According to Elliot, research has revealed that most nurses will be leaving their new jobs in 18 months. If you take the 20 to 30, it s generally about 2.1 years. When you overlay health care, the turn is even more frequent. There are 14 million workers in health care and at any one point in time there are about 1 million openings. What s interesting, and what we ve come across with health care employers, is the average community hospital has anywhere between 200 and 400 openings, Elliot said.
Nursing continues to be a job seekers market.
But to take advantage of that, nurses need to use the tools that are out there to market themselves. That s what the Internet is, he said. Watch where you put your resume Many of the job sites take some precautions to ensure a nurse s privacy, be aware that this is not a foolproof method that your resume won t fall into the wrong hands. I would take care and give careful thought to posting your resume on line. There s always the chance that your employer could run across it.