I am not a recruiter for LA Children’s Hospital, nor have I had any contact with the place in about 20 years. That is just a disclaimer for what I am about to post here.

I did work there a great deal through the registry, during the 1980s. It was a really nice place to work and staffing was superb. I mean, like really superb. I have no idea what Children’s is like now, how their nurse:patient ratios go, whether they fired all of their secretaries, or if they routinely give nurses subscriptions to National Geographic in lieu of pay raises. Really, I don’t know much about the place other than what I’ve seen advertised.

I am simply reporting on an ad that I received via Nursing Spectrum, and thought I’d pass it along. If you live in LA and want to work with kids, or would like to live in LA and work with kids, then this sounds like a great deal.

Generous incentives for Experienced Nurses (BSN preferred) include:
• $10,000 sign on bonus
• $1500 monthly housing allowance (for up to 6 months for moves over 250 miles)
• $5000 relocation package (for moves over 250 miles)

www.childrenshospitalla.org/nursing or call 323-361-8578

They are having a Virtual Open House on Thursday, August 23rd, 3-7pm (Pacific Standard Time)
Log on to: http://www.nurse.com/chat

The downside is that it is almost prohibitively expensive to live in LA, at least, to live in a place where you don’t have to worry about bullets flying into your window at night. The $10,000 bonus is not going to go very far in saving for a mortgage, and to be quite honest, the real estate is priced out of proportion and not worth it. When the bubble breaks, many people are going to be stuck with tiny condos that they signed over their soul for, and they will be unable to even break even trying to sell them. Foreclosures are already mushrooming out of control….well anyway, that’s the downside.

The upside is that LA is a fun place to live and work, and I would move back today if I could afford a nice house in a nice area. This sounds like a great deal from Childrens, so I just thought I’d pass it along, for those readers who don’t receive Nursing Spectrum in their mailbox.