Group One background checks in Texas - Page 5

Do hospitals use Group One for all allied health employees? or just nurses?

I believe that it us for all types of employees. They even use it for the people who apply to be a volunteer at a hospital. Group One also has non-medical co's as well. Their web site is www.gp1.com if you want to look at the members list.

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I have been considering moving to Texas. However, after reading this thread I am not sure I want to get involved with employers who utilize these questionable practices. I would think that this would be illegal and if someone ever pulled this stunt on me, I would sue them in court for defamation of character.

Somehow they operate under the Fair Credit Act. If you are an RN, I don't see how you wouldn't find a job here. There are hundreds of positions open in the hospitals. I was telling my husband about all this and he said "You solved it!!! Group One's why there's a nursing shortage; they're putting all them out of work!! (Along with vendictive managers who abuse their power!!)

Yes, I could easily find a job. However being a part of a system I believe to be unfair is another. I am a very outspoken person, if I find something to be wrong I speak up. I don't know how long I would last in an environment such as this without eventually becoming black balled myself.

As has been said here: being a good nurse is not necessarily the same thing as being a good employee.

~faith,
Timothy.

Most employers do background checks in one way or another to make sure that prospective healthcare employees have the backgrounds that they advertise. I would not worry too much about this unless you have something to hide.

The trouble with Group One is you may not even know if you have 'something to hide'. A manager can dislike you and put you down as a 'do not rehire' which is a black mark on Group One. Even if your credentials are great and evaluations stellar, its the manager's opinion (or HR or anyone in power) that goes to Group One. Just one example. This background check organization is being used in a very vindictive way to blackball nurses who are outspoken or who do not kiss the azz of TPTB..

I know soooo many nurses in DFW who send out scores of applications and never get called...only to find out later somebody has bad mouthed them for no good reason other than personal pettiness. I had to quit a job with short notice because my family situation changed and I lost my babysitter, explained the situation fully. They put me down as a 'do not rehire' which insinuates I'm a bad nurse, which I am not.

Some nurse managers even use Group One to threaten threaten nurses...ie stay and do a double today or I'll charge you with abandonment and DNR you with Group One.'

The DNR on Group One has an ominous tendency to limit one's chances of finding work in the area, which is just what its intended to do.

This sounds incredible until you've seen it happen to friends and coworkers.

If that is the case, then it is a shame that hospital corporations would not take the time to determine facts from fiction. With the shortage for qualified Nurses, one would think that adequate time would be taken to get the straight scoop.

Sounds like one would not want to work for the hospitals that operate in this shoddy manner. There are still many good hospitals in the area.