Why with hundreds of unfilled positions is no one hiring new grads.
What is the logical reason behind this? Is there a logical reason?
Has this ever happened in the history of nursing before?
I feel like I am not apart of the nursing community, I feel as if I am viewed as lesser and treated in conjunction with that stereotype.
I feel like we are being alienated and black balled. None of us can start our careers if we can't get a chance from anyone, and if we are the future it seems not so smart to make us all offended and scorned because at some point we are going to be needed. If there is no new grads coming in, there are no future nurses being secured.
We are all going to be indifferent to the hospitals that would not help us start our career, so when I get experience and in the future when those same hospitals have no nurses because they shunned a whole generation of nurses. Most of the new grads I know feel the same way.
The number of nursing students complaining about clinical time I'll bet are using the BSN as a stepping stone to get to the "big money specialties" as they consider bedside nursing beneath their four year degree.
Actually it is the opposite here. The more clinical time you have, the more chest thumping rights you have and BSN students at 2 of the schools in town have the most. Lately, the best thing that has happened is employers are looking at where, when, and how long your clinical rotations were in school as part of the employment search process. It shows the student nurses the value of both clinical and didactic work. I now tell students how important clinical time is in the application process.
I would like to see a system of hour recording like there is in APN programs. If you are a CRNA, you record your clinical time (surgical) to meet the requirements of your program, but all the hours are recorded so that future employers can really see how much time was in practice. Quality is another issue, but it is a start.
Specializes in Critical Care, ED, Cath lab, CTPAC,Trauma.
Really? You must be at a good school. I have had a different experience. In general I think it's sad that nurses who graduated nursing school are trying to get away from being a bedside nurse as fast as they can.
If it cost so much money to train new grads than don’t pay us full salary…it’s that simple. If nursing is truly your :redpinkhepassion, how much you get paid should not really matter (I have student loans too).
It crushes me whenever I call a recruiter regarding a RN job they reply "Sorry we are not hiring new grads right now"
I went to LPN school. Worked three years in LTC. Worked WE's in hospital while going to fast track RN school. I got a job right after graduation. My orientation consisted of "Here's the supply room, here are the telemetry monitors, if you need help reading, ask. These are your three patients." The next night I got six. Now granted this was 20 years ago, but it would be not different now, except probably would have had to work WE's somewhere in LTC. That's why they are not hiring new grads. IMHO
I'll admit I am not a nurse, nor even a nursing student yet. I've been accepted in to two separate programs, an ADN and a BSN program. I've been working extremely hard for the last two years getting pretty much perfect grades through all the pre-reqs and testing, and finally got accepted. Now I come here to get an idea of things and see all these people who are graduates with no jobs for months to years after graduation.
Passionate about the position or not, is it even worth going to nursing school? I don't overly want to go to school, graduate with debt (though hopefully not much), and then not find a job in a career I spent 2-3(ADN vs BSN program length) busting my butt to graduate from. I understand the economy is bad, and won't improve for many years to come, but I don't overly want to commit myself to 3 years of nursing school and end up not ever even being a nurse.
Find a tech/CNA/ect job in a healthcare setting and your chances for getting hired after graduation should increase exponentially (as long as you are a good employee that is). Now, that's not to say that these positoins are always easy to come by either, but you have some time now to look for one so get on it. I graduated in May, had a RN job by June at the facility I was already working at as an aide. I saw what I was heading into about 18 months before graduation (laregely due to AN!) and finding a hospital job was priority #1 from that point on. Classmates who understood the same thing now have RN jobs as well. Those who didn't/couldn't/wouldn't do not.
Surely there will be some who post they found jobs w/out prior clinical/hospital experience. That's great! But many will agree; they got their first RN job from having prior CNA/tech experience.
Specializes in Critical Care; Cardiac; Professional Development.
Getting the first job is very much about who you know and very little about anything else. Get a tech job in a hospital or an externship or a hospital sponsored scholarship. Treat EVERY clinical interaction as if it were a working job interview. Let everyone know when you are graduating and ask if you can use people as references. And then keep in touch with them so two years down the line when you actually graduate they still remember you.
The market where I live is dismally saturated. I graduate in this coming December. I did all of the above things along with school and state level leadership positions. I have had five interview opportunities at three different hospitals. Of the first three of those interviews, two offered me the position. All three of those interviews were offered to me due to making an impression on someone on the inside and being recommended for hire before the internships even posted to the public. I canceled the other two interviews because I accepted an offer. Pretty much ALL of these invitations to interview were due to the impression I made when in contact with that institution. Only one was from a blind application submitted with everyone else online.
It is all about what you do in the years PRIOR to applying that matters.
When weighing out whether to continue through nursing school, I suggest you look at the alternatives you would consider if you gave up nursing. Research if they are having any better luck as new grads getting hired. Usually the answer is no. The rhythm and wealth of our country and even of the world is changing. Any field you go into is going to be difficult, probably for many years to come.
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Actually it is the opposite here. The more clinical time you have, the more chest thumping rights you have and BSN students at 2 of the schools in town have the most. Lately, the best thing that has happened is employers are looking at where, when, and how long your clinical rotations were in school as part of the employment search process. It shows the student nurses the value of both clinical and didactic work. I now tell students how important clinical time is in the application process.
I would like to see a system of hour recording like there is in APN programs. If you are a CRNA, you record your clinical time (surgical) to meet the requirements of your program, but all the hours are recorded so that future employers can really see how much time was in practice. Quality is another issue, but it is a start.