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.ink that
>
> 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!!
>

I work in an IT department in Healthcare. I have for 20 years. No
nurse I've met ever went back to nursing after getting into IT.
Further, of the 100+ employees in our department, only a handful, like
me, have an IT degree. And it doesn't buy me squat. We have pharmacy
techs, radiology techs, nurses - all working in IT. Making far more
than they would have. I didn't say nurses love IT and EMRs, but the
person I was replying to has an IT degree, so I wouldn't that is an
issue. And if you think medical IT is scaling back you're deranged.

> > 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!!

Like all professions, local demand is quirky. If you're willing to
relocate, you can have a job tomorrow. IF you have a BSN. Bet against
me and I'll meet you in HR at your orientation. Put up or shut up.
Wait a minute...aren't you the dumbass who can't figure out facebook?
Never mind. Go back to the hardware store.

>
> > 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?