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Old 02-18-2009, 08:12 PM
 
Location: Texas
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St. Luke's has 50 positions posted for Nurses; Methodist has 46 posted; and Memorial Hermann has SIX pages of nursing positions posted.
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Old 02-18-2009, 09:53 PM
 
Location: Central Bay Area, CA as of Jan 2010...but still a proud Texan from Houston!
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Default Yea!!!!!

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That would be me. And MD Anderson has 82 jobs posted for nurses. And I still don't know a single nurse who is voluntarily out of work in the Houston Metro area.

I have been a nurse for 26 years and have NEVER worried about being laid off or not being able to find a job.

Yea for nurses and medical technologists especially the blood bankers! All nurses and medical technologists are very important and greatly appreciated!
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Old 02-18-2009, 10:05 PM
 
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That would be me. And MD Anderson has 82 jobs posted for nurses. And I still don't know a single nurse who is voluntarily out of work in the Houston Metro area.

I have been a nurse for 26 years and have NEVER worried about being laid off or not being able to find a job.
Nurses might be important, but you can't run the hospital alone. An adequate amount of support personnel are needed for the hospital to function.
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Old 02-19-2009, 05:40 AM
 
Location: Texas
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Nurses might be important, but you can't run the hospital alone. An adequate amount of support personnel are needed for the hospital to function.
I don't see where anyone said that you don't need support personnel. However, nurses are, without a doubt, the one profession that you must have in a hospital. Nurses can draw blood, perform physical therapy, give respiratory treatments, prepare and administer medications, make assessments, enter data into computer, even deal with insurance companies in this day and age. And trust me, somedays you do all of that.

I do agree that lab and radiology jobs are just as safe as nursing jobs, though. Those are areas that nurses traditionally haven't any experience.
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Old 03-15-2009, 04:32 PM
 
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Default MD Anderson hiring freeze

Does anyone know if the freeze applies to post-doctoral training positions?
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Old 03-15-2009, 05:05 PM
 
Location: San Antonio-Westover Hills
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I am afraid there is an update to this story. The freeze is across the board, including faculty. This was in a memo on Friday from Dr. Mendelsohn himself. I would imagine postdocs especially would be affected, since the institution would be funding you until you received a fellowship. Departments must prove that they would lose money by not hiring someone in order to bypass the freeze.
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Old 03-16-2009, 05:11 AM
 
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Where is the nurse that said that health care would not feel the effects of the economy?
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Nurses will not feel the effects of the economy, is more like it. There is still a nursing shortage in Houston. Health care will feel very little effects overall, but it's still going to pinch. No coincidence that this came on the heels of the approval of the latest "stimulus" package. *sigh*
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That would be me. And MD Anderson has 82 jobs posted for nurses. And I still don't know a single nurse who is voluntarily out of work in the Houston Metro area.

I have been a nurse for 26 years and have NEVER worried about being laid off or not being able to find a job.
Oh, good, I thought they were talking about me!! And if you were talking about me, I never said "health care." I said that it would take a lot before nursing started feeling the pinch of the economy.

Texas Children's Hospital (where I work) is also on a hiring and transfer freeze...except for nursing. They aren't hiring any other positions outside the nursing field. Usually we have ~70 people who leave our hospital voluntarily every month, on average. Last month, a total of 13 people left our institution, and a majority of those were spousal transfers, while the rest left for retirement reasons. No one is leaving their positions, and I have yet to hear of someone in the nursing field at my work to get laid off.
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Old 03-16-2009, 09:22 AM
 
Location: San Antonio-Westover Hills
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The really crappy thing about all of this is hubby was in negotiations for a new position at MDACC when this went down, and we're waiting to see if the department will approve, most likely they won't. He has until Nov. to find something b/c he's in his final year of his postdoc...
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Old 03-16-2009, 09:41 AM
 
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I've heard of this through several. Similiar situation is occuring in pharmacy.
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Old 03-16-2009, 09:48 AM
 
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The really crappy thing about all of this is hubby was in negotiations for a new position at MDACC when this went down, and we're waiting to see if the department will approve, most likely they won't. He has until Nov. to find something b/c he's in his final year of his postdoc...
From my understanding, if he has an acceptance letter, then he's hired. However, in this case, I don't think it will go through. Sorry.
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