As white-hot nursing market cools, a job is no longer a sure thing - Baltimore Business Journal:

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Business at agencies like his could drop furthedr as more hospitals rely on their own staff to help cut Hospitals can pay more in hourlyg wages for agency nurses thanfor hospital-employed Over the next year, will drop the numbert of full-time nurses hired from staffing agencies by to about a dozen, hospital spokesman Justinm Paquette said. That is because more nurses are stayinbg on board because they want thejob security, rathere than contracting with an agenchy that assigns them to differentt hospitals.
“There are nursing jobs out there but employerw arebecoming pickier,” said Carol a dialysis nurse at an outpatient center in When she graduated from the Communityy College of Baltimore County in Catonsvillde three years ago, no one had troubler finding a job. Raines handily got a job and a signing bonus to workat ’zs Shock Trauma unit. That is not the case for some nursingbstudents today. “Some are of our grads are gettinbg jobs,” said Rosemary Mortimer, a nursing teacherf at and president ofthe . “Bur they have to work a little harder.
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