No jobs for Nurses

I have just heard from another nurse that is unable to get a job due to the mere presence of a Board Order. For some reason, some employers have decided that any disciplinary probation warrants termination or a refusal to hire. The employers are not reading the facts that led to the Order and too often they are refusing to employ nurses that either made errors due to mitigating factors or nurses that agreed to the Board's disciplinary restrictions purely because they could not afford to fight the BON.

Employers should take the time to read the Orders, check references and throughly interview nurses. They are turning away extremely qualified, caring professionals. Too often the nurses who take the difficult patients or that are in a charge position are the ones that get investigated by the Board simply because they put themselves out there to care for patients, while the nurses who show up, take simple assignments and never fully engage are kept safe. Ask yourself--which type of nurse would you rather have care for you.

So, EMPLOYERS---Give the nurses a chance! You are losing out on hiring competent, caring, experienced nurses who just happen to have been in the wrong place at the wrong time or who decided to continue working even though the unit was short and because of their dedication, they were overwhelmed and made an error.