If you take a nursing job and leave after job orientation, anyone of you has to pay back to the facility up tp $12,000?
The job is a about one specialty (confidentiality issue, I dont think I would be able to name the specialty) job . The policy is 1 year commitment and if the person leaves after 8 weeks orientation, she/he has to pay back up to $12,000. Depending on how long the person stays after orientation, the amount of money ($12,000) would decrease. And after a year, the person does not have to pay that amount of money anymore if deciding to leave.
I wonder if this is suitable or appropriate for anyone who is/are nurse(s) out there! This's the first time I've ever heard of such things!
Specializes in Cardiothoracic Transplant Telemetry.
The hospital where I started as a new grad had us sign a 18 month contract, with a price tag of $5000 that was prorated if we left before our time was up. I know a couple of people who left and paid off their contract when the fit with the hospital wasn't right for them. Considering the fact that I was part of a comprehensive new grad program with a extensive preceptorship, I do not regret the time I spent at that hospital at all, and consider it time well spent. The experience and training that I received was very valuable to me. I believe that I would still be with this hospital if I had not decided to move to a more economically advantageous part of the country.
The orientation that new grads receive at my current hospital is laughable compared to what I received, and I believe that they pay the price in turnover. I have been campaigning to start a more formal program for a year now, and believe strongly in the concept. A cohesive training program with all necessary classes worked into the orientation schedule is very expensive to run, and I totally understand the facility wanting the trainee to make as much of a commitment to the facility as the facility is making in them.
My advice is to look closely at the training that is being provided. If the program seems comprehensive, with extensive precepted time, and it is an opportunity that is not widely available elsewhere, I would consider it. The hospital that I trained with encouraged applicants to talk to nurses on the floor who were a part of the program. If the program that you are considering allows this, take them up on it.
Sometimes you have to take the risk to get your foot in the door of specialty areas.
It was said during interview; I do not know if I get the job or not. But I think there are more processes for the paper works to do before starting the job, and maybe that will be in one of those papers.
I am just wondering about the fee charged...
Don't sign a thing without having an attorney look over the papers. Seriously.
Nightcrawler, BSN, RN
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The hospital where I started as a new grad had us sign a 18 month contract, with a price tag of $5000 that was prorated if we left before our time was up. I know a couple of people who left and paid off their contract when the fit with the hospital wasn't right for them. Considering the fact that I was part of a comprehensive new grad program with a extensive preceptorship, I do not regret the time I spent at that hospital at all, and consider it time well spent. The experience and training that I received was very valuable to me. I believe that I would still be with this hospital if I had not decided to move to a more economically advantageous part of the country.
The orientation that new grads receive at my current hospital is laughable compared to what I received, and I believe that they pay the price in turnover. I have been campaigning to start a more formal program for a year now, and believe strongly in the concept. A cohesive training program with all necessary classes worked into the orientation schedule is very expensive to run, and I totally understand the facility wanting the trainee to make as much of a commitment to the facility as the facility is making in them.
My advice is to look closely at the training that is being provided. If the program seems comprehensive, with extensive precepted time, and it is an opportunity that is not widely available elsewhere, I would consider it. The hospital that I trained with encouraged applicants to talk to nurses on the floor who were a part of the program. If the program that you are considering allows this, take them up on it.
Sometimes you have to take the risk to get your foot in the door of specialty areas.