Showing posts with label staffing. Show all posts
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Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Nursing Jobs (nursezilla) on Twitter

Nursing Jobs

NurseZilla.com...the nursing site with a BITE! Our global nursing audience has been breathless with anticipation awaiting our monstrous 3rd launch! 2001 - 2009

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RN -ICU: Richmond, Ohio

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Physician Assistant/Nurse Practitioner: Richmond, Ohio

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RN PRN - PACU: Bedford, Ohio

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RN - CLINICAL NURSE: Cleveland, Ohio

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Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Don't bring stress home with you, Scrubsmag.com

As a nurse, I don’t think we will ever be able to eliminate stress. I think a certain amount of stress is expected in our line of work. I mean, let’s get real. We’re in the business of saving, and improving the quality of lives here. Stress is just part of the game.

But, just like an athlete playing a ‘game’, we need to leave it all on the field. Yeah, it’s a loose analogy, but it goes a long way. Athletes leave it all on the field and we nurses should leave it all at work.

Bringing stress-related issues home with you just compounds the original problem(s). We have a tendency to take that high-octane paced environment and just keep on driving until we drive it on home. Then you’re ‘wired for sound’ for your significant other or family member. You end up being unpleasant and short-fused with persons who really have nothing to do with your stress. Yet, these are the people that usually have to figure out how to deal with it? So then your level of stress gets even higher since you have no solution.

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Monday, February 21, 2011

Are 12-hour shifts safe? Donna Cardillo, MA, RN - American Nurse Today

Are 12-hour shifts safe?

Donna Cardillo, MA, RN

 

12-hour shifts have become the norm in hospitals and most nurses love them. One can work 3 days and have 4 days off, there is one less major shift change to contend with, and patients have fewer names and faces to get acclimated to in a 24-hour period. It all makes sense on the surface.

 

But is working 12 consecutive hours in a fast-paced, high stress, physically and mentally demanding environment a good idea? Does it support the clear judgment, quick thinking and reflexes, and life and death decisions that we must make in the acute care setting?

 

I know a few nurses who do three 12-hour shifts a week, at least two of the shifts on two consecutive days. Some nurses do three consecutive 12s. Factor in commuting time, shift transition (it can sometimes take 1-2 extra hours to actually finish up), time to get ready for work—never mind making time (if at all) for family or self and they’re lucky to get 5-6 hours of sleep if that. Compound that with the fact that many nurses no longer take meal breaks or even short breaks during their shift to rest and refresh because they believe they don’t have the time or they don’t make the time. This is a recipe for disaster. 

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Sunday, December 19, 2010

Business Basics, Starting A Nursing Agency, Nursingentrepreneurs.com

To Start A Nursing Agency:

  • Call The State Board of Nursing in your state, tell them you'd like to start a nursing agency. They'll refer you to the Regulating Body that can issue you a nursing agency license (Required).

    • If they do not cooperate (or say they don't know), then try calling as a nurse, who wants to file a complaint against a nursing agency and you want to know who to contact.
    • You can also try calling your local department of health and asking who licenses nursing agencies.

  • Get the required Bonding and Insurance. For Instance, in New Jersey, they require a $10,000 Surety Bond and Workers Compensation Insurance to start. Liberty Mutual handles the Involuntary Market in NJ.

  • Malpractice Insurance/Professional Liability Insurance is a must (we recommend that our nurses have individual policies as well). Health Professional Services Organization, http://www.hpso.com is reasonable, for one million/six million policy on our first 10 nurses, we pay $819 per year. Their # is 888-288-3534.

  • Pay An Attorney to make and review the contracts you'll be using with the facilities you send nurses and nursing assistants to. Please note, it's much cheaper to have an attorney "review" a contract, than to have one made up from scratch.

      (Please note, you can purchase a copy of our contracts for $50 (Visa or Mastercard Accepted) or we'll trade for competency exams, insurance quotes, etc).

    To Purchase the contracts, click on the "Buy Now" logo and send $50 to Andrew Lopez, RN at info@nursefriendly.com. Once payment is received we will Mail, E-mail or Fax the contracts to you (please specify how you'd like them sent).

  • Set up an office (either at home, or rent space if you've got the capital).

    • If you are set up as a sole proprietorship, be wary of claiming the "home office" deduction. It's a major red flag to the IRS and strict documentation rules apply.

    • If you are set up as a corporation, contact us if you'd like a copy of the Lease Agreement Nursefriendly, Inc. uses to rent office space. Strict documentation rules apply with this option as well.

  • Prepare Job Applications, Reference Sheets, and the other paperwork you'll need your for nurses to fill out for you to be in compliance with your state's requirements.

      Please note, you can find 1/2 the forms you need by applying to a local nursing agency and asking them to send you a packet so you can fill out the forms at home. (I usually tell them I'm a stay at home father and need to pay a babysitter when I come in). Send out "Request for Proposals" to printing/forms companies to get price quotes for making up your business forms, time sheets, stationery, etc.

  • Start advertising and wait for the calls, contracts to come in. Good sources are the Yellow Pages, Local Papers, Direct Mail. You can also simply mail/fax your contracts to the facilities after a phone call and let them review them.

    • Make up a list of the hospitals and nursing homes in your area (check in the local phone book, on the web, etc.) that you'll contact looking for business.

