Nurse Recruiter "Job Opportunities"

Jay

I would like to connect with you both to have you join my network and to send you information on job opportunities I have as they become available. I work with Children's Hospitals Nationally. If either you or someone you would recommend are interested in a position either now or in the future, I would be happy to help you. Please feel free to email me at Jill@melnic.com or call me at 800.886.7906. I look forward to talking with you.

Thank you,

Jill Gilliland

Jill's Introduction:

I have discovered a few things. Today finding a job is like picking out your favorite star in the sky and then finding it again the next night: Monster contains 44 million resumes. CareerBuilder has 17 million. HotJobs has 5 million. And that's just the part of the challenge. Facebook, LinkedIn, Spoke, and numerous other online networks add to the clutter. Plus whatever resumes are posted on the worldwide web. The amount of clamor in the employment marketplace is overwhelming.

If you or someone you know is looking for a job or are considering making a change, you need help. That is my job. I love helping people who help people. Nurses are amazing at helping people, so I want to help. I have a number of jobs identified with hospitals that have asked me to help them find qualified people. I also have an extensive network at hospitals that I use to find the right fit.

Can you please let me know if you or someone you would recommend are interested learning more about the jobs? Below lists a few of available jobs. There is so much more I could tell you so please give me a call at 800.886.7906. If you would like to send me your resume, I will be able to discuss possibilities that might be a fit for you and I can keep it on file for future opportunities.

I look forward to talking with you.

Thank you,

Jill Gilliland

Looking for a new role but need help finding the right fit? Contact Jill by phone or email today to learn how Melnic Consulting Group can find the perfect opportunity for you, in any U.S. location.

Is your friend or colleague considering a change? Help them find the right fit by forwarding this to them today.

Ø CVICU PNP Washington DC, Florida

Ø PICU CNS Greensboro, NC

Ø Med/Surg PNP East Coast

Ø Adult CNS Progressive Care, CNS Perinatal, CNS Critical Care, CNS Oncology Northern California

Ø Adult Cardiac Non-Invasive Cardiac Nurse Manager Northern California

Ø Liver transplant PNP Coordinator Inpatient Outpatient East Coast

Ø PNP Genetics, PNP Dialysis, PNP, PNP Neurosurgery, PNP Cardiac Surgery, PNP Child at Risk Team Midwest

Ø 50/50 Admin Oncology/PNP Long Term Survivor Southern California

Ø PNP PICU Texas, Connecticut

Find more Jobs, Career Help, Help with your Job Search

Jill Gilliland Melnic Consulting Group

800.886.7906 Jill@melnic.com www.melnic.com

A Leader in Healthcare Recruiting!

Hey,

remember that really lame research paper that we had to critique in Dr Stannard's class, the one about the pilot program in northern New Jersey where nurses did home visits with at-risk young moms and mentored them on prenatal health and then how to be good moms for the first two years of their baby's life, at which point the moms "graduated" from the program? Well, that type of program has a name-- Nurse-Family Partnerships (NFPs)-- and such programs have been going on in various forms since 1977. How do I know this? This month's American Journal of Nursing contains no less than three separate articles about NFPs. Did you know, for instance, that California has 8 counties with NFP programs? Oklahoma has a whopping 77 (who knew Oklahoma even had 77 counties?!). The idea for NFPs came to a dude named Robert Olds in 1970 when he got his first job out of college at a day care center (let me guess-- liberal arts major). He observed that "...impoverished, chaotic home environments in which parents abused drugs and alcohol and parents were hostile, rejecting, or neglectful..." corelated to negative outcomes in early childhood development. Laughably obvious to us now, but remember, it was 1970. What's even cooler is that he went on to flesh out the concept-- that of mentoring at-risk moms during their spawn's first couple of years-- at the College of Human Ecology at Cornell University, run by guess who? That's right, the social ecology guru himself, Urie Bronfenbrenner; the same theorist who more than one of us in the MSN program has yoked our Culminating Experiences to, and the same theorist so well-regarded and well-utilized by our beloved Professor van Dam in her own research. The guy who gave us the tome "Human Ecology: Experiements by Nature and by Design," the perect fusion of 70s eco-wholism and post-Skinner behaviorism; the est-fueled hope of groovy self-actualization tempered by the Russian eidos of Stalinist social control. he of "the human psychosocial landscape being analogous to Russian matryoshka dolls" fame. That guy. Ya gotta love him! And Columbia, the most hippie-fied of Ivy League schools of the era, loved him so much, they gave him his own damn college! Forget about my nursing field study, I wanna research Urie!

So anyhow, the crappy Newark-based mentor program we read about (5 counties in NJ have NFP programs, by the way) was just a splinter cell of something so huge and well-studied that the Rand Corporation has determined that a typical NFP intervention has a net benefit of $34,148 to society per family served. That means a return of $5.70 for every dollar invested in NFP. Holy stock options, no wonder Oklahoma's all over it!

Getting back to theory-mongering, the second theoretical frameworker pulling the levers behind NFPs is-- right again!-- Albert Bandura and the embracing bosom of self-efficacy theory! Again, more than one of us is leaning heavily on Mr. Bandura for their field study. And who doesn't love Bandura? His theory could be subtitled "how not to be a f***-up." In fact, let me be the first to say it: Human Ecology and Self-Efficacy are your helpful hippie pals when it comes to theoretical framework building!

if only I wasn't shy...

