Yahoo once again touting RN Jobs

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Once again Yahoo is telling folks to drop the cubicle and go into nursing. I mean come on!!!!!!!!!! If they would check things out they would see many new Grads cannot find work now. They are proclaiming the mysterious 600,000 RN shortage again....................

http://education.yahoo.net/articles/cube_busters.htm?wid=1

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Well, just like anything in the general media, you have to take it with a grain of salt.

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Specializes in Tele, ICU, ED, Nurse Instructor,.

There has to be shortage somewhere. The jobs for Traveling Nursing has picked up.

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There has to be shortage somewhere. The jobs for Traveling Nursing has picked up.

I'm wondering if this has to do with the lack of experienced nurses in specialty areas. The job market in my area is terrible. New grads from two years ago and even some experienced nurses cannot find jobs, yet the ICUs at my hospital hire travelers. I'm thinking it must be cheaper to hire an experienced traveler than it is to train new employees. I don't know for sure... just a thought.

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Specializes in LTC, Psych, Hospice.

Just today in the Sunday classified there were 30 + job offerings for RN/LPN. I'm in south Louisiana

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Specializes in Tele, ICU, ED, Nurse Instructor,.
I'm wondering if this has to do with the lack of experienced nurses in specialty areas. The job market in my area is terrible. New grads from two years ago and even some experienced nurses cannot find jobs, yet the ICUs at my hospital hire travelers. I'm thinking it must be cheaper to hire an experienced traveler than it is to train new employees. I don't know for sure... just a thought.

This may be the problem. I work in an ICU as a float nurse with some inexperienced travel nurses. It is horrible. They do their time and leave or resign if they are needed. Dont get me wrong I have worked with some good travel nurses. I have seen more bad than good. I would train a new nurse any day because they know it is hard to find a job. We have new grads from Dec 2009 just been hired at our facility in the last 2 months. It is rough out there. Dont forget hospitals are trying to make productivity. Some nights on the unit work short and some nights are fine.

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Specializes in Tele, ICU, ED, Nurse Instructor,.
Just today in the Sunday classified there were 30 + job offerings for RN/LPN. I'm in south Louisiana

I believe you. There are 90 nurses applying for those jobs and only about five are being hired.

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filled out a appliciation for the heck of it today to see what would happen , GOT a REJECTION email from the HR after 6pm, and no one is in the HR............ it is a Sunday.

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filled out a appliciation for the heck of it today to see what would happen , GOT a REJECTION email from the HR after 6pm, and no one is in the HR............ it is a Sunday.

This proves the fact that not all postings are actually real positions needing to be filled, or they already know who will be filling them. Terrible.

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Hospice Nurse LPN,

My guess would be that all of the available jobs are for experienced nurses, not new grads. Do you know if they were offering these jobs to new grads?

Just curious.

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Specializes in critical care, PACU.

I have also noticed a trend in ICU positions where they used to say 1yr experience required and now it says 2yrs.

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They need to stop the lies! Lies all lies!

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