Sunday, March 20, 2011

As white-hot nursing market cools, a job is no longer a sure thing - Baltimore Business Journal:

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Business at agencies like his coulr drop further as more hospitals rely on their own staff to help cut Hospitals can pay more in hourly wageds for agency nurses thanfor hospital-employe d staff. Over the next will drop the numberof full-timr nurses hired from staffing agencies by half, to abouyt a dozen, hospital spokesman Justin Paquette said. That is becauser more nurses are staying on boared because they want thejob security, rather than contractinyg with an agency that assigns them to differenrt hospitals. “There are nursing jobs out there but employers arebecoming pickier,” said Caro Raines, a dialysis nurse at an outpatientt center in Baltimore.
When she graduated from the Community Colleges of Baltimore County in Catonsville threeyearse ago, no one had trouble finding a job. Rained handily got a job and a signing bonuw to workat ’s Shock Trauma unit. That is not the case for some nursinghstudents today. “Some are of our gradws are getting jobs,” said Rosemary a nursing teacher at and president ofthe . “But they have to work a littler harder.

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