5 Best States for Nursing Jobs

to honzee 98, If it makes you feel any better, i am 49 and in my 2nd year of nursing school. Decided on a career change. As i got older I wanted to be in a proffesion where I feel I am making a deference. Sold my business. School = poor$$ which is the hardest part. Learning new things when your older means younger brain!!! I am really happyand looking forward the the new future!!!

i am a pharmacetical assistant,i wish to have a nursing degree in canada or usa,i am looking for am authorization .

I am an RN (previously LPN) w/ 2 yrs experience in Med-Surg /Tele and home health in Miami. Have been looking for a job for 6 months. There are jobs posted but no one gets interviewed w/ less than 5 yrs experience. Does that sound like a shortage?

why do you keep on complaining? don't you know that we Filipino nurses here in the Philippines who are also nclex passers are eager to work in the US? we are waiting for the lifting of visa retrogression.

I rest my case: these comments below from across the US show beyond any doubts that there is no such thing as nursing shortages. What exists now and before is that nurses do not get paid enough for the nature and value of the work they do. If nurses were paid higher professional wages as they should there would be always enough nurses to do the jobs. The cry of nursing shortage is a smoke screen to increase nursing programs, crank out more nurses, so salaries won't grow. Some places are paying now less than 10 years ago! What does that tell you? I wouldn't be surprised that soon nurses will have to work for food! This grim scenario would be very different if the only access to the nursing profession were by means of a Master's degree, like Physical Therapists. At least a BSN. However with RNs being often replaced with LVNs no wonder salaries are so low. Little countries in Europe like Portugal for instance made the Master's degree in Nursing the only port of entry into the profession. Why can't the US with much greater resources elevate the quality of the profession? The profession lies probably in the inertia of nurses leaders and the obstruction by Administrations and Capital which will always have to try to crush Labor even when it compromises the quality of health care delivered. There is been a lot of opportunism by health care administrations in the current economic situation. They are increasing their nurses work loads, putting a hold on hiring, despite the fact the need for health care services are the same or higher. They are essentially acting just like the banks, hoarding cash at the expense of harder labor by those employed and the suffering of those unemployed.

DO ANYONE KNOW THE STARTING SALARY FOR NEW GRADS IN MANHATTAN, NY?

always great too know since i am looking into relocating from nj to pa. :)

Let's not forget budget cuts in NY. Maybe someone else mentioned it but the "demand" is not what you may imagine in our fine state of NY. Paterson is putting freezes on EVERYTHING. Public freezes equal less private sector jobs. Additionally there are those ready to retire RNs that just cannot do so because of financial insecurity. RECESSION. My psych patients don't even have extra napkins right now... Remeber what they said about Stats? They can be used to sensationalize and manipulate information. No offense to whoever wrote this little blurb on what's happening in the real world BUT I think you should do some more research and validate what is actually happening. The article is misleading and confusing to new nurses who cannot find work. I feel like I'm reading an advertisement but I can't seem to find the fine print... BTW a hospital in Miami offered me 21/hr-- I made more than that selling eye cream at Bloomingdales.