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Jobs-A-Plenty for Nurses in New York City

There are more than 8 million people living in and around New York City and all of them will need a nurse at some point in their lives. With the city's large transient population, New York nursing jobs abound.

Why Work In New York?
New York is a great place for a nurse to work. In Manhattan there are over fifty hospitals offering the finest medical care available with some of the highest recovery and lowest patient mortality rates in the world. These top notch facilities want to maintain their reputation, and are willing to pay higher salaries and offer better benefits to keep high quality nurses there. The tradeoff is longer hours and more stress, versus the small community jobs where hours are usually better and the nurse-patient ratio is generally lower.

Among large US cities, New York holds the top spot in terms of nursing job vacancies available.
So, if you are a registered nurse you are guaranteed a lucrative New York nursing job. If you would like to live and work in New York City there is a bright and secure nursing career waiting for you there.

If you're considering relocating to New York City to work there temporarily, consider being a travel nurse. You can read another one of my articles on becoming a travel nurse in New York by visiting my other blog at Travel Nursing Jobs.

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New York Nurse News: Exploited Filipino Nurses

Check out this article on the Exploitation of Filipino Nurses in New York City. The article contains a transcript of Representative Mayong Aguja, an Akbayan member of the Filipino House of Representatives, addressing the Filipino House.

An apt summary of the article is that nurses educated and trained in the Phillipines have been unable to earn a living in the Phillipines. The nurses have taken jobs with international travel nurse agencies promising higher pay, better working conditions and more benefits in the United States (more specifically, New York City). Once the nurses arrived in NYC they were unpleasantly surprised to find things not as they had been promised.

Upon arrival, the nurses were informed that they would be working at facilities other than those originally promised, that health care benefits had been changed (for the worse) and that they would be paid from a third-party (of whom the nurses knew nothing about).

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New York Nursing References


REFERENCES:
New York State Board of Nursing

New York State Nurses Association

National League for Nursing.


HOSPITALS:
Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City


UNIVERSITIES:
SUNY New Paltz: Department of Nursing

New York University College of Nursing

Columbia University School of Nursing

UB School of Nursing

State University of New York

Nursing Students' Association of New York State