What The Bleep Happened To The Shortage?

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i live in boston, i graduated from a well known school of science with a bs in health sciences and then got my adn . i am more than qualified to work in a great hospital but i still can't find a job where i want to work so i have to ask...what the bleep happened to the shortage???????? :argue: every time someone says "oh, you won't have a problem getting a job as a nurse, there's such a demand" i just wanna kick them in the stomach but instead i say "oh no my friend, there are more nurses in ma than the states knows what to do with". i feel a little betrayed, schools don't tell you that the shortage is over in ma and go get a bsn because thats what hospitals really want and that's if you can get them to look at your resume :down:. does anyone else feel this way or am i just bitter that there is no shortage! :banghead:

Same problem here around the San Francisco Bay Area in California! Got my BSN from a private college and still no job..... I am staying positive though! New grad programs start up again soon.

Take care.

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Specializes in ED, Cardiac Medicine, Retail Health.
On my very first job interview, there was never a mention of grades. Grades don't matter. What matters is that you pass the NCLEX exam, pass the hospital exam and get ready to work.

I've seen the so call "A" nurses. By in large they don't want to get their hands dirty and they think they know it all. They are dangerous. A "C" nurse will get her hands dirty and she works hard and is much the better nurse.

My husband is a college professor who teaches engineering students and he has always said that a "C" engineer makes the best engineer opposed to the "A" engineer who doesn't try as hard.

Successs is 1% inspiraton - 99% Perspiration. I agree.

Your painting all A students with a very broad brush. There are A, B, and C GPA nurses who are good and bad. Some may equate your statement to grade envy.......:twocents:

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Specializes in LTC, Med/Surg, Peds, ICU, Tele.
Your painting all A students with a very broad brush. There are A, B, and C GPA nurses who are good and bad. Some may equate your statement to grade envy.......:twocents:

That's what I was thinking. :rolleyes:

I doubt if anyone has done a controlled study proving 'C' nursing students become harder working, more fabulous nurses than those who got 'A's. That's one of the more farfetched statements I've read in a while...:rolleyes:

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come to beautiful Ohio! we have a shortage here and the hospitals in my area do hire new grads!

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Specializes in Telemetry.

The shortage is in small towns. The shortage is in rural areas. I work in a large urban Level 1 Trauma Center. They want experienced nurses. We have nursing students come to do clinicals, they are all having a tough time believing that they are not going to walk into the job of their dreams directly after graduation. A lot of the new grads will probably have to spend a year or two out of state or in a small town before a hospital job opens up.

If you all keep trying the dream job will show up, just maybe not for a couple of years.

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i live in boston, i graduated from a well known school of science with a bs in health sciences and then got my adn . i am more than qualified to work in a great hospital but i still can't find a job where i want to work so i have to ask...what the bleep happened to the shortage???????? :argue: every time someone says "oh, you won't have a problem getting a job as a nurse, there's such a demand" i just wanna kick them in the stomach but instead i say "oh no my friend, there are more nurses in ma than the states knows what to do with". i feel a little betrayed, schools don't tell you that the shortage is over in ma and go get a bsn because thats what hospitals really want and that's if you can get them to look at your resume :down:. does anyone else feel this way or am i just bitter that there is no shortage! :banghead:

i don't think there really is a shortage, never thought there was. there was a time with nurses didn't chose to work because of the stress, the work load, the respect from mds in some rare cases...etc. hospitals say there is a shortage so they can run short. it is propaganda...nothing more, nothing less. there are jobs from 11-7am., or 7pm until 7am.nursing schools are pumping out nurses, doubling up on numbers. having day clinicals, nights. some are going to simulated clinicals mostly, hiring more instructors...it has to end sometime and it will. but not in all cases are there jobs just any where any time. those night shifts are tough. good luck. in some areas it is who you know...which isn't fortunate but the way it goes. i would go to seminars, continuing ed courses, and make friends, meet people, talk, have a card in your wallet with our email, phone, address and education to hand out. ...good luck.

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That's what I was thinking. :rolleyes:

I doubt if anyone has done a controlled study proving 'C' nursing students become harder working, more fabulous nurses than those who got 'A's. That's one of the more farfetched statements I've read in a while...:rolleyes:

:yeahthat:

Agreed. I graduated Cum Laude from my school's chapter of the Commonwealth Honors Program, & don't think myself any more or less of a nurse than classmates who may have struggled to get C's. That is most definitely a farfetched statement.

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Specializes in telemetry, med-surg, home health, psych.

Move to the sunny South !!!!!! In Fla. and Ga. there are many opening for new grads at all major hospitals.....

The pay won't be as good as in Boston, but the whether makes up for it !!! The cost of living is much lower, too.....

just a thought if you are desperate and able to relocate....

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I teach the periop 101 course in an Atlanta hospital, and the new nurses that we hire have all graduated with honors. Don't know why, but maybe the nursing schools are easier or we are just interviewing some really bright people (nurses). I have some new grads who have several degrees.

What makes a good nurse is the motivation. If you are in it for the money, you are making a big mistake. There's not enough money in the world.

Hospitals want to make BS for supervisors and managers, Directors and high level they want Master's prepared nurses. I have known some hospitals have managers who don't have an advanced degree, they just happened to be at the right place at the right time or showed qualities or experience that would compliment the facility or department. There is no distinguishing good or bad nurses by grades, you never know what transpired when these people were going to school. Don't rely on grades alone to judge whether someone is a good nurse or not.:twocents:

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Specializes in telemetry, med-surg, home health, psych.

I have never seen an application that asked for grades or honors that were earned at school.....but then I have not job hunted in quite some time.....are they really asking about grades received in school now???

I don't see where it means diddly if you got an A or a B or a C......sometimes the very studious ones were not the best nurses that I remember in school....sometimes they were.....

just my .02

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Specializes in telemetry, med-surg, home health, psych.
i live in boston, i graduated from a well known school of science with a bs in health sciences and then got my adn . i am more than qualified to work in a great hospital but i still can't find a job where i want to work so i have to ask...what the bleep happened to the shortage???????? :argue: every time someone says "oh, you won't have a problem getting a job as a nurse, there's such a demand" i just wanna kick them in the stomach but instead i say "oh no my friend, there are more nurses in ma than the states knows what to do with". i feel a little betrayed, schools don't tell you that the shortage is over in ma and go get a bsn because thats what hospitals really want and that's if you can get them to look at your resume :down:. does anyone else feel this way or am i just bitter that there is no shortage! :banghead:

do you think you are overqualified? maybe requiring more $$ than they want to pay???? just a thought, i thought there was a great shortage, too....there sure is in the south......we have an ad in the paper all the time....we are constantly hiring new nurses, some stay, some don't....but usually work short staffed....unless this is all propaganda to keep us all working short-staffed...someone mentioned this, now i am starting to agree....:banghead:

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I have never seen an application that asked for grades or honors that were earned at school.....but then I have not job hunted in quite some time.....are they really asking about grades received in school now???

I don't see where it means diddly if you got an A or a B or a C......sometimes the very studious ones were not the best nurses that I remember in school....sometimes they were.....

just my .02

the first reason that I went to nursing school was to work at a medical center where I had been a nutritionist for 15 yrs. I loved it there. Half way through my husband he wanted a divorce, I moved back home, had to commute, my best friend died, I had no job at first...it was horrid. My grades were not then as important but just getting through it. So my average got me out of nursing school, to the boards which were easy for me. The hospital wanted grade average to be above mine so I went somewhere else. So my grades did count...for that particular job.:imbar

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