Posted on 01/09/2009 5:23:45 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
MILWAUKEE — Please, please accept a high-paying job with us. In fact, just swing by for an interview and we'll give you a chance to win cash and prizes.
Sounds too good to be true, especially in an economy riddled with job cuts in nearly every industry. But applicants for nursing jobs are still so scarce that recruiters have been forced to get increasingly inventive.
One Michigan company literally rolled out a red carpet at a recent hiring event. Residential Home Health, which provides in-home nursing for seniors on Medicare, lavished registered nurses and other health care workers with free champagne and a trivia contest hosted by game-show veteran Chuck Woolery. Prizes included a one-year lease for a 2009 SUV, hotel stays and dinners.
"We're committed to finding ways to creatively engage with passive job seekers," said David Curtis, president of the Madison Heights-based company.
Recruiters like Curtis may have little choice. The long-standing U.S. nurse shortage has led to chronic understaffing that can threaten patient care and nurses' job satisfaction, and the problem is expected to worsen.
The shortage has been operating since World War II on an eight- to 10-year cycle, industry experts say. Each time the number of nurses reaches a critical low, the government adds funding and hospitals upgrade working conditions. But as the deficit eases, those retention efforts fade and eventually the old conditions return, often driving nurses into other professions.
"We recently had a hiring event where, for experienced nurses to interview — just to interview — we gave them $50 gas cards," said Tom Zinda, the director of recruitment at Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare in the Milwaukee-area city of Glendale. "We really try to get as creative as we can.
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2 rules of college:
1. Instructor is always right.
2. If you wanna pass, see rule #1.
you are exactly correct.
And it is nothing like factory work, unless you are working on the assembly line underwater with fire overhead and people shooting at you at the same time.
Our Medical system could actually be saved by hiring enough nurses that allow them to work without the resulting burnout.
In addition, an individual can also take a Bachelor's of Science in Nursing (BSN). This would take approximately four years We also make the same recommendation as we did with the (RN), degree it usually takes longer than what is indicated above to complete five or more years so get the exact sciences done before entering the clinical phase.
From a school of Nursing in Houston TX.
I don’t think you know squat. My wife is a nurse and makes huge hourly wages, sets her own hours, and teaches on the side. It’s a great career and one of the few places they recruit white males. My son is law wanted to do x ray technician work, and the hospital promised to put him through school to become a nurse.
Factory work? Hardly. My wife has been doing it for twenty years.
LMHO!
Ping!
Spot on....
Not to mention it takes that long to pay off your student loans! *chuckle*
I cannot work in the facility atmosphere anymore. The bureaucrats and bean counters have made it almost impossible.
I started in nursing when hospitals were mostly private entities and the owners had a vested interest in patients receiving good care.
Then came the big corporations...and it all went downhill. Suddenly...we had to work 12hr shifts, had less personnel to do an effective job....and supplies on the floor were often rationed to a point of being ridiculous.
Burnout became the norm.....and nurses eating their own ...became sport.
It does, but I’m just telling you what our healthcare policy is. Our healthcare policy is designed to prevent people from becoming doctors and nurses. And it’s designed to prevent people from investing capital in facilities and equipment, as well. It’s based on the assumption that you can reduce costs by not investing.
I couldn’t have said it better.
I’m a nurse too, secret, and I agree with Chicken.
Nurses are treated like crap, from the managment to the patients, and by fellow nurses. I’d rather clean streets then be treated like that.
The general public has no clue.
I couldn’t get a job when I graduated and I was summa cum. Hillary decided to make her play for nationalized health care at the time.
I did find work in L and D. I left to go to big pharm, praise the Lord.
No wonder your name is Brilliant! :)
I say BS!! Not here in Arizona. My wife is a nurse, and there is a surplus of nurses here. The hospitals are NOT hiring nurses. Plus the nurses who are working are complaining because they can’t get any overtime.
Part of the reason for the situation here is that CA nurses have been fleeing that idiotic state in droves for some time and coming here. But my wife’s hospital won’t hire any more of the CA nurses.
I agree whole heartedly.
Why?
They aren’t hiring any more nurses at all right now, but when they do, my understanding is that they give priority to local applicants first.
OIC. :)
So funny.
The devil offers you all kinds of things too, to work for him, but non so spectacular as Chuck Whoolery!
/s
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