Everything is down hill

[Bigmaine33]

It's been 7 months and I still can't finds job. I just got an eviction notice have to be out by Monday and I have nowhere to go. I completely fell like a failure and I let everyone down. I recently got hired at Burger King part time it not enough to catch up on my rent. don't no where to go from here lost and very hurt right now. All the jobs I see posted and I can't land one because I don't have 1 years experience. Ive been praying doing everything i can. i feel like the 16 months i spent in nursing school was for nothing,needed to vent.

[mc3, ASN, RN]

Yipe. I'm down in central FL and every single one of my classmates had multiple job offers immediately after the nclex scores came through (home health, hospice and LTC, no hospitals though). Have you looked into home health? Down here, you don't even have to get "hired" in, just show up with your license and a clean bill of health, and they set up orientation.[/quote']

Don't know where you are in central fl but I haven't seen the situation you describe...county to county may be different. Starting pay is generally $14 to $16 per hour..

Mc3

[martymoose, BSN, RN]

In the neck of the woods where I live, Burger King starts workers out at the federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour while the CNA/tech jobs pay between $10 to $15 per hour.

where I am BK may be min. wage, but tech starts at 8-9 $ , I'd rather flip burgers lol

[SuzieVN]

I heard about the Dallas area- something like 2000 nursing home patients have been, or will be discharged, and mabey 50 nursing homes closed because of the budget crisis.

[martymoose, BSN, RN]

I heard about the Dallas area- something like 2000 nursing home patients have been, or will be discharged, and mabey 50 nursing homes closed because of the budget crisis.

That's terrible- where are they going to put everyone???

[SuzieVN]

There's a recent push to get them back home with home health- hence the 'explosion' in home health care agencies (and hospice). Medicaid budgets are collapsing, so they liberalized what home care needs can be taken care of. They used to say if you needed more than, say, two hours a day of care- you 'had' to go into a SNF. Now that home limit is closer to EIGHT hours a day, so people are being encouraged to stay home. In the past five years, 10% of Medicaid $ has switched from SNF to home based care, saving 'bazillion$'. Interesting turn of events-more so that every day now, 10,000 Americans are turning age 65.

[SuzieVN]

In fact- now I also realize why hospice has 'exploded' into home health- if people stay at home, then 'graduate' to hospice, in home, it all now makes sense. Used to be most hospice people were in nursing homes, which really never made sense, financially. But the SNF was considered their 'home'.

Maybe the end of LTC/SNFs is coming?

I also now clearly see why the pay of LVN's has plummted, and will continue to seek a bottom...