The Nurse Chronicle

A recent report by a national business intelligence firm indicates that demand for registered nurses increased significantly in December 2012.  The report by WANTED Analytics™ notes that the 156,000 registered nurse job ads posted in December 2012 represent a 20% increase over the number of registered nurse job ads posted in December 2011. As is to be expected there are wide regional differences in the nurse job market.  The top three cities…

The prospect of the “Medicare sequester” spending cuts set to take effect on March 1st is causing a number of healthcare employers and nurse staffing agencies to scale back their hiring and recruitment plans as they wait to see what will happen. The “Medicare sequester” is part of a series of automatic federal spending cuts (including a 2% reduction in payments to Medicare providers) that will take effect on March…