Nursing degrees have long been touted as the golden tickets to immediate employment. But recent nursing graduates like Anna Lendabarker are coming into an unexpectedly tight job market.
Everyone told Lendabarker a nursing degree would give her lots of choices and let her do whatever she wanted. Now, she's discovering that's not really the case.
"I do feel a little let down at this point when searching for these jobs," she says. "You look and [you see] you need six years of experience — it's like, this is just getting kind of ridiculous."
Wait — haven't people been talking about a nursing shortage for years?
Haven't all those English majors been kicking themselves, thinking, "Ah, I should have gone to nursing school?"
It turns out the situation is a bit more complicated.
Rhys Gibson graduated in the spring of 2009 with a nursing degree from the University of Illinois, Chicago. He didn't land a job until that December.
At a recent career workshop for graduating seniors, he described his feelings.
"I thought I was the cat's meow and everything, because I'm an African-American guy coming out of here — I was waiting for the red carpet," he says. "I had the grades, had the experience, to an extent but not the practical experience as a nurse working on the floor."
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