Too many new grads??

[hope3456]

The CC in my town has MORE than doubled the number of students they admit every year......they admit every semester and then admit to an accelerated program in the summer. They have been doing this for about the last 4 years.

The university in the neighboring town also started an accelerated program, and the CC in the town about 50 miles away in the neighboring state also started admitting 2x a year, starting this year.

So anyway, the hospital I work at is on a hiring freeze right now, they said the 'overestimated' the number of nurses that they would need. A new class of RNs just graduated in Dec....I feel kindve sorry for them - especially since most of them are 'non traditional' students who are invested in the area and relocating would probably be really hard with families, ect. The hospitals in the neighboring towns also don't have many openings.

Is this happening anywhere else? I know alot of schools are admitting 2x a year now instead of just 1x. I think it might start getting hard for new grads to find jobs.

[Diahni]

for lower pay, too?:angryfire

[hope3456, ASN, RN]

Yeah the smaller hospitals (in rural areas) can't/dont offer the pay/benny's or stable shifts like larger facilities.

Also it can be hard to find housing,ect

[TheCommuter, BSN, RN]

No, but you can "insource" nurse labor. Think: Phillipines.

Not only the Philippines. There's also Canada, India, Nigeria, and other places that produce nurses.

[GadgetRN71, ASN, RN]

here's a thought, guys - so many people are worried about their jobs getting outsourced to other countries. Well, you can't outsource a nurse, can you?

Sure they can. Well, not exactly "outsourcing". They can(and do) bring in nurses from other countries instead of paying the nurses already here more and improving working conditions. Nothing against nurses from other countries-they're just trying to improve their lives. I just don't think looking outside the country is the answer.

[hope3456, ASN, RN]

I just hope that when a hospital hires 'experienced' nurses from abroad, they aren't being hired in lieu of the 'new grad' RN's already here in the U.S.