Beaumont Cutbacks

[fetachz]

I've heard that there is a hiring freeze, and that overtime has been cut. Can anyone who works at Beaumont give a short synopsis of whats going on, and why?

Thanks.

[rjflyn, ASN, RN]

Are these layoffs something that I need to be concerned about? Same thing happened when I got out of Engineering school, except I was 1 year early from when the job field became saturated.

We've been hearing there is a huge shortage of nurses, and I'm sure due to the economy things are tightening up, but if we are THAT short on nurses, how can we already be laying nurses off?

I'm trying to change careers from engineering to nursing, is this something I need to rethink? I likely wouldn't become a BSN until 2011...are we going to have a major shortage of nurses at that point?

That shortage is relative to where you are. The issue is nurses are leaving the field and the ones that replace them are not staying. For example here the average working nurse is 46. The programs are all full. They are filling positions as fast as they come out of school Those young people find out after a year or two that its not all that it was cracked up to be, so you are losing some of them as well. The net effect is the boat is taking on water and not going anywhere.

Rj