World Wide Technology, Aramark, Walgreens, KSDK-Channel 5, the FBI and more
Tuesday, March 20 at Emerson Performance Center
Harris-Stowe State University will host its annual career fair on Tuesday, March 20, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., in the university’s Emerson Performance Center.
More than 40 companies, representing various industries such as technology, health care, hospitality and government, are looking to recruit qualified graduates and graduating seniors. University sophomores and juniors are also encouraged to attend, as internship opportunities will be available.
World Wide Technology, Aramark, Walgreens, KSDK-Channel 5, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation are just a few of the organizations expected to participate. This year’s career fair is sponsored by Novartis Pharmaceutical, SSM Healthcare, the Adam’s Mark Hotel, and the United Parcel Service.
This event is free and open to members of the general public who possess an associate degree or higher.
Harris-Stowe State University, located in midtown St. Louis, is a four-year institution that offers 12 degree programs in the areas of teacher education, business administration, information sciences and computer technology, health care management, criminal justice, professional interdisciplinary studies, urban education, hospitality and tourism and accounting. The university, which has been in existence for nearly 150 years, offers the most affordable bachelor’s degree in the city.
Nurse in paradise?
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 modern family of facilities providing comprehensive and specialty care in the gorgeous tropical setting of the English-speaking U.S. Virgin Islands.
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) in the English-speaking, dollar-based U.S. Virgin Islands, says SRMC’s Chief Nursing Officer Angela Rennalls-Atkinson.
“This is paradise,” says Rennalls-Atkinson, under whose watch the 100 Days recruitment seeks to bring topnotch nurses to the JCAHO-accredited SRMC.
“I have worked on the mainland myself,” explains Rennalls-Atkinson. “I spent most of my time in New York. One of the things that pushed me here was snow storms and temperatures below 30 degrees. Anything below 30 degrees is too cold!”
Instead of shivering and shoveling snow, she and her nurses enjoy excellent benefits including 19 paid holidays in tropical beauty that’s a winter-whipped Northerner’s fantasy. Here, a more leisurely pace of life creates dramatically different, more humane and pleasant days. Here, Rennalls-Atkinson says, life simply becomes easier and better.
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.”
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.”
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.
