After many long years I finaly achieved the gole I had in highschool of becoming a nurse the only problem I have now is finding a job. The local hospital came to us (the students) asking us to come work for them as soon as we had our license in hand and thats what a lot of us did. Only it became very evident that not all of us were welcome.
The next question I have is, What Nursing Shortage?????.
From where I sit it looks like the hospitals are picking and choosing who and why they hire from a lot of persons who were dooped into believing they were NEEDED, WANTED as well as DESIRED in the profession. Who is accountable for saying we have a nursing shortage when all we have is a large population of our older nurses retiring from the workforce only to come back on a perdium wage while collecting soc.sec. and a pension to boot, verry often in the same position they just retired from at the very same hospital. ????????????
When do the new recruits get a chance???:frustrated:
Before you say it; I've already heard it all. "They are offering experience in the workforce." "They are qualified for the position." "They know how to handle an emergency." etc. etc. etall:::::
My questions in responce are when are we going to be allowed to GET the experience WE will need to handle the same emergency?
OH YEA what are these retired and rehired nurses going to do when it is there turn to be the emergency? and none of us have the experience NEEDED to handle it???????
Why call it retired? That is obviously not what they are doing. What they are doing is grabbing a bigger piece of the pie. Can't realy blame them for wanting that, what with doing the same work and getting MORE pay for it. :smoking2: Whats not to like about that situation?
That question I believe I have an answer for.= HIGHER HEALTHCARE COSTS, as well as sundry of other things like unnescessary strain on the soc.sec. system. ect.ect...well I think you get the drift.

Thanks for letting me rant. Lot of good it will do, and yes I've already talked to my state REP.

sincerly: DOOPED in MICHIGAN