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Factor One: Expectations vs. Reality

This can be a common affliction of the newly graduated/licensed nurse. They\\\'re being exposed to the now-common message of the massive nursing shortage - which is estimated to develop to over a million nurses through the year 2020 - and contains to some degree adopted a life of its own, leaving the expectation that with such a critical shortage there will be job openings aplenty.

Though one million is a nationwide number, this doesn’t mean that each state - or community, town and city within a given state - is every bit impacted. For example, it is also estimated that by 2020, 44 states and also the District of Columbia will face a critical nursing shortage. What exactly if you are licensed within the six states where the shortage isn’t as critical?

Also, just because there is a nursing shortage doesn’t mean that hospitals, clinics, etc. will hire just anyone. Most nursing schools have been expanding their programs and therefore graduating more students; once licensed, these students are put into the applicant pool that the hospital needs to choose from. So even with a shortage there\\\'s still a substantial amount of competition for available slots.

Many newly graduated/licensed nurses possess a bulletproof sense about themselves and seem to think they hold all of the cards; this really is not always the case. For example, if the nurse looking for employment really wants to work among the prime shifts, emphatically states that they won’t work weekends, or won’t work on a specific unit then these non-negotiable demands are met, they will limit their job choices.

I understand of at least one young nurse who complained to her fellow nurses on a forum about just such a circumstance. Imagine her surprise when nearly together the other nurses replied, tell her to obtain a grip. By using those expectations it might be a while before she’d find a match, unless of course she was expecting the hospital to shift a current employed nurse to a different shift simply to accommodate her preference.

Sometimes a nurse must wait some time for their plum assignment, as with the case of wanting to be a travel nurse. We’ve all seen the ads of these often long-term employment positions, where an agency provides the chance to work in various cities, states as well as countries, thus quenching the roving spirit of some nurses. However, in order to qualify for most travel agency positions a nurse generally needs at least two years of hospital-based nursing experience.

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