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First Travel Nurse Reality Show Announces Cast Members
First Travel Nurse Reality Show Announces Cast Members
posted by craven 518 days 22 hours 26 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 518 days 22 hours 27 minutes 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...Traveling nurses surge amid shortage
Traveling nurses surge amid shortage
posted by craven 518 days 22 hours 28 minutes ago
Amy Morrison has turned the national nursing shortage to her advantage. The 32-year-old nurse hung up her Ohio scrubs six years ago and hit the road. She's one of an estimated 20,000 U.S. "traveling nurses" who move from hospital to hospital on assignments typically lasting 13 weeks. Travel nurses help hospitals fill workforce gaps and, in some cases, keep hospital units open.
Read more...Paging all nurses
Paging all nurses
posted by craven 518 days 22 hours 30 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?
Read more...Let's put on a show!
Let's put on a show!
posted by craven 518 days 22 hours 31 minutes ago
Today NPR's Morning Edition ran a piece by Patricia Neighmond taking a remarkably uncritical look at what is reportedly the first web-based "reality show," a project produced by a California travel nurse agency that NPR says is called "Nurse TV" (promotional materials call it "13 Weeks"). Despite the project's stated goal of improving the nursing image at a time of shortage, the five-minute NPR piece treats it mostly as a new media convergence story.
Read more...Casting about for nurses
Casting about for nurses
posted by craven 518 days 22 hours 33 minutes ago
San Diego-based health care staffing company Access Nurses has issued a nationwide casting call for nurses to be on 13 Weeks, a Web-based reality show. The show will be about the work and lifestyle of nurses and is designed to attract more candidates to the field, where there's a pervasive shortage.
Read more...First travel nurse reality show opens casting call
First travel nurse reality show opens casting call
posted by craven 518 days 22 hours 34 minutes ago
Access Nurses, a national travel nurse company based in San Diego, is calling travel nurses for the first reality television show based on the profession. The show, “13 Weeks,” will follow six travel nurses from all over the country who will relocate to Southern California. Episodes will focus on the hospital work environment, life in Southern California and the demands of living with five new roommates.
Read more...Time change may disrupt medical devices
Time change may disrupt medical devices
posted by craven 519 days 11 hours 34 minutes ago
The lengthening of daylight time may trigger malfunctions with medical devices and hospital information systems, Health Canada warned Wednesday. The department disseminated advisories from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration aimed at hospital officials, health-care workers and people reliant on medical devices and their caregivers.
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