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NPR : Reality TV Tackles Nurse Shortage
NPR : Reality TV Tackles Nurse Shortage
posted by craven 519 days 41 minutes ago
The first Web-based reality show aims to recruit more nurses to address the shortage. Nurse TV will premiere this fall and focus on six nurses living together in a California beach mansion.
Read more...Staffing Firm Launches Reality Show to Combat Nursing Shortage
Staffing Firm Launches Reality Show to Combat Nursing Shortage
posted by craven 519 days 45 minutes ago
By creating a show about six travel nurses on a dream assignment in southern California, Access Nurses shines a spotlight on the unsung heroes of medicine. Travel nurses are highly qualified healthcare professionals who travel the country working in hospitals with acute needs for thirteen weeks at a time. 13 Weeks will showcase the very intense and challenging hospital work environment, the thrill of exploring Southern California, and the demands of living with five new roommates.
Read more...Reality show hopes to recruit nurses
Reality show hopes to recruit nurses
posted by craven 519 days 46 minutes ago
Reality show hopes to recruit nurses
Read more...Demand for nurses on rise in Calif. hospitals
Demand for nurses on rise in Calif. hospitals
posted by craven 519 days 52 minutes ago
Demands for new nurses in hospitals and medical centers in California have been on the rise as the state is introducing a new healthcare law and facing a continuing population growth. Competition to hire nurses among local hospitals is so intense these days that some headhunters routinely make cold calls to nursing stations at rival hospitals for luring recruits, a Los Angeles Times report said Wednesday. Scrambling to comply with California's first-of-its-kind law mandating one nurse for every five patients in most wards starting this year, hospitals are in a hiring frenzy reminiscent of Silicon Valley's lust for engineers in 1999.
Read more...A little bit of 'ER', a little bit of 'The O.C.'
A little bit of 'ER', a little bit of 'The O.C.'
posted by craven 519 days 50 minutes ago
Nurse-staffing firm creates reality show in hopes of drawing more to profession.
Read more...First Travel Nurse Reality Show Announces Cast Members
First Travel Nurse Reality Show Announces Cast Members
posted by craven 519 days 59 minutes ago
Access Nurses, a national travel nurse company, today announced the six cast members for the first reality show about travel nurses -- highly skilled healthcare professionals who travel the country working at hospitals with acute needs for 13 weeks at a time. With over 26,000 votes cast, and more than 100 applicants, visitors to www.NurseTV.com chose the following six cast members to live in a mansion in Orange Country and experience the attractions and excitement of a Southern California lifestyle, as well as a very intense and challenging hospital work environment. Taping has begun, with the show's debut scheduled for November online at www.NurseTV.com.
Read more...Nursing firm creates reality show
Nursing firm creates reality show
posted by craven 519 days 1 hour ago
As a travel nurse, Alycen Skorvonek goes anywhere there is a staffing shortage. Skorvonek has worked on an Indian reservation in Arizona and in an emergency room in San Francisco. Now she is planning her next move, to Southern California to be on a reality show.
Read more...Paging all nurses
Paging all nurses
posted by craven 519 days 1 hour 2 minutes ago
According to the Department of Labor’s Web site, over the next several years more jobs will open up in nursing than in any other field. And what better way to stoke interest in nursing than by starting a new reality TV show?
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