Query to UHC listserv re: employment opportunities for ...



Summary of Responses from UHC listserv

April 2009

What is the current state of employment opportunities for graduate nurses at your institutions? Are positions available?

What are the opportunities for newly graduated nurses in specialty areas, such as pediatrics, or critical care areas?

|SUNY Downstate Medical Center |Opportunities for newly licensed RNs are very limited in any |

| |clinical area at this time; we are seeking to hire experienced |

| |nurses into the few vacancies we have in order to provide better |

| |support to the junior staff already in our employment. |

| |The best opportunity for a newly licensed RN is in post partum at|

| |this time. |

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|Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania |We are hiring into all of our areas (we don’t have peds, but we |

| |do have ICN) as positions open, but our numbers are much lower |

| |than in the past. Our nurse extern program had 48 last summer, |

| |this summer it’s 12, and they are part-time (24 hrs/week). |

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|University of Kansas Hospital |We have some positions available for new graduates this year but |

| |most are on the acute care areas. We did hire a few into |

| |critical care and PICU but these were students who had been |

| |working at KUH as aides during school. |

|Main Line Health System |Our vacancy rate is very low as well but we are also hiring |

| |grads. We routinely don't hire straight into ICU but rather hire|

| |them into a "two step" program where they start on telemetry and |

| |then transfer to ICU. I haven't had a grad hired onto our small |

| |peds unit yet in this role. |

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| |Our vacancy rate is down; however, we are continuing to hire new |

| |grads into all areas of patient care, including ICU. |

| |At University of Virginia, we are hiring fewer new grads as well,|

| |hard to tell at the moment what the final number will be. |

| |Application numbers are certainly up. |

| | |

| |Several hospitals in our area are under hiring freezes or laying |

| |off nurses, so the number of experienced nurses applying has |

| |increased. |

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|University Medical Center |In Tucson, Most hospitals have a hiring freeze. At University |

|Arizona |Medical Center, we were the last to initiate the freeze which |

| |began in March. The only new grads that were hired were those |

| |with contract commitments like student nurse externs from the |

| |summer externship program. All summer externships have also been |

| |put on hold this year as well |

|Vanderbilt |We are hiring 118, a much smaller group for the summer cohort |

| |than usual. No one for the Women’s Health track, 42 CC, 54 Acute |

| |Care (25 med & 29 surg), 22 Peds. |

|Univ. of Kentucky |We are hiring at Kentucky. Do not need as many peds as usual, |

| |only 5 vacancies this Spring I heard. Other areas are down a bit|

| |but still hiring |

|University of Colorado Hospital |We are continuing to hire, since this is our only pipeline for |

| |recruitment here out west. And we LOVE our Graduate Nurse |

| |Residents…they continue to transform our environment by their |

| |energy, their intellectual capacity, their excitement in |

| |evidence-based practice, ability to collaborate with MDs and |

| |their willingness to be very engaged in their units! |

|MCVH-VCU | |

| |We are still hiring new grads but not the volume we usually do. |

| |We hire new grads in all areas. |

|St Mary’s Hospital |At this point we are not hiring new grads into any positions, not|

| |even those who we have invested in as Nursing Student Externs. |

| |Disappointing to say the least |

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|Yale New Haven Hospital |same with us. Not as many positions, looking to "promote" our |

| |student assistants (aides) into GN positions so not hiring as |

| |many from the outside. No openings in pedi. |

|University of Chicago Medical Center |We currently have only a few positions open overall. We have |

| |already hired new grads into the positions that would accommodate|

| |them. We do not hire new grads into the MER (Adult ED), PER (Peds|

| |ED) or the OR's. Occasionally the ICU's will be able to take a |

| |new grad, but this depends on the experience level of the current|

| |staff. |

| |PICU requires experience. NICU is able to get Level III |

| |experienced RN's at present, so this is what we are hiring there.|

|University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics |We are still hiring as well, but numbers are quite a bit smaller |

| |than in recent years. We have hired into OR, peds, crit care, |

| |etc as usual |

|University of New Mexico |We have positions but not as many as we normally have. New grads |

| |can be hired into any area, including OR, critical care, peds etc|

|OSF Saint Francis Medical Center |We hired roughly 110 new graduates from the May 2009 graduating |

| |class. Having said that, we have added beds, and we are adding a|

| |whole new building in 2010 and we are preparing to staff that. We|

| |did hire new grads to specialty areas. Our new hires will start |

| |once they present their letter from the State that they have |

| |passed boards and can work as an RN, license pending. We are |

| |hiring into all specialty areas, with the exception now of no |

| |positions in OR. |

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|Grady Health System |We only had 10 RN positions at the beginning of April. All for |

| |Med-Surg. This is extremely unusual for us, a 953 bed trauma |

| |center. |

|UCLA |Currently open |

|Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center |Yes and yes to all of your questions |

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|University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics |We are on a hiring hold for the time being. We might be hiring |

| |for adult critical care later this spring /summer. A lot depends |

| |on when our FY 2010 budgets are approved by our Board of Regents.|

| |We are in the midst of voluntary budget reduction efforts at |

| |present. |

|Duke Hospital |Approximately 100 graduate nurses hired to begin this summer (all|

| |areas, but numbers (vacancies) are less than in previous |

| |summers). Approximately 80 summer nurse externs expected. |

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