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To: Victor Lazlo who wrote (141733)	4/21/2002 12:18:08 PM
From: H James Morris	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164684

Is there an shortage of Nurses in Mass? Well, there is in California. Trust me. >>Ronan Umali is the kind of nurse the health-care industry wants to help ease its chronic staffing shortage. He's young--27--in a rapidly aging profession, and male in a female-dominated field that women are leaving in droves. His eagerness to help with any task quickly won over his fellow nurses on Five South, a medical-surgical unit at Kaiser Permanente's Woodland Hills Medical Center. Unfortunately for Five South, Umali will be gone in a matter of weeks. He will be working at a Maryland hospital and, after that, at a hospital in Honolulu. Umali is a traveling nurse who works in three-month stints. He gets his assignments through a San Francisco-based medical staffing services company aptly called Across America. "I get a housing allowance. I get a free rental car, free air fare. They pay for everything," he said. Umali exemplifies the rapid changes overtaking the nursing profession as hospital companies seek creative ways to cope with the high turnover and shortage of qualified nurses. The big chains are paying signing bonuses for these traveling free agents of the industry, raiding one another's staffs and helping nurses repay their student loans in exchange for a commitment of as little as three months of work.<< latimes.com