Sign on bonuses

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I know in Las Vegas a lot of the hospitals do a lot of sign on bonuses and have a lot of incentives to come to their hospital. Do you see a lot of that where you live?

Specializes in Critical Care, ED, Cath lab, CTPAC,Trauma.
There is a hospital in my area offering sign on bonuses, and the reason is that it s such an awful place to work. You have to sign a 1 year contract an get the bonus after a year. I know 8 people who have broken that contract and walked away from the bonus. I do not know anyone who as gotten the bonus. From my experience, anyone offering a sign on bonus in this job market is setting off a major red flag.
I can't like this enough!!! In this job market...it's a huge red flag!
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If you see a $10,000 sign on bonus run in the other direction.

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I got a sign on bonus in Philly, of all places. It wasn't advertised and was totally unexpected. I was a new grad too.

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Specializes in "Wound care - geriatric care.

Over all sign up bonuses are a thing of the past...maybe after they (big corp) destroy the nursing profession and make it so crappy no one wants to become a nurse and deal with life and death situations for $18 h and there are no nurses to staff anymore they will come up with perks again?...who knows

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They will then pressure our elected officials to water down the Nurse Practice Act, to allow a larger scope of practice for Unlicensed Assistive Personnel.

We will see nurses aides working in ICU, managing drips, caring for patients on vents. This, by the way, is what they have been planning for all along. They want to be able to staff hospitals with minimum use/need for nurses. Period.

If anyone disagrees with me, just step back and look at the big picture of what has transpired over the last decade. Nurses aides passing medications in Nursing Homes and ALFs. Aides doing fingersticks, dressing changes, PTs and RTs taking over our professional practice of PICC line insertions and dressing changes, just look around you.

We are sitting back and allowing this to happen folks. Wake up before there is no longer a nursing profession to save. We must unionize en masse to have a united voice to fight this.

We cannot do this alone.

JMHO and my NY $0.02.

Lindarn, RN, BSN, CCRN

Somewhere in the PACNW

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Specializes in Urgent Care, Oncology.

I was hoping to see someone mention Tampa in here. I'm about to graduate in the Tampa area!

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They will then pressure our elected officials to water down the Nurse Practice Act, to allow a larger scope of practice for Unlicensed Assistive Personnel.

We will see nurses aides working in ICU, managing drips, caring for patients on vents. This, by the way, is what they have been planning for all along. They want to be able to staff hospitals with minimum use/need for nurses. Period.

If anyone disagrees with me, just step back and look at the big picture of what has transpired over the last decade. Nurses aides passing medications in Nursing Homes and ALFs. Aides doing fingersticks, dressing changes, PTs and RTs taking over our professional practice of PICC line insertions and dressing changes, just look around you.

We are sitting back and allowing this to happen folks. Wake up before there is no longer a nursing profession to save. We must unionize en masse to have a united voice to fight this.

We cannot do this alone.

JMHO and my NY $0.02.

Lindarn, RN, BSN, CCRN

Somewhere in the PACNW

I hope to be dead before I need long-term care. My advance directive is written stringently enough to keep me out of an ICU ever, so I should be safe there.

You're absolutely right, Linda, and it's not going to get better.

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Ha ha. OP are you a student? Wow, I hope you did a little "current" research, LOL, or you are gonna be very disappointed! Nobody is gonna beg a new grad to take a job, and nobody is going to pay for your college. LOL!!!! Sorry, don't mean to tease, but, seems you need to understand a little better what situation you are entering as far as just employment goes.

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Specializes in Peds/Neo CCT,Flight, ER, Hem/Onc.

Even if you do get one...those puppies are HEAVILY taxed!!!!!!!

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Specializes in LTC and School Health.

I've seen a few in my area, but there is a contract for a year attached.

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When I first graduated, they had them in my area for experienced OR RNs only. Still think its a red flag in these times.

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Specializes in Public Health, Women's Health.
I was hoping to see someone mention Tampa in here. I'm about to graduate in the Tampa area!

Florida Hospital offers sign on bonuses but not for new nurses.

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