Unity Health offering big bonuses in effort to sign nurses

Unity Health has offered referral and signing bonuses in the past, but now they’re going bigger than ever, with a $15,000 signing bonus for new bedside nurses. LaDonna Johnston, the vice president of Unity Health’s Newport campus, says that while Newport’s campus doesn’t have as much of a need as the primary campus in Searcy, she’s seen nurses burn out and get sick often. And being one nurse down in a more rural hospital is a bigger hit than it is at a larger facility.