On 10/29/2011 3:11 PM, BillyZoom wrote:

> I could say something unkind about having 3 very marketable degrees
> and winding up working in a nursing home, but I know all about
> circumstances, etc. What I would say, most sincerely, is that with
> your education even a couple of years of real nursing experience would
> make you a VERY desirable hire as an IT person in the area of
> electronic medical records. Epic is the big push right now and people
> are tripling their salaries by switching into IT. Hospital IT
> departments LOVE nurses.

But nurses don't love IT and EMRs. And how long will it be before
medical/hospital IT departments have to scale back, insist on degrees in
IT, incorporate general facility IT, and push the nurses out. Think it
won't happen? Hah!!




> As for male nurses, in this economy it's about the smartest thing you
> can go into, male or female. Nobody is going to offshore nursing.


Don't bet on that. Although there hasn't been a "nursing shortage" for a
few years now, employers and nursing schools still say that there is and
they use it to justify their odd recruitment practices. In the last
year, there's been another push to bring in foreign nurses to work in U.
S. healthcare, using the nursing shortage lie. Meanwhile, employed
nurses are being cut back or laid off outright, and employers hire less
expensive foreign nurses or middling-experienced newer nurses whose pay
rates are still low. There are many, many, many nurses in the U.S. who
cannot find reliable work, and who have to hang onto whatever work they
find by their fingernails while employers remind them to show some
gratitude for the crumbs they get or talk a walk. That's as close to
off-shoring as it gets in nursing, and damn! It's pretty close!!




> And
> as I've alluded to, starting out as a nurse is just the beginning.
> Many of them wind up as VPs.

As VPs of what?