Florida nursing shortage?

U.S.A. Florida

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This summer I am hoping to relocate to Florida. While on the Florida board of nursing site I noticed that a statement was issued about a nursing shortage in Florida. And they were Asking for donations. Does anyone know anything about a nursing shortage in the state of Florida?and if so, any particular area of Florida where nurses are in high demand?

Do you have contact info for that? Because the high schools are saying they do not qualify because the scholarship isn't available any longer.

The lowest ACT score among my cousins is 28 and 1250 on SAT and they have over 200 hours of community service. (They went with me for at least 100 of those hours)

Would love to know why the high schools say the scholarship isn't available then!

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2014

medallion 75% : Florida Student Scholarship and Grant Programs

academic 100%: Florida Student Scholarship and Grant Programs

Specializes in ED, trauma.

Thanks for the info!! I will pass this along and see if Jennifer can get the scholarship now that she's out of high school. She could use the money. She's applying to UCF's engineering program next year! Well this made my day!

Sorry to hijack the thread OP!

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Florida is the worst state to work in for LPN's and RN's. Experienced, smart and well trained LPN's are treated like PCTs. They are not even allowed to check blood sugar at my hospital in Fort Lauderdale. I'm an RN, and we too are treated poorly. Exploited by being over worked and frequently under staffed because my hospital is too damn cheap to hire nurses. Believe me, it is not worth moving here for a job. Move here when you retire. I still see nurses who are in the late 50's working their asses off to save for retirement because the only make 35 dollars an hour with 20+ years of experience. I went per diem and make 38$, otherwise, they made it sound like paying me 25$ and hour was doing a favor for me. I have 4 years of training experience. Don't even get me started on the manners of the physicians. There are none.

That is why nurses need to be unionized. You cannot advocate for your patients if you are in fear of losing you job.

Spare me the, "its not professional to belong to a union".

Teachers have been unionized since the beginning. They ALL have higher education levels than nurses.

Get over it. Unionize!

JMHO and my NY $0.02

Lindarn, RN, BSN, CCRN (ret)

Somewhere in the PACNW

I left teaching in FL because the union is crap. The politicians passed laws eliminating tenure, the governor constantly cut the budget which lowered teacher salaries and caused me to get laid off, and they're always passing unfunded mandates (like the one several year back requiring 150 minutes of PE class, but no money to hire more PE teachers/buy equipment, and recess doesn't count as PE time). So what happened was classroom teachers like me had to stop teaching academics for 30 minutes a week and teach PE, since we couldn't come up with 150 minutes without hiring more PE teachers which we can't afford with their low budget (stupid politicians!). Oh, and politicians made sure teachers got paid according to student test scores! Imagine if your patient satisfaction scores determined your pay! Unions can't fight politicians, and they're the true enemy.

You speak the truth!!

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