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11/23 Miss the dot-com hiring frenzy? Become a nurse!
http://csua.org/u/e2k (latimes.com)
"The shortage is expected to worsen as nurses--whose average age is
nearing 50--retire in waves. Those retirements will be in full swing
just as the oldest baby boomers are reaching their 70s ..."
\_ except that nurses actually have to do real work. -tom
\_ so did most of us during the dotcom craze.
\_ Except we didn't get overtime pay. In fact we didn't even
get any pay for overtime.
\_ You could've been a nurse. Then you'd have to work hard
hanging out at the nurse's station. Maybe fill out some
paperwork. Or even bring food to a patient sometimes,
but not too often because the union says thats not ok.
\_ thank gawd for Ah-nold, who is always kicking the butts
of nurses!
\_ A registered nurse makes much more moeny than a nurse.
\_ by "nurse" do you mean nursing assistant, LPN, both, or
predominantly one or the other?
\_ Do you want to wipe the asses of the incontinent old and terminal
AIDS patients?
\_ Then another option is pharmacist. No direct contact with
patients except when you have to man the cash register when the
pharmacy technicians are out.
\_ Isn't that mind-numbingly boring? Measure this, enter data
in computer, measure that, enter data, ad nauseam.
\_ heh... sorta sounds like a bartender
\_ Except the chances are a lot higher you'll kill
people if you're not so great at your job.
\_ In the dotcom hiring frenzy they were actually paying well. The
reason theres a shortage of nurses is because they dont pay that
great.
\_ I like the photo of the one guy there -op
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| csua.org/u/e2k -> www.latimes.com/news/printedition/la-fi-nursewar23nov23,0,3140321.story Large Text Size La rge Text Size Change text size THE STATE Search for Nurses in California Is Feverish The pay is high and the come-ons are extreme as hospitals face a new st affing requirement. By Lisa Girion, Times Staff Writer Competition to hire nurses in California is so intense that some headhunt ers routinely make cold calls to nursing stations at rival hospitals, de sperate for recruits. Others are sending out direct-mail pitches that read like time-share come -ons. Mission Hospital in Mission Viejo, for example, offers nurses a $2 00 gift card just to come in and take a look around. And in one extreme case, a nurse-staffing firm is using a $10-million New port Beach mansion as a lure. "I probably get a call once a week," said Robin Ludewig, director of nurs e recruitment for UCLA . Scrambling to comply with California's first-of-its-kind law mandating 1 nurse for every 5 patients in most wards starting this year, hospitals a re in a hiring frenzy reminiscent of Silicon Valley's lust for engineers in 1999. Arnold Schwarzenegger this month dropped his fight to sus pend the law, leaving hospitals to cope with a labor shortage that is ex pected to grow for decades. "We had a shortage before the ratio," said Sue Albert, who heads the nurs ing school at College of the Canyons in Valencia. Kaiser Permanente and University of California hospitals often exceed the state staffing manda te, and their recruiters say hiring is relatively easy because nurses li ke the more manageable workloads. But most hospitals are forced to use every recruiting tool they have an d invent new ones. One hospital staffing agency, in an extreme example of creative recruitin g, has turned to reality TV. It invited six nurses from around the count ry to work in local hospitals for 13 weeks while living in a mansion not far from the scene of MTV's hit reality show "Laguna Beach." The result is a show designed to tantalize nurses around the country with the joys of nursing in Southern California. The show, called "13 Weeks," follows the four women and two men as they g o about their jobs and get to know one another in the leased mansion. com beginning t oday and hopes to get them on television. Each of the 13 half-hour episodes also features the nurses in their free time pursuing dramatic and daring activities, including kayaking, hot-ai r ballooning, skydiving and go-cart racing. "There's nothing that's scandalous on the show, and yet it's highly enter taining," said Alan Braynin, chief executive of Access Nurses. You see people learning new things, pushing th emselves to the limit. Access Nurses considered 100 audition tapes from nurses, and it didn't ha ve any trouble finding hospital executives willing to collaborate. Larry Anderson, president of a company that owns four Orange County hospitals , said he saw the show as an opportunity to reach a broad audience of po tential recruits. "Most hospitals offer some kind of bonus and incentive system," said Ande rson, of Costa Mesa-based Integrated Healthcare Holdings Inc. Among the cast is Nick Shields, a 24-year-old intensive-care nurse workin g at Chapman Medical Center in Orange. "It's been great," the Missouri native said although, he had to admit, "there's been times when you get homesick or don't want the cameras arou nd." The show highlights the lives of "travelers," US-trained nurses who bou nce from hospital to hospital on 13-week contracts, following the sun, s ki season and shifting staffing needs. The prevalence of travelers is on e indication of the degree to which the nursing shortage has put power i n the hands of employees. |
| en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Registered_nurses bachelors degrees, which makes specialising in f ields such as psychiatry (psychiatric nurse) or anaesthesiology more fea sible, but in many states are not required to do so. Regardless of degre e, they have many hours of clinical experience. cardiopulmon ary arrest, and other serious complications. Higher ratios of Registered Nurses to patients has been shown to decrease certain complications of illness including death in patients. Registered Nurses are educators, managers, executives, therapists, intens ive care experts, symptom managers, professional mentors, researchers an d community members. In hospitals, registered nurses perform diverse rol es such as writing policies, responding to emergencies, managing profess ional, technical and ancillary staff, determining budgets, performing st rategic planning, and supervising construction projects. |
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