Why haven't hospital systems in hard-hit areas reached out to state BONs to find out if there are former ICU or other high-demand specialty nurses?

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Pure curiosity here, but surely there has to be some way for the state BONs to track nurses who recently used to work in ICU nursing or other very high demand areas pertaining to COVID crises.

For instance, I used to work ICU and adult inpatient hemodialysis. Now I work in psych. Here in Houston there's apparently a severe shortage of active RNs in this area who specialized in either of these areas. One would think I would be getting letters in the mail attempting to recruit me to temporarily join or something. We live in an area where people will randomly call you asking to buy your house and whatnot. Weird they never did such a thing with specialty nurses.

I get multiple texts,emails, and calls advertising incentives to take contracts in my area for 2x my pay right now (which is more than what a hospital would offer me a couple a couple years ago). You couldn’t pay me to go in those places. I have family members who luckily survived COVID and are still finding out it’s long term effects. No thank you. No pay is worth that. God bless those who are willing to do it or find it their calling-I want no part of it.

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13 minutes ago, NurseSpeedy said:

I get multiple texts,emails, and calls advertising incentives to take contracts in my area for 2x my pay right now (which is more than what a hospital would offer me a couple a couple years ago). You couldn’t pay me to go in those places. I have family members who luckily survived COVID and are still finding out it’s long term effects. No thank you. No pay is worth that. God bless those who are willing to do it or find it their calling-I want no part of it.

Okay, just got an offer for a months pay in a week-I still don’t want it-I will admit though that with my pre-existing conditions it’s basically a death trap if I did it.

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On 7/11/2020 at 2:34 AM, A Hit With The Ladies said:

Pure curiosity here, but surely there has to be some way for the state BONs to track nurses who recently used to work in ICU nursing or other very high demand areas pertaining to COVID crises.

For instance, I used to work ICU and adult inpatient hemodialysis. Now I work in psych. Here in Houston there's apparently a severe shortage of active RNs in this area who specialized in either of these areas. One would think I would be getting letters in the mail attempting to recruit me to temporarily join or something. We live in an area where people will randomly call you asking to buy your house and whatnot. Weird they never did such a thing with specialty nurses.

They did in New York State. Everyone with an RN license got multiple surveys asking if we were available to be deployed in hard hit areas, and the governor also put calls out to health care professionals with lapsed licenses and certs too.

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Im registered in 5 states, and not once have I been asked what my specialty is.

If boards haven't been doing this ever, how do you propose they assemble a complete database overnight.

Regardless, if this is just a liberal hoax, and none of the public health measures are effective at preventing it, then why are you worried? You should just tell those crisis actor "patients" to stop making *** up to make Trump look bad.

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Just now, /username said:

Im registered in 5 states, and not once have I been asked what my specialty is.

If boards haven't been doing this ever, how do you propose they assemble a complete database overnight.

Regardless, if this is just a liberal hoax, and none of the public health measures are effective at preventing it, then why are you worried? You should just tell those crisis actor "patients" to stop making *** up to make Trump look bad.

I’m impressed by the dedication of the crisis actors who are scripted to die. That’s some next level method acting.

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3 minutes ago, HiddencatBSN said:

I’m impressed by the dedication of the crisis actors who are scripted to die. That’s some next level method acting.

Why do you think they get hired at so many places where they die? I mean, it's a high stakes one and done thing. I'm more impressed that elementary schoolers are so good at it.

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On 7/16/2020 at 5:00 AM, HiddencatBSN said:

They did in New York State. Everyone with an RN license got multiple surveys asking if we were available to be deployed in hard hit areas, and the governor also put calls out to health care professionals with lapsed licenses and certs too.

I'm trying to determine how anyone in the nursing field that was watching what was going on in the NE in March and April could not know this.

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12 hours ago, weedrvbi said:

I'm trying to determine how anyone in the nursing field that was watching what was going on in the NE in March and April could not know this.

I got emailed from the state board of nursing and from my teaching job, multiple times. Plus the call went out publicly too: my husband used to be a paramedic and let his cert lapse (stopped working due to PTSD) and since they were asking for people with former certs too he responded but ended up not being asked to go. My hospital sent a ton of staff downstate to work as well since our census had dropped and there was a need.

But this is coordination that happens at the state level so when you have states that don’t want to do that work and take on that task and authority....it doesn’t just magically happen.

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On 7/17/2020 at 8:50 AM, /username said:

Im registered in 5 states, and not once have I been asked what my specialty is.

If boards haven't been doing this ever, how do you propose they assemble a complete database overnight.

Regardless, if this is just a liberal hoax, and none of the public health measures are effective at preventing it, then why are you worried? You should just tell those crisis actor "patients" to stop making *** up to make Trump look bad.

Crisis actor patients? My uncle was sick for weeks, spent one week I a hospital and thought he was going to die...not a hoax-this virus Is real- oh, and he’s definitely a Trump supporter so not an “actor patient”.

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On 8/11/2020 at 8:26 AM, NurseSpeedy said:

Crisis actor patients? My uncle was sick for weeks, spent one week I a hospital and thought he was going to die...not a hoax-this virus Is real- oh, and he’s definitely a Trump supporter so not an “actor patient”.

I'm pretty sure @/username was being sarcastic based on the posts of another user and wasn't calling Covid a hoax themselves.

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