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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm in healthcare. We hired a 70 something in April at top pay and she just left because she was poached for even higher pay by another hospital.[/quote]

Nurse?[/quote]

NP but this is a no-go in government healthcare and or health admin - increasingly a younger person’s field due to technology and even physical requirements. (Former CPR instructor and too many can’t get on the ground to perform chest compressions due to obesity/joint pain/surgeries/health conditions)[/quote]

I'm an MD and a federal employee, and I'd disagree completely. We are hiring good candidates, and you are suggesting that we not do so because of disability? Multiple problems with that.

1. First, it's illegal. The federal government toes that line very tightly.
2. How much of our time do you think is spent doing chest compressions? Anyone who is trained can compress (nurses, CNAs, med techs, whomever), or you can use a compression device -- I dislike them, but always an option. But you need a provider to run the code, and they are not supposed to be doing the direct work -- they are supposed to be looking at big picture and directing the work.
3. Most of the work that providers do is cerebral. That's making clinical decisions and, if needed, running codes. The money we make for the institution and the critical services we provide are not dependent on being able to get on and off the floor quickly. That would be so little of our job, and it can be done by others. 
4. Lastly, we are still hiring people in their 60s and 70s, actively. We have people -- very good docs -- who were are hoping don't reture soon, even though they are past the age they could.[/quote]

I know lots of nurses who really don’t do the physical labor of the job anymore.  Some work in schools, one works from home interpreting medical tests (I’m not a nurse so this is what I think she does).

I also feel like hospitals are always desperate for per diem workers so some I know work when they want.  But can always find work.[/quote]

Nurses will always, always have a job.  I work in healthcare admin and we throw so much money at sign on bonuses (although we don’t do retention bonuses…which I personally think is not great but I understand the rationale).  In any case,  we are desperate for nursing staff.

That said, nurses and nursing can be pretty rough. The saying is that “nurses eat their young.”[/quote]

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