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[armedoldhippy]

Last year I was contacted by a head hunter who wanted me to work at their hospital in Boston. She sounded kind of desperate. I told her I would consider it if their hospital could help me by providing housing or housing assistance due to the costs. That was basically the end of the conversation.

not "desperate" enough, doesn't sound like. i'll bet renting someplace to live would have FAR more than eaten up the pay they offered. construction workers get a per diem for room/board when working on road projects. place in NC asked me to go back to work the other day. $85 a day per diem & $40 per hour. eyesight isn't up to doing x-ray quality root passes any more...dammit!

 

[Amynamous]

not "desperate" enough, doesn't sound like. i'll bet renting someplace to live would have FAR more than eaten up the pay they offered. construction workers get a per diem for room/board when working on road projects. place in NC asked me to go back to work the other day. $85 a day per diem & $40 per hour. eyesight isn't up to doing x-ray quality root passes any more...dammit!

It would have been a permanent position so the tax per diems go out the window. But I agree, they weren’t desperate enough….yet.
I suspect another brutal year for healthcare workers, but with the focus on Emergency Room and Operating Room rather than Critical Care. I’ve been reading about ERs filling up to record capacity as people who have been putting off care since the pandemic began are finding they can’t put things off any longer.

I was recently reading an article about this very issue in Nova Scotia where they are 1000 RNs short and they’re predicting upto a 60% turn over in staff in the coming year due to consistently long hours/forced overtime, stagnant pay and extreme burnout. I don’t believe it’s that bad here in the US(yet), but the sharp increase in job postings show we’re headed for some challenging times ahead.

I have a friend who’s a dual US/CA citizen, but not licensed in Canada, but would move there in a heartbeat if licensing weren’t an issue. Canada makes it extremely difficult, expensive and time consuming for US/International nurses to practice there, so they’re kind of stuck like a hockey puck trapped inside of a Zamboni. US hospitals have the advantage of increasing pay, offering large sign on bonuses as enticements and using travel nurses. Also, I believe they’re not above enticing nurses from abroad and making it much easier and quicker to get licensed.

Edit: Sorry for the off topic rant.