Starting today September 6, 2010 all users and visitors, both nursing job seekers and nursing employers, will now experience a new and improved NursingJobWorld.com site.

It now offers a simplified, hassle free, and fast functionality for nursing job seekers to search and apply for jobs by location or specialty from Top National Hospitals, and for nursing employers to post job vacancies and receive applications from highly qualified nurses across the country.

With all these changes, NursingJobWorld.com encourages more and more nurses and employers to come visit and make use of the site to take advantage of this wonderful opportunity to fulfill your nursing needs. NJW hopes to see many nurses find their dream jobs and secure a bright future through NJW site. NJW also wishes to see employers find the best nurses to fill their nursing job vacancies.

NursingJobWorld.com will continue to find ways to improve user experience and make this the NJW site truly a World Class Nursing Job Site.

NursingJobWorld.com is 100% Free To Use Now And Always…

So let’s work hand in hand to improve and make even better the health care industry!

It is very daunting that as the costs of health care coverage increase more and more workers will suffer from having additional expenses every month just so their families can continue to enjoy their health care benefits.

Even though there is an employer-employee sharing for the costs still this increase will make an impact on the employees pockets.

Read the story here –>  http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/03/business/03insure.html?_r=2&hp

Please leave a comment on our question below.

What do you think is a good alternative or helpful action that can help the workers from the rising cost of health care?

According to an article on The Washington Post,  despite recession there will still be an increase on the opportunities for nurses.

And though the economy brings a big toll on the nursing industry as well, many hospitals and health care industries can still see the need for more and more nurses in the years to come.

For some of the nurses and employers who suffered because of recession, it was just a temporary “blip” that will soon change.

Read more @ http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/30/AR2010083002233.html

MAJOR TEACHING HOSPITALS

Hospital

City, State

University Medical Center

Tucson, AZ

UC San Diego Health System

San Diego, CA

NorthShore University HealthSystem

Evanston, IL

Rush University Medical Center

Chicago, IL

Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center

Chicago, IL

Advocate Lutheran General Hospital

Park Ridge, IL

Northwestern Memorial Hospital

Chicago, IL

Ochsner Medical Center

New Orleans, LA

Providence Hospital and Medical Center

Southfield, MI

Mayo Clinic – Rochester Methodist Hospital

Rochester, MN

University Hospitals Case Medical Center

Cleveland, OH

Doctors Hospital

Columbus, OH

Geisinger Medical Center

Danville, PA

Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Nashville, TN

Scott and White Memorial Hospital

Temple, TX

 

 

*This is based in the actual result published in the Thomson Reuters 100 Top Hospitals website.

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This is an Award given to the “elite special group of the National award winners”.

According to Thomson Reuters:  “The Everest Award honors an elite special group of the National award winners. Everest Award winners have reached the highest level of accomplishment on the national Balanced Scorecard and have the fastest rates of long-term improvement. This award recognizes the boards, executives, and medical staff leaders who developed and executed strategies that enabled a culture of performance improvement to grow rapidly and consistently over five years within the hospital, and that resulted in setting national benchmarks for excellence in the industry.”

Here are the elite group of hospitals  who received the Everest Award and their locations:

Hospital                                                                                         City, State

Northeast Georgia Medical Center                                    Gainesville, GA

Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center                      Chicago, IL

Riverside Medical Center                                                       Kankakee, IL

Silver Cross Hospital                                                                 Joliet, IL

Northwestern Memorial Hospital                                      Chicago, IL

St. Vincent Indianapolis Hospital                                        Indianapolis, IN

Major Hospital                                                                            Shelbyville, IN

The Finley Hospital                                                                   Dubuque, IA

Providence Hospital and Medical Center                        Southfield, MI

Allegiance Health                                                                      Jackson, MI

Munson Medical Center                                                         Traverse City, MI

St. Cloud Hospital                                                                      St. Cloud, MN

Buffalo Hospital                                                                          Buffalo, MN

Northeast Regional Medical Center                                   Kirksville, MO

Robert Packer Hospital                                                            Sayre, PA

Skyline Medical Center                                                           Nashville, TN

Vanderbilt University Medical Center                              Nashville, TN

St. Mary’s Jefferson Memorial Hospital                           Jefferson City, TN

Saint Thomas Hospital                                                             Nashville, TN

Baptist Hospital                                                                          Nashville, TN

Trinity Mother Frances Hospital                                          Tyler, TX

Dixie Regional Medical Center                                            St. George, UT

Memorial Regional Medical Center                                   Mechanicsville, VA

 

*This is based in the actual result published in the Thomson Reuters 100 Top Hospitals  website.

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According to American Nurses Association, RNs earn around $56,000 or may go up to as much as $90,000 for really hard working and ambitious nurses that would go for long hours work including night shifts, weekends and some even holidays, in big city hospitals.

 There is a need to provide attractive salaries for nurses who choose to work in schools and teach to be able to cater to the huge number of enrollees.

 Now for the meantime it is still an option for the US to accommodate foreign workers to bridge the gap while the nursing schools work on training more qualified registered nurses. Well, it’s not about foreign workers taking over American jobs but it’s more on providing the need of society especially in the health care sector.

 

(Based on a news in CNNMoney.com)

Based on actual survey on primary doctors’ salaries, it showed that nurse specialists are getting higher pay and benefits compared to primary care doctors. This is despite the shortage in the United States of primary care doctors.

According to Merritt Hawkins & Associates, a physician recruiting and consulting firm: In 2009, CRNAs, or the Certified Nurse Anesthetists were getting an average wage of $189,000 – a lot higher compared to that of primary care doctors who were getting just around $173,000. And it will maintain that same difference in 2010.

Why get high pay for being a Certified Nurse Anesthetist or CRNA?

Well, Certified Nurse Anesthetists are specialist nurses who had advance training and can act or perform similar practice with anesthesiologists, which is administering anesthesia to patients. The difference though is when CRNAs do the administering; it still falls under nursing practice while it falls under medicine practice when anesthesiologists do it.

Also the demand for Certified Nurse Anesthetists rose due to the increase of surgical procedures in the past years, though it has brought about some negative reaction from medical doctors and is considered a hindrance in encouraging medical students to choose to pursue primary care medicine to solve the shortage of primary care doctors. CRNAs could still proudly contest that in saying, that they are able to help keep the smooth running of hospital ORs by administering anesthesia to patients and keeping them safe and comfortable when undergoing surgery.

 

(Based on a news in CNNMoney.com)