The past month has been one of the most challenging times for me since I started working in Nurse Recruitment at Clarian nearly a year ago. I’ve been given a new and amazing support specialist; and I took on responsibility for recruiting Student Nurse Externs (SNEs) in addition to Critical Care nurses, LifeLine nurses and ER or emergency nurses.
I put out a “call” for those who had been on the student nurse waiting list since Feb/Mar and contacted our Clarian nursing scholarship recipients to measure interest for 29 positions that I was asked to fill. Wow! The response was tremendous, and the candidates had to compile and provide a portfolio of four documents before we determined their availability for interview.
I took a week’s vacation while deep in the throes of this work and came back to the most stressful week I’ve had in Nurse Recruitment! Getting everything organized, setting up over 50 interviews (for student nurses alone! This did not count the RN positions!), catching up on an e-mail in box that was to its limit and voice mails that filled my box to capacity literally gave me a headache that lasted for three days!
After eight days of catching up and a couple of extra long work days that required some work at home, I finally did it! I caught up! What a sense of accomplishment as well as what fun getting to meet and help place these eager SNEs into their very first nursing positions.
Lesson learned: NO vacation during the peek SNE hiring months!! Tee hee (of course my vacation was planned well in advance of my taking on this responsibility). After six years spent as a nursing manager, I have learned to just accept that it is always hard to get away and always hard when you come back. From the recruitment perspective though, it was much more challenging because my job is customer service and many things just waited on me to return and pick up where I left off!
Julie
Julie Ruschhaupt, BS, RN, Clarian Health Nurse Recruiter
JRuschhaupt@clarian.org
317-278-7082
To be a registered nurse at Clarian, visit Registered Nursing Position Indiana.
Search for available Nursing Jobs at Clarian Health by Nurse Specialty.
I put out a “call” for those who had been on the student nurse waiting list since Feb/Mar and contacted our Clarian nursing scholarship recipients to measure interest for 29 positions that I was asked to fill. Wow! The response was tremendous, and the candidates had to compile and provide a portfolio of four documents before we determined their availability for interview.
I took a week’s vacation while deep in the throes of this work and came back to the most stressful week I’ve had in Nurse Recruitment! Getting everything organized, setting up over 50 interviews (for student nurses alone! This did not count the RN positions!), catching up on an e-mail in box that was to its limit and voice mails that filled my box to capacity literally gave me a headache that lasted for three days!
After eight days of catching up and a couple of extra long work days that required some work at home, I finally did it! I caught up! What a sense of accomplishment as well as what fun getting to meet and help place these eager SNEs into their very first nursing positions.
Lesson learned: NO vacation during the peek SNE hiring months!! Tee hee (of course my vacation was planned well in advance of my taking on this responsibility). After six years spent as a nursing manager, I have learned to just accept that it is always hard to get away and always hard when you come back. From the recruitment perspective though, it was much more challenging because my job is customer service and many things just waited on me to return and pick up where I left off!
Julie
Julie Ruschhaupt, BS, RN, Clarian Health Nurse Recruiter
JRuschhaupt@clarian.org
317-278-7082
To be a registered nurse at Clarian, visit Registered Nursing Position Indiana.
Search for available Nursing Jobs at Clarian Health by Nurse Specialty.
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