Will the nursing shortage ever end?

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Hello I am taking courses at my college and I am very interested in nursing as a career. I did some research and bls.gov estimates a 22% increase for the demand of nurses through 2018. My question is after 2018 will there no longer be a demand for nurses? Thanks

Specializes in Hospice / Psych / RNAC.
My question is, when is it going to begin?

:yeah:

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Specializes in Peds Medical Floor.

Well I got 2 rejections from jobs today, 3 the other day.....:crying2::crying2:

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Specializes in ED, Long-term care, MDS, doctor's office.

No demand for nurses for quite some time now! Last year I had a hospital interview: 108 applicants for 12 positions (4 full-time, 8 part-time).

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The nursing shortage, (or over saturation) seems to be heavily location dependent. Do research in YOUR AREA to determine the likelihood of jobs when you are done with college. In my area, there are a TON of job listings...but I'm just starting school. My hope is they are still there when I complete my education. No guarantees, of course. In other areas of my same state, there are no jobs to be had.

Don't look at government statistics alone. Look at location specific outcomes....

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:) Ever worked in rural Texas???? :D

I wish....I really miss TX....

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Specializes in OB-Gyn/Primary Care/Ambulatory Leadership.
The nursing shortage, (or over saturation) seems to be heavily location dependent. Do research in YOUR AREA to determine the likelihood of jobs when you are done with college. In my area, there are a TON of job listings...but I'm just starting school. My hope is they are still there when I complete my education. No guarantees, of course. In other areas of my same state, there are no jobs to be had.

Don't look at government statistics alone. Look at location specific outcomes....

In my area (Denver, which is a notably difficult area for finding a job) there are tons of listings, too. But for every listing, there is probably half a dozen, if not more, nurses vying for the job. So seeing a lot of listings is not a good indicator of whether it's an employer's or nurse's market.

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In my area (Denver, which is a notably difficult area for finding a job) there are tons of listings, too. But for every listing, there is probably half a dozen, if not more, nurses vying for the job. So seeing a lot of listings is not a good indicator of whether it's an employer's or nurse's market.

Well then I will add that the many nurses that I know have also communicated to me that there are a lot of jobs. The school I am hoping to attend has 100% job placement as well. These things altogether add up to my belief that there is currently a good job market in my area for nurses. I did my research and interviewed many nurses as well as searching threads here on AN. It won't be the same everywhere...which I guess was my point.

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Specializes in Critical Care.

So called nursing shortage is the excuse the hospitals give for working you short staffed with high patient ratios. The real reason is to make more profit by overworking their staff; although my boss had over a dozen applicants for a night shift job and had never seen that many apply. We are getting people from IL, from rural areas and even got people from MN and Canada in the past when their was a glut of nurses at least in those parts of the country.

But even so, we keep losing nurses even as we hire more because they are moving on to greener pastures looking for something better. Alot of our staff are young and going back for their NP as well!

So the reason so many RN's can't get jobs is because the hospitals are on hiring freezes and would rather get their regular staff to pick up and work overtime! Also I've heard of places where they just increase the staffing ratio and tell you to deal with it. Then after there's alot of turnover, they turn around and lower the staffing ratio's again. Is it because they wise up and realize its not working? Or is it because they got what they wanted, the senior staff to leave so they can hire new grads for less money? Also there's a trend in HR to pay the new RN's more money than the older ones, even for the same eval score, at least in the non-union hospitals!

But I have to say our facility is known for keeping its older staff and we do have alot of experienced RN's. I have been at other hospitals and you only see really young new RN's. You wonder if its the blind leading the blind! I met an agency nurse who said Aurora was doing that to its RN's. Harassing and then firing the older RN's and she saw the writing on the wall when they were hassling her even though she had perfect attendance (can you imagine!) and got out and took agency.

I'm not criticizing new RN's, I still remember how difficult it was for me and how much I didn't know so its not fair to them or the patients to leave them without some experienced RN's.

I always go out of my way to teach and show them different medical things that come up that are unusual. And even after all these years I'm still learning something new all the time. Even the doctors can't keep up with all the medical problems and new treatments--that's why they have so many specialties--the pace of medical knowledge is just exploding!

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Specializes in PICU, ICU, Hospice, Mgmt, DON.

uh hem.....second verse same as the first.....

THERE IS NO SHORTAGE OF NURSES!!!!

Thank you very much.....

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Nursing shortage is a myth. If u dont believe me, ask the thousands of unemployed nurses across the nation.

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in 2003 when i became a nurse you could walk in anywhere in shorts and sandals and ask for an application and they would hire you on the spot.

now not so much, no shortage at all where i live in miami, fl lots of unemployed nurses

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Specializes in PICU, ICU, Hospice, Mgmt, DON.
in 2003 when i became a nurse you could walk in anywhere in shorts and sandals and ask for an application and they would hire you on the spot.

now not so much, no shortage at all where i live in miami, fl lots of unemployed nurses

Same here, I started in 1991, we used to joke that the job interviews consisted of "do you have a license, do you have a pulse?..here is your assignment-get started"...we could leave one job, walk out and get hired literally the same day...now, not at all.

I am also in South Florida, but north of miami, Lots of unemployed nurses as well, new grads are taking forever to find jobs,many are relocating. Plus, Florida is notorius for lousy pay....!:mad:

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