Work Opportunities in Ohio at present time?

[barefootlady]

Good Morning Neighbors,

I have several cousins living and working in the Southern Ohio area presently, we speak on the phone about twice a month, and they are telling me the job situation is awful there right now. Both of them are working, but they say they have been called off within the past month twice. Low census. That surprised me, the bad weather would have been reason to need extra staff in many places.

So my question is, how is the job situation in your area of Ohio? What area are you in, SEO, SWO, NO, NEO, NWO. CO?

Just curious. Thanks for the time you take to anwer this.

[barefootlady, ADN, RN]

I respect STNA's who work in LTC but hospital experience is definately a plus on any future nurse application. Good luck.

[JSTEELRN]

hey i got a year and half experience and most of the columbus hospitals are telling me that they want people with more experience and in the specific specialty areas.

[barefootlady, ADN, RN]

What is it with Columbus? I hear from family the place is really tough to get a job right now.

[smalltowngirl82]

I am a fresh grad living in NW Ohio. I take the NCLEX next week. The poor job outlook is NOT encouraging me to study that is for sure!!! My husband just got a job after being laid off for 4 months. We may have to consider moving out of state so we can BOTH work or have a long distance marriage! AUGH!!!

[LookUp2Sky, ASN, RN]

I read these posts, and not just in Ohio, and feel so strongly that THERE IS NO NURSING SHORTAGE!! The media, the government, and others have such a skewed opinion on this fact. I recently sent an e-mail to President Obama...like that will do any good-LOL. I am totally convinced that the problem lies in the fact that the facilities REFUSE to hire the adequate number of nurses, to sufficiently and appropriately care for these patients, due to the almighty dollar. This includes hospitals and nursing homes! I know a facility (unnamed) that tried what CA did...1:5 ratio, but said that it was too big of an impact on the bottom line. Isn't the fact that these facilities have patients to care for, related to the bottom line? Just amazes me!

I believe the market is saturated with nurses, and not just in Ohio. Does anyone see any huge demand, with tremendous sign-on bonuses out there? I think the government is behind the times, and the shortage might have existed 5 years ago. Now, they are encouraging new schools/programs to open up for nurses, only to invite us to go further into debt, without an opportunity to secure a job and pay that debt back! I just wish we could get the word out...no shortage of nurses here (in Ohio)!

[beckingrace]

I live in southern Ohio and everybody is going to nursing school. We have a multitiude of nursing schools and now everybody is scrambling for a job. It is really tight right now. Even in-house transfers are tight. I can remember the last nursing glut, I worked in Columbus at the time and there were no full time, only part time positions. It's a great way for the hospitals to slash benefit pay outs. Now that health care is a business, not a practice, money is the bottom line. I saw what previous writers wrote about experience but there seems to be a cut off, it all has to do with how much they have to pay the nurse. Hate to sound so critical but I am so fed up with press-ganey, pt's surveys I could just puke!!!!!!!!!!