International Recruitment Efforts @ HCA

For international nurses interested in working in the US, we offer assistance with immigration & placement needs. Our third party vendor All About Staffing offers free Visa processing & passage to the US as well as no placement immigration or attorney fees! Their International Recruitment Program is primarily aimed to hire Nursing Professionals for their direct placement to HCA facilities in US. Applicants who have passed CGFNS/IELTS or Licensure (NCLEX-RN) exam/IELTS are preferred. Applicants from China & Taiwan are also encouraged to apply. They offer competitive salaries and range of other benefits including arranging US Licensure exam entirely at their costs. Full Time Positions with excellent hourly pay. Relocation Incentives. Housing Assistance. Education and Licensure support. Health/Disability Benefits. Dental Insurance. Life Insurance. To read more about their program, please visit their website directly at www.allaboutstaffing.com.

Nurse creates keepsakes for families of stillborn babies

Below article honorably describes Laurie Van Damme’s unique memorial gift idea for grieving parents of stillborns. Knowing affected families myself, I am delighted to promote Laurie’s work Healing Hearts Media here on my blog to share with my readers & for future reference. Please read on:

“Pastel colors cover the walls. Babies gurgle and cry. Parents coo and cradle them for the first time. Lives begin in the labor and delivery unit at Brandon Regional Hospital. • But in a storage room down the hall, it is quiet. There are bins stuffed with bonnets and booties, plastic bottles with “Holy Water” labels, doll clothes in pale shades of pink and blue. • This is where Laurie Van Damme goes when a baby dies. • Today the baby has a name. He is 15 ounces and 10½ inches. He died after 20 weeks in his mother’s womb. Today he will wear blue. He will lie beside a blanket. He will hold a rattle in his hand. • The beeping of Van Damme’s digital camera will be the only sound in the room.”

To read the full article, please visit St. Petersburg Times online.