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October 10th, 2012
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Why Nursing School Grads Have Trouble Finding Jobs
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More Men Trading Overalls for Nursing Scrubs
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Why Nursing School Grads Have Trouble Finding Jobs
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By Genevieve M. Clavreul, RN, Ph.D.  

Have you heard the one about the newly graduated and licensed registered nurse that can't find a job? Apparently nursing forums are abuzz with this news. But how can this be? Haven't we all read story after story trumpeting the alarm that our nation is facing a critical, and some would add crippling, nursing shortage?

 

So which is it? Do we have a nursing shortage or not? Of course most, including myself, would state an emphatic "yes" to having a nationwide, not to mention international, shortage. But I would also mention that there appear to be several factors that affect these unemployed nurses.

 

   
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Some recent posts on our forum include:

"I am a new nurse graduate in Florida and got hired for 23.07 base pay. I will be working night shift and will be making 3.50 additional for nights."

"I am African American and currently hold the position of Associate Director for Patient Care Service/Chief Nurse Executive for VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System in Pittsburgh, PA."   

 

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More Men Trading Overalls for Nursing Scrubs
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By Tess Vigeland

How far would you go for a financial comeback? Heading to North Dakota's oil boom and other stories of post-recession striving.

 

IN 2007, Kurt Edwards figured he would be stacking and racking 80-pound boxes of dog food and celery in the back of a grocery store for the rest of his working life. And he was fine with that.

 

But that June, after nine years on the job, layoff notices arrived on the warehouse floor at the Farmer Jack store in Detroit where he worked. His employer, Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company, closed the Farmer Jack chain. Today he still does a lot of lifting, but of people, not boxes. Mr. Edwards joined the ranks of former warehouse, factory and autoworkers trading in their coveralls and job uncertainty for nurses' scrubs.

 

 

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