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Talia Simon is a graduate of nursing at Elmhurst College last May. Her vision is not to have any difficulty in finding a job, for her it will not take years to find the opportunity in spite of the global nursing scarcity. She was able to submit an application in different hospital but she was not able to get hired in medical centres at Chicago. Also, her former classmates experienced the same thing. Simon said that in last year's class, majority of the people had jobs lined up before they graduated, but this year, only 5 or 6 people out of 52 class population get hired. Vicki Keough, acting Dean of Loyola University Chicago's Marcella Niehoff School of Nursing stated that with the current recession they are certainly considering a decline in openings for new grads. The President of the American Association of Colleges of Nursing, Fay Raines, said that the group hasn't finished any surveys to gauge the economic bang on nurse hiring, but she was informed that this year's nursing school graduates have a hard time looking for jobs than normal, particularly those in larger cities. They started to influence nursing students to start looking for occupation in advance and to regard to start job in a smaller town. According to Sharon Canariato, a member of Illinois Nurses Association, "The recession's blow on nursing has come in the form of a one-two strike. Most of older nurses have retired, some returned to the field, while others who formerly worked part-time have transferred to full-time to help their family finances." Some hospitals have declined the hiring of new nurses. Loyola University Health System had experienced job lay-offs for a few months. At present, they are now in the process of employing 40 new nurses. At the University of Illinois at Chicago and Rush University College of Nursing, enrolment is increasing. Lisa Rosenberg, Director of Academic Advancement of Rush University College of Nursing, said that the existing nursing job crisis will expected to be relieved once the economy becomes stable. According to experts, the recent problem of the health-care industry shows that there will be no adequate number of nurses who will replace the retired ones in next 10 years or more but the demand for nursing services will remain rising. Last year, the Metropolitan Chicago Healthcare Council assessed that the Chicago region will require 3,000 new nurses a year until 2014, but it anticipated that only a part of that number will bond the work force every year. [via] |
