On Oct 29, 6:26*pm, Pennyaline >
wrote:
> On 10/29/2011 3:11 PM, BillyZoom wrote:
>
> > I could say something unkind about having 3 very marketable degrees
> > and winding up working in a nursing home, but I know all about
> > circumstances, etc. What I would say, most sincerely, is that with
> > your education even a couple of years of real nursing experience would
> > make you a VERY desirable hire as an IT person in the area of
> > electronic medical records. Epic is the big push right now and people
> > are tripling their salaries by switching into IT. Hospital IT
> > departments LOVE nurses.
>
> But nurses don't love IT and EMRs. And how long will it be before
> medical/hospital IT departments have to scale back, insist on degrees in
> IT, incorporate general facility IT, and push the nurses out. Think it
> won't happen? Hah!!
>
> > As for male nurses, in this economy it's about the smartest thing you
> > can go into, male or female. Nobody is going to offshore nursing.
>
> Don't bet on that. Although there hasn't been a "nursing shortage" for a
> few years now, employers and nursing schools still say that there is and
> they use it to justify their odd recruitment practices. In the last
> year, there's been another push to bring in foreign nurses to work in U.
> S. healthcare, using the nursing shortage lie. Meanwhile, employed
> nurses are being cut back or laid off outright, and employers hire less
> expensive foreign nurses or middling-experienced newer nurses whose pay
> rates are still low. There are many, many, many nurses in the U.S. who
> cannot find reliable work, and who have to hang onto whatever work they
> find by their fingernails while employers remind them to show some
> gratitude for the crumbs they get or talk a walk. That's as close to
> off-shoring as it gets in nursing, and damn! It's pretty close!!
>
> > And
> > as I've alluded to, starting out as a nurse is just the beginning.
> > Many of them wind up as VPs.
>
> As VPs of what?

Nursing
Operations
IT