Another shell game is in play, one might think. Balancing what nurses can be pulled from ER to the floor before the ER disolves into pandamonium. Neat trick: pull nurses from ER to cover floor vacancies, so you don't have to close beds. However, you just shifted the bottleneck to the ER. Patients certainly notice when they have waited hours to be put in a room, and they are taken past empty rooms that they don't have nurses to cover!
The agency nurses that they procure might be fine--or not. They are certainly being paid more than the staff (some of which got a nickel raise this last evaluation. Supposedly the rate is determined by the director, not HR.) But it takes time to find anything in a new environment.
So now we will have temp nurses, respiratory techs, radiology techs, and radiologists--all being paid more than the regular staff which was capped. Is there any doubt as to why the other hospitals (Bonham, Clarksville, as well as Dallas) are being flooded with applications from PRMC staff?
If you have the email address and websites of recruiters and HRs that have been helpful to you, post them as a comment, which it certainly will be. The hospital might need some new recruiters, but we definitely do.
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