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Nurses are sought in in a variety of specialties |
ST. THOMAS, U.S.V.I. (March 1, 2007) – Registered nurses in
all specialties -- including medical-surgical, critical care,
nursing management, and certified nurse-midwives -- are being
sought by Schneider Regional Medical Center (SRMC), a family of
facilities providing comprehensive and specialty care in the
gorgeous tropical setting of the English-speaking U.S. Virgin
Islands.
According to a hospital release, a massive 100-day
recruitment effort targeting RNs began March 1 for Schneider
Regional Medical Center, consisting of the Roy Lester Schneider
Hospital and Charlotte Kimelman Cancer Institute (opened 2006),
both on the island of St. Thomas, and the Myrah Keating Smith
Community Health Center on nearby St. John.
“Exciting professional challenges in these up-to-date
facilities are just as attractive to nurses as the spectacular
living (conditions),” says SRMC’s Chief Nursing Officer Angela
Rennalls-Atkinson, under whose watch the 100 Days recruitment
seeks to bring topnotch nurses to the JCAHO-accredited SRMC.
The recruiting climate for nurses is highly competitive
nationwide, and jobseekers often overlook the English-speaking,
dollar-based U.S. Virgin Islands. Therefore, the initiative
seeks to highlight not only the professional opportunities, but
also unabashedly stresses the major fringe benefits – the
Islands’ natural splendor and convenience as part of the U.S.
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Schneider Regional Medical Center CEO Rodney Miller |
“This is paradise,” says Rennalls-Atkinson, simply. “I have
worked on the mainland myself. I spent most of my time in New
York . One of the things that pushed me here was snowstorms and
temperatures below 30 degrees. Anything below 30 degrees is too
cold!”
Instead of shivering and shoveling snow, she says, her
nursing colleagues enjoy excellent benefits including 19 paid
holidays in tropical beauty that’s a winter-whipped Northerner’s
fantasy.
Rennalls-Atkinson observes that the staffers also generally
enjoy the Islands’ “social climate” -- working with ethnically,
racially, economically diverse population. And, she says, “a
more leisurely pace of life creates dramatically different, more
humane and pleasant days.”
Delphine Olivacce agrees. “I first came as a travel nurse,
and I immediately fell in love with the people on the island,”
says Olivacce, who weighed job offers in Michigan , New York ,
California , Connecticut , and Ohio before committing to the
islands.
“Once I found out it was a U.S. territory, I was more
relaxed,” says Olivacce, now administrative care coordinator and
clinical nurse educator at SRMC. “I actually worked here for a
little while, then left and came back. I worked as a staff
nurse, in intensive care, then moved into supervision.”
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The Charlotte Kimelman Cancer Institute |
That range of opportunities, she notes, is a major attraction
for nurses who want to grow. “We are a small hospital -- a
169-bed facility,” she says. “You have a very strong support
structure here. This is a place where you see your chief nursing
officer everyday, and you have access to senior leadership every
day. It is more family-oriented that most large institutions.”
Registered nurses in all specialties wishing to participate
in Schneider Regional Medical Center ’s 100 Days nurse
recruitment in may contact Marsulite Cohen at 340-776-8311 ext.
5068, or
mcohen@srmedicalcenter.org.
To learn more about Schneider Regional Medical Center , 9048
Sugar Estate, St. Thomas, VI , USA , 00802, visit the hospital’s
website at
www.rlshospital.org.
Images used here provided courtesy of
Schneider Regional Medical Center. This
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