If 43 percent of new nursing grads can't find employment, is the military an option?

[Pookyâ„¢]

Even a few years ago when the recruiters came to school (I am a school nurse and I sat in during one of their presentations), the US Army was not accepting any new applications. Things were that bad a few years ago, but this year is a little better.

Just three days ago, Kaiser Permanente in Los Angeles just open up, for the first time in years, new grad program.

nursing school are flooding the market with new grad nurses, and the older nurses in the hospital are not retiring fast enough.

While it is almost impossible for new grad to get any job that requires experiences, most nursing homes will take on a new grad nurse, and it will train them.

Not all nursing home are what you think – many of them are rehab hospitals. Patients do get better and are discharged to their homes.

After one year of experience, many nurses leave and apply at regular hospitals, and are employed that way.

So if you only came to work at UCLA Ronald Reagan emergency room or ICU as your first job, you set your sight too high. Be humble and take whatever job that is offered to you, and in meanwhile, with experience, you can always transfer.