Hey guys,

Jen Robb (gangsta name: "J-Rod") and me (gangsta name: "D-Nas-T") had an interesting time at the Orphans of Rwanda Benefit (for some reason I keep wanting to say "Orphans of Babylon," which was the title of an obscure Be Bop Deluxe song from the 70s) at the Herbst Exhibition Hall in the Presidio (across the street from the Presidio Bowling Ally). Being a hick from Ohio by way of New Mexico, I always feel self-conscious at events populated with good-looking well-dressed high-powered braniacs. There were like 500 people there that night, and for our $35 student admissions/donations, we were feted with all-you-can-drink California wine in plastic cups and an endless finger food buffet (I especially liked the seasoned fingerling potatoes-- yum!-- but was dismayed at the sheer amount of cured meat product served; I had always assumed that medical nerds associate sausages with unknown future spongiform encephalitis risk, but they were clearly wolfing them down). One of the high-powered UCSF nursing rock stars had supplied a gallery's worth of beautiful photographs of scenes from her global travels for a silent auction, the proceeds going to the Orphans of Rwanda fund. What is this Orphans of Rwanda fund? It's a non-profit dedicated to providing scholarships to deserving Rwandan orphans to attend university, and thereby become the future leaders of that country, which, after much tragedy and disappointment in its short history, now shows signs of great promise. There are 600,000 orphans in Rwanda, out of a total population of around 7 million. See, they had this little thing in 1994 called a genocide, in which almost a million Rwandans were shot, beaten, and macheted to death during the span of 100 days. It holds the distinction of being the most concentrated act of mass murder in modern times, probably all times. As you can imagine, large numbers of orphans were a major by-product of that horror. Hence, Orphans of Rwanda Inc.

The highlight of the evening was hearing Dr. Paul Farmer speak about the efforts of his organization, Partners in Health, to provide heath care to some of the poorest populations of Haiti and now Africa. It was very informal, the talk seemed to consist of Dr Farmer sharing his thoughts about far-ranging political and public health concerns throughout the world. And, as it turns out, he has a great sense of humor.

So this was an event that would have been a great place to network if only I hadn't been so shy and drunk (did I mention that every time you turned around there was somebody offering you a cup of wine?). Looks like it will be an annual event.

Need help in Advance Physiology for Dr. Hardie's class?

On Nov 10, 2007 11:41 AM, Charlotte Kirton wrote:


I will be in the library in one of the study rooms every Tues between
3 and 4:00pm to go over lectures; past and future pertaining to the
final. If you have the capability to let other students know that they
are welcome, that will be great. I plan to pass this Patho class and
am willing to help those interested in passing.

Charlotte

Dana said...

Hey Nightingales and friends,

It was great to see so many of our cohort at the Nursing Symposium at State last Friday! Even though it was a little disappointing as far as recruiter turnout (where was SFGH and CPMC?), it was still worthwhile as far as getting a feel for what the job market is out there right now and what prospective employers are looking for. There seems to be lot of negative buzz about new grad programs drying up and the shortage in general going south. Worry not. These are just momentary blips on the healthcare landscape. So the CA nurse position vacancy rate has gone from 12% to 10%. Boo-hoo! That's still 1 in 10 positions open! And look at the big picture: a shortfall of like 150,000 RNs by the next decade. The (nursing) world is your oyster, my friends! You will all find yourself in management (if that's where you want to be) so fast you'll wonder what happened. Trust me, if you show up to work regularly, have a positive attitude, and prove you are not a total doofus, you will feel the pressure to be a leader in many subtle and not so subtle ways. Take the advice of someone who had a promising career (the lab thing) but made all the wrong choices and F'ed it up mainly because I didn't really consider it a career in the first place and then became so unhappy I had to find another career (phew!): have fun with this nursing thing. Take that "where do I want to be in 5 years/where do I want to be in 10 years" jazz seriously, unless you have plans (like I did oh so long ago) of chucking this doomed civilization and being a hermit on a mountain. Because, horror upon horrors, the civilization may not be doomed after all! In fact, it may desperately need your brains and positive attitude! Maybe John M. has the right attitude: go out there, work hard, buy lotsa toys. Or maybe we should all operate mobile public healthcare vans in medically underserved area and live off the generosity of grants (yes, even that is doable).

Anyway, it was nice to see so many people at the Symposium Friday.

daner

Welcome to San Francisco State University RN-MSN and BSN Groups

Hello Everyone,

Welcome to the SFSU RN-MSN and BSN group hosted at LinkedIn. The reason why I developed this group is to keep us all in contact and expand our network of colleagues in the healthcare industry. As you might notice, I made this site open to all SFSU RN's with the hope that we can attract our RN alumni and encourage our future peers to use this network as well.

There is a "HUGE" opportunity in my opinion to professionally network with other professionals, corporations, and institutions of higher learning that share our passion. This site can serve as a springboard for a more promising nursing career or a way to get your foot in the door of an organization you truly want to be a part of. Who better to recommend you than a fellow SF State Nurse! But most of all, consider this site as a way to nurture and support everyone who has passed through the doors of San Francisco State University's nursing program. -Jay Escobar