MO Hospital offering $5,000 sign-on bonus to new grads

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Missouri hospital offers nursing students $5K sign-on bonuses

Hmm...seems to me they're suffering from a nursing shortage. They certainly don't offer sign-on bonuses to new grads when they have a glut of graduate nurses from which to choose.

Specializes in EMS, ED, Trauma, CEN, CPEN, TCRN.
A hospital could easily lure me in by offering to pay some of my student loans. That would be marvelous.

I believe that a very large, nationwide hospital corporation is going to start offering that very benefit. A lot of my coworkers are eagerly awaiting that information!

Specializes in Critical Care; Cardiac; Professional Development.
My hospital will offer bonuses if people ask, despite other organizations in this area offering up to $10K. They changed our tuition reimbursement policy to EXCLUDE programs leading to NP or CNM though...bastards!

Makes sense, if you think about it. Those positions are far less likely to fill a hospital need and more likely to be employed outside the hospital.

Tacomaster is correct. The offer is 22 an hour for 20 years of RN/BSN experience. But, the more optimistic poster said things had improved so it's possible...The numbers were quoted to me last year...

Specializes in Home Health/Wound care.

Not to be obstinate. But I see these adds all the time. What I have not seen is $5,000 dollars.

Klone, my area has a glut of new grads to choose from and we've been offering sign-on bonuses for years (not when I graduated years ago though but...sigh). We have an issue that everyone wants to initially work at our hospital and get that golden year of experience and then leave after we've paid to train them. Our hospital is looked at as the place to work at in our area but these new hires are leaving and moving as fast as we can train them. This is why I am frustrated by the lack/shortage of seasoned nurses. I don't think many new grads want to stay at the hospital bedside anymore...but they damn sure want to use our resources to get a year under their belt either way.

I am being told that we have no longer been giving "good" recommendations for those leaving before the first two years and/or breaking their sign-on contracts. Still hasn't phased many of them from leaving. Again a top 50 hospital, competitive wages, and truly a good place to work with a ton of cool bells and whistles. Oh well.

I just started a job and my preceptor told me that the majority of new nurses hired leave within a year. These nurses aspire to NP, CRNA or specialties such as NICU or L&D. In nursing school, many were focused on their next schooling step or what experience to get the certifications that it seemed there was a greater want for than actual positions. IDK, maybe I was just wrong in thinking I would focus on obtaining a position first and worry about possible extra education later. Some places are now offering retention bonuses after a year.

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