and last updated 2021-07-26 18:55:27-04
LAKELAND, Fla. â Lakeland Regional Health is hosting a weekly job fair called Walk-in Wednesday, and there are various positions the hospital is aggressively recruiting for.
âIncludes our registered nurses, our respiratory therapist. We have a position within the medical center called patient care assistant, patient care associate,â said Scott Dimmick, Lakeland Regional Health Chief Human Resources Officer.
This comes at a time when hospitals across the country are facing a nursing shortage.
âWe have nurses aging out and retiring from the workforce and then COVID kind of exacerbated some of that. So, we are in a very good position staffing-wise, but obviously, everyoneâs kind of feeling the strain,â said April Novotny, Chief Nurse Executive.
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