I can hear it now, individuals looking for new grad nurse jobs are saying “There aren’t any new grad nurse jobs!”, “A sure thing for job security? Then where are all the new grad nurse jobs?!”, “How can I get any experience if no one will hire me?”, “Where are all the new grad nurse jobs I was promised? All positions are for experienced nurses?”, “Nursing shortage? What nursing shortage?”, “Why is it so hard to find a job? I’m a nurse for goodness sakes!”
In some situations these are common complaints heard from people searching for new grad nurse jobs right out of school. In this situation let me give some advice and a dose of encouragement. Take a deep breath, there are new grad nurse jobs out there!
New Grad Nurse Jobs
The job market, in some places, is very tight. While it is disheartening, we need to realize that this isn’t completely new. Nursing, as a profession, has been here before, to a degree. When I first began my career there seemed to be few new grad nurse jobs, nurses were being laid off, allied professions were being cut…this was over 2 decades ago now.
To all nurses both seasoned and new grads, there IS a nurse shortage, we are all just caught up in a strange situation currently. Trust me…there is a nursing shortage! And it is going to get worse.
New Grad Nurse Jobs
The problem seems to be that, like every other business around, hospitals are having to make the same gut-wrenching budget cuts as everyone else. It’s hitting so many areas of nursing right now…students, faculty, schools, hospitals…everyone is affected by the current economic situation. Hospitals, whether they’re short on nurses or not at the moment, are dealing with a cash-crisis and are taking a close look at new grad nurse jobs.
The reality is no matter how great you were in school, or how many extra hours put it, or how long you worked in a hospital as a tech before you went to nursing school, it still takes a good year or so to turn a new grad into a fully independent nurse. This is simply how it is.
New Grad Nurse Jobs
They will spend tens of thousands of dollars on you, above and beyond the salary they pay you, just to get you to the place where you actually “earn” that salary. Don’t get offended by this, your hospital knows that you are a very worthwhile investment. The key is to be open to accepting a job in an area where you hadn’t planned on working. These just aren’t typical times right now, especially for new grad nurse jobs.
You may not believe it right now, but most of the skills of nursing are learned after you get out of school! In school, you are learning the “science” of nursing, the “theory” of nursing. Upon graduation, you will learn how to apply that science and theory in the real world of nursing.
Your clinical rotations were not the real world. Nursing requires judgment skills; judgment skills are the result of experience backed by the theory and science you learned in school. It just takes time.
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