In today's world we strive to find the best career to support our families or even to accomplish something within ourselves. I did just that; I chose to be a nurse. Since jobs are few and far between, the medical field seems to be improving every day, or so I thought. The demand is so high and yet there are new graduate nurses who can't find work. Why nurses have difficulty finding work after graduation; this answer is written in every job advertisement, they want people with experience. Experience is a huge ask and generalizes what employers want, they want to avoid turnover rates, fill positions that are rapidly decreasing, and need over demand. Which brings us to catch-22: How can you gain experience without the opportunity to gain experience? With nurses in high demand, you would think that new graduates would be able to find a job easily. The idea that is placed in everyone's head is that there are so many positions that need to be filled that we are overburdening our current nurses. In some states this is not the case. Most nurses have applied everywhere and, while looking at job advertisements, have come up against a wall of words. These words resonate on every page, for each add “No New Grads”. The bigger question is: why? Nursing literature reports that the inability to manage a busy work environment, advanced medical terminology, and high patient acuity results in turnover rates of new graduate nurses of 35% to 50% within the first year of employment (Halfer and Graf 150). With such high turnover, it's no wonder why employers are looking for experienced nurses. How can we expect an employer to put time and effort into a new employee, especially a new nurse, when the shock... middle of paper... to do when they can't find a job because they lack experience and they cannot acquire it because they cannot find a job. There is no way to adequately answer this question with the recession attracting new graduates, lack of experience and decreasing job availability. The only answer available is hope, but hope can only take you so far. Works Cited Bhatt, Sanjay. “Business/Technology.” The Seattle Times. Np, March 10, 2012. Web. November 22, 2013. .Halfer, Diana, and Elaine Graf. “Graduate Nurse Perceptions of Work Experience.” Nursing Economics 24.3 (2006): 150-155. Print.Krutz, Annalyn. “For nursing jobs, new graduates do not need to apply.” CNNMoney. Cable News Network, January 14, 2013. Web. November 21. 2013. .