Less full time jobs out there

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Hey everyone.. Is it just me or does it seem that recently hospitals are moving towards hiring nurses PRN or part time? I know when I started three years ago..full timers seemed to be hired more often. We just had a full time employee leave our hospital and unit and they replaced her open spot with one part timer and PRN. I know a few of the nurses hired recently have been trying to get full time spot only to be denied. I guess I better hold onto my full time job cause I don't know if I would ever get it back.

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Specializes in Critical Care, ED, Cath lab, CTPAC,Trauma.

The full time slots are there the hospitals are CHOOSING to hire PRN so they don't owe them benefits. Now with the ACA/Obamacare they don't have to look bad for not offering healthcare to a healthcare employee because the employee is REQUIRED to get it elsewhere.

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Specializes in Med-Surg.

Yup, the full-time with benefits position I was hired for was eliminated. I had to take a huge pay drop to find another benefited position. And sure, people can say this was happening before Obama. But kinda coincidentally this happens shortly before the ACA goes into effect... Thanks a lot Obama...

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Specializes in ICU / Urgent Care.

You dont have to dig deep to see how big of a joke ACA is.

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Specializes in Geriatrics, Home Health.

Hospitals in my area were refusing to hire full-time staff long before Obamacare. They would rather hire travelers on 13-week contracts, with no benefits and no training.

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Specializes in Critical Care, ED, Cath lab, CTPAC,Trauma.

They knew what was coming...

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Specializes in Critical Care, Education.

Two major drivers are pushing this trend.

1) Decreasing the cost of benefits to cut labor costs.

2) Volumes have decreased in hospitals all over the country. This is probably the result of many factors, but it is unprecedented & has led to an overall decrease of 42,000 health care jobs since January 2013. Nurse managers have to flex staffing to match the volumes. This is much easier to do with fewer full timers.

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This has been happening since 2004 or so. I remember working a SNF in 2010 2011 and was cut several ways. First management decided to swap first floor(ltc) and second floor(rehab sub acute ltac) to the reverse but set up the rehab and sub acutes as private rooms and have ltc as semi privates with three private for more money or isolation Then they cut the number of nurses by two to three a shift and aides by five a shift since it cut census beds by 25. Then the cut hours down from 40 to 32 or less. And if you were a 40 schedule you got cut for census at least two shifts a pay check and were responsible for paying your benefits that pay period at increased rates because you did not qualify as full time unless you actually consistently worked 40 hour weeks for two pay periods in a row. Big corporations are greedy and screw over employees and customers. This is just getting worse in the current economic downslide.

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Specializes in LTC, Psych, M/S.
Hospitals in my area were refusing to hire full-time staff long before Obamacare. They would rather hire travelers on 13-week contracts with no benefits and no training.[/quote ']

Interesting that the same institutions that need insured patients to make a profit decline to provide it to their own staff. Scary.

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Hospitals in my area were refusing to hire full-time staff long before Obamacare. They would rather hire travelers on 13-week contracts, with no benefits and no training.

Yes, this is absolutely happening in my town. Tons of travellers. And the addition of float pools being created so to use them "as need."

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so what fields have the full time jobs now?

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Specializes in Critical Care, ED, Cath lab, CTPAC,Trauma.
so what fields have the full time jobs now?
Do you mean nursing? or other fields as well?

Probably not many....not that there an alternative to pass the expense onto the employee.

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