live. I just want to work in a hospital. I've already trained as an EMT to find out there isn't a market and I dont want to do that again. I want to work for an NGO in the long run and I know nurses can work for MSF. I'm basically trying to figure out what I'm going to do because I know I can't continue going full time and taking all bio/chem and spending literally every non eating/sleeping/class/lab hour either in the library or walking to/from it. If anyone can give me advice I would really appreciate it.

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Biology, chemistry, anatomy, physiology.... etc. will burn any and all college students out. You will not escape that in nursing. Actually nursing college will burn you out much faster than other majors IMHO.

The market is bad. It began badness the second half of 2007, and continues. It will not improve any time soon. There are thousands of nurses without employment. However some do manage to get good jobs - just not very many.

I do not advise people to go into nursing. I advise against it.

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Specializes in ICU.

Agreed. At this time, the market is soooo tight. Explore other hospital tech jobs like radiology, ultrasound, etc. I don't know how their market is, but it might be a good option.

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Specializes in ICU + Infection Prevention.

Nursing school will burn you out just as bad. There are reams of information to memorize and comprehend. In addition, expect hours of busy work. That's all before you get to skills/sim lab and the 24 hours of clinical shifts a week. You'll also need a part time job in healthcare while in school to give you a chance in the tight job market.

Nursing is not an easy, backup, or copout major.

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Specializes in ICU.

I should have added biomedical engineers. Heavy demand in hospital, dialysis, or maintenance settings.

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Thanks for the advice. I don't find biology or the sciences overly hard. I just find them boring and time consuming. I want to become a PA and I figured I would work as an RN for a few years and then finish out the rest of my schooling. But it seems like the job market doesn't exist so I should probably just go for CNA and finish out my schooling now. I do well in my classes and I have no issue memorizing large quantities of information. It's just more fun when it's actually directly medically pertinent rather than just writing out chemical equations over and over lol.

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Also if you want PA, you better hurry and get that done. Everybody and their dog who decided against med school is going to get their PA right as we speak, as well as many NG nurses who find that the "nursing shortage" is/was a scam. I expect that one to be a non-starter soon as well, could be that it really already is.

Very like a hot tip in the stock market, you are too late.

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