I am here seeking advice on how to appeal to CV OR nurses from a recruitment/work environment perspective. What is a compelling package to you? And, what are you seeking in the work environment (technology, physician engagement, team work, management support, etc) that would cause you to consider accepting an offer?
I know money is important. I'm also seeking wisdom on some of the intangibles that are important to you. And, when you interview with a hospital, how do you know that those intangibles are present?
My hospital has several openings for CV OR nurses. We have developed an enhanced compensation package that includes a base of $42.00/hr, relocation assistance, temporary housing and a 5% retention bonus after one year of full time work. Rather than guess about what else is appealing to an experienced CV OR nurse, I wanted to ask you all for specifics on what is compelling. Is this package attractive to you? What else would you like to see? This will help in my conversation with my CNO and my CEO.
Looking at your hospitals job posting, there's only one position posted. It states BSN preffered.... that might sway applicants away... most I know are ADN. Im ADN, CNOR and have seen alot of postings across the country state adn OR cnor preferred. Your hospital also posts 800 cases a year.... that is super slow for a 12 OR suite.... my current facility does 7000 a year with the same number of rooms. Probably do 500 cabg/valve/thoracotomy/oscopy cases on the low side and I circulate 80% of those myself with my primary scrub techs. Last week we did 11 cabg/valves and 5 lung cases. I have 2 other RN circulators that rotate through for the overlapping cases. We have 2 dedicated heart rooms. Also... it seems your positions have been open for a WHILE. why not take a stand out student that has a desire to learn OR and pay their way through the periop 101 course then train them in cvor? I could have a RN without periop 101 circulating hearts and taking call in 3 months at my place or 6 months at a slower place.
where are you looking? BSN is preferred but not required. that is pretty standard. We encourage our ADN's to purse BSN's and offer tuition assistance to do so. We definitely hire ADNs.
I checked our website and there are several RN openings posted across our system. And, not sure where you are seeing 800 cases per year. However, your 7000 cases per year (!) definitely exceeds our volumes by orders of magnitude.
Again, I'm not sure you are looking at our careers website... the posting date for our openings is not published on the website. You are welcome to pm me with your personal email so we can continue this conversation. With your background and your ability to train, we may have an opportunity that could work for you.
no sweat, I was looking through you past posts and saw a posting that you had 3 slots for CVOR in oct 2010. 9 months is a while... Im guessing you still work at the same place... I also have no current desire to work in denver, the mountains is where I want to be. Just wanted to give you some insight and ideas from an inside perspective. I will definately archive this post in my head and search it out on this forum if I ever need it
Oh, on the jobs site for your facility under job id 8524 CVOR RN job posting it has all those numbers posted..... in the section labeled "unit description"
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Looking at your hospitals job posting, there's only one position posted. It states BSN preffered.... that might sway applicants away... most I know are ADN. Im ADN, CNOR and have seen alot of postings across the country state adn OR cnor preferred. Your hospital also posts 800 cases a year.... that is super slow for a 12 OR suite.... my current facility does 7000 a year with the same number of rooms. Probably do 500 cabg/valve/thoracotomy/oscopy cases on the low side and I circulate 80% of those myself with my primary scrub techs. Last week we did 11 cabg/valves and 5 lung cases. I have 2 other RN circulators that rotate through for the overlapping cases. We have 2 dedicated heart rooms. Also... it seems your positions have been open for a WHILE. why not take a stand out student that has a desire to learn OR and pay their way through the periop 101 course then train them in cvor? I could have a RN without periop 101 circulating hearts and taking call in 3 months at my place or 6 months at a slower place.