Nursing issues

Register Forgot your password?

Fewer new nurses find jobs in hospitals

« 
Previous topic
|
Graduate Nurses
|
Next topic
 »

You need to be logged in to get access to the forums. You can do so here

Author Fewer new nurses find jobs in hospitals

Egg

(offline)

  • Joined: Jul 2009
  • Location:
  • Posts: 14

Tue Nov 10, 2009 6:11 pm

Fewer new nurses find jobs in hospitals ONLY 1450 newly-qualified nurses have won jobs with NSW Health in its first round of offers this year - barely half the 2683 who applied and down 12 per cent on 2008 - in a development likely to force more of the highly trained graduates into the private sector. Julie Robotham HEALTH EDITOR http://www.smh.com.au/text/articles/2009/10/23/1256147885815.html Ok let’s get serious, so this is the situation after not being successful on securing a new grad placement at public and private hospitals. The question is - what can the remaining 1233 nurses in NSW do to secure a job. As many job descriptions require at least a year of experience to a postgraduate qualification. I would like to hear from nurses who have actually been in this situation, who have gone through the hard yards and secured a hospital job. What advice can you provide for us.

Ronnie

(offline)

Ronnie
  • Joined: Oct 2006
  • Location: XXXXville
  • Posts: 34

Nov 11, 2009, 01:22 pm Last edited Nov 11, 2009, 01:22 pm update #2

It really is a crazy situation indeed. I am employed in Queensland and face the day to day grind of increased patient acuity and larger and larger workloads. The RNs on the ward are leaving and being replaced with EENs and AINs meaning there are huge problems with skill mix. The shift towards team nursing in this state does not help.

Management says that there are fewer RNs in the system thus leading to the current situation of massive workloads. More staff are cutting their hours as they cannot cope with the huge stressors of full time work.

Nursing is not alone though. Apprentices in all trades often find it hard to get a start as well. The current state of the NSW hospital systems financial woes would not help either, although I would assume every hospital system in every country on the planet would be in a similar situation.

My advice would be to either start applying interstate or to try and secure casual on call work as a pool nurse. Try and explore your options. Aged Care, Community Nursing, Practice Nursing, Radiography, Rural etc. When you graduate a hospital job is not the be all and end all. If you keep your options open, employment may happen.Look at teaching as another example. You graduate, and if your lucky, you may get a casual job or a posting out to Woop Woop. You have to spend a bit of time in the system before you end up where you really want to go.

It is a very difficult thing to come to grips with I suppose. We are all told that there is a nursing shortage.You spend a huge amount of money and time on a uni degree to find once finished, it doesn't necessarily lead to a job. I do know many very successful nurses who did not do a Grad program but I acknowledge that this does not help ones predicament.

modified: Wednesday 11 November 2009 1:32:29 pm - Ronnie

pentyn09

(offline)

  • Joined: Dec 2009
  • Location:
  • Posts: 1

Dec 11, 2009, 12:45 pm Last edited Dec 11, 2009, 12:45 pm update #3

Thanks for your posts. They are really very cool, very wonderful

modified: Friday 11 December 2009 12:48:44 pm - pentyn09

You need to be logged in to get access to the forums. You can do so here