    • A guerilla marketing tactic, is to go into other facilities through other agencies working as an agency nurse, and network with other nurses and their administration.

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    If you explore the site a bit, you'll find profiles of hundreds of nurse entrepreneurs around the country. We encourage you to browse around, find a business category you are interested in, then contact the nurse directly. We're available for questions as well. This website is Owned-Operated by Andrew Lopez, RN a Medical/Surgical/Telemetry nurse.

    Has your Nurse-owned business been written up in the news? Do you send out a newsletter or regular press releases? We'd like to hear about it!

    Our Newest article is from an Arizona Nurse Entrepreneur:

    Should You Incorporate Your Registry Business? By Joseph Caracci, RN:"The short answer is yes! When starting a new nurse registry business, you are entering into a legal business environment that requires you to take steps to protect your personal assets, such as your home, your savings, and your retirement. With this in mind, you need to determine which legal form you are going to take for your new registry. Some of the common choices are a sole proprietorship, a partnership, a limited liability partnership (LLP), a limited liability company (LLC), and a corporation."
    http://www.nursingentrepreneurs.com/incorporate

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    The #1 question, we've been receiving lately is about Starting A Nursing Agency, resource sites & manuals

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    Interesting Reading For Nurse Entrepreneurs, Actual or Soon To Be:

    Nurse Entrepreneurs: Tales of Nurses in Business:"This book is vey inspiring! Learn how 50 different nurses brought their vision to reality! Learn some great tips on starting your own business. Nurses don't have to just work at the bedside. Read this book and you will be thinking of how you can make your dream a reality!"

    Own Your Own Corporation: Why the Rich Own Their Own Companies and Everyone Else Works for Them:"Rich Dad's-"Own your Own Corporation" is a must read for anyone comtemplating a new business-or someone who already owns their own business. Garrett's direct yet simplistic explanations of the different business entities,the proper and best suited entity for your business-is followed by real-life scenarios which helps drive home the importance of corporate ownership in today's business world. Use Garrett's legal expertise to establish a successful, legally responsible and fiscally protected business...And understand the why's and how's of that ownership."

    21 Success Secrets, Success Secret #4- "Do What You Love to Do." Get your FREE CD and find out the other 20 secrets of self-made millionaires.:"Order your FREE CD ($4.95 S&H) from Brian Tracy's acclaimed 21 Success Secrets series. Start with 21 Success Secrets of $elf-Made Millionaires - full of techniques practiced by all men and women who go from rags to riches in one generation. Brian Tracy is a noted success expert. He's trained over 2 million people in 23 countries how to achieve their financial goals faster than ever before."

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    • Make Your Knowledge Sell!:""Make Your Knowledge Sell!" makes it possible for Y-O-U to develop and sell your infoproduct! My co-author Monique Harris started out pretty much like you. She didn't use rocket science to achieve her tremendous e-publishing success."

    • Make Your Net Auction Sell:"As a business, Net auctions are truly a whole new kind of opportunity. To sell at auction just a few years ago, you had to be a Sotheby's, a business liquidator, a car dealer… or some other kind of "traditional" business. Or pay them to do the job."

    • Make Your Price Sell:"Know Your Perfect Price™ in 50 Minutes "Why is the Perfect Price™ so important?" That depends on whether you are considering a new product concept, launching a new product, or managing existing ones... Considering a new product concept? Not sure if it will fly? Imagine if you could know how much people would pay. You'd know if this new idea was worth pursuing... or not (think of the dollars and time saved)."

    • Make Your Site Sell:"Starting a major new business on the Net? Want to improve upon results from an existing Web presence? Or merely looking to build a solid second income stream? Whatever your e-commerce goals, we'll OVERdeliver, no matter how lofty your expectations are. As you will soon see, SiteSell.com products are globally acclaimed by major authorities as best of breed. Yet they are priced so that you can afford them... easily."

    • Make Your Words Sell:"What Do YOU Sell? Want to Sell More? Selling software on the Net? Infoproducts? A service? Million dollar cables for suspension bridges? If you want to sell more... Use the right words. Because words sell, not graphics. If you have any doubts, try this simple experiment."

    • Site Build It :"Site Build It! is the complete, all-in-one traffic-building system. It builds income by giving you all the software, tools and techniques that you need to build targeted traffic... all tied together into a terrific, time-saving, step-by-step process."

    • Please select from the following, see also Doing Business Resources:

      Make Money From Any Type of Website! Webmasters will want to check out our Paid Link Affiliate Programs Directory

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    Andrew Lopez, RN
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    38 Tattersall Drive, Mantua New Jersey 08051
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    Tuesday, October 19, 2010

    Nursing, Not For Everyone, Not For Most People, by Andrew Lopez, RN, Nurses Views of The Nursing Profession

    Nursing, Not For Everyone, Not For Most People, Nurses Views of The Nursing Profession - by Andrew Lopez, RN:"Nursing is no longer an attractive profession for young women (historically the largest segment of the population entering Nursing) to go into. It is having difficulty competing with corporate and other service industries that offer better working conditions, higher pay, no weekends/holidays, more prestige and much less stress. It's a given that as a nurse, you're on a daily basis exposed to hostile families and patients, deadly diseases, abuse from doctors, families and other nurses."
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