Moving to San Diego, CA: where should I work?

Welcome and good luck on your move

Welcome. Moving to the California forum, since your question involves that region.

I work at UCSD hillcrest and love it

What dept?? I'm thinking about applying to their ICU. Do you know what it's like? and more importantly, what is management like?

What dept do you work in?? I'm thinking about applying to the ICU. Have you heard what it's like?? What is management like?

Being a traveler here i have worked on every floor (travelers float first!!) but I am not an ICU nurse so I do not know personally. However I have 2 close friends here that work in the ICU float pool. Which ICU are you going to apply for SICU, BICU,NICU.. any which way they have been in there positions as travelers for a year and i dont really here them ever complain. As for management Im sure they dont get too involved with that. I know they make there schedule and usually get what they ask for. I am actually going to start working on 11east as a staff nurse come january when my contract is up. The management on the 6ths floor and 11\10th have been great. Hope that helps!!

I can tell you where NOT to work, Scripps Memorial La Jolla.

Management is a nightmare, they are constantly renovating, but more importantly, the nurses are miserable (for the most part) and therefore rude and backstabbing to each other.

They have a New Grad ICU intern program that put out about 50 interns this year, so there are lots of inexperienced nurses. It's fine if you are the intern, but it has caused experienced nurses to quit for fear of their license.
Something like 80% of the ICU nurses there have less than 2 years of experience.
They have "mentors" which are there to help the inexperienced nurses--good idea, exept when we are so short staffed, the mentors are pulled to the bedside--or responsible for too many units and nowhere in site if you need them!

They lock you in with a bonus upon hire. If you leave before a year is out, you have to pay it back. So the turn-around is about a year. I've got 2 months left until I can leave!!

what is BICU? Burn unit? I'm thinking SICU or MICU. Whichever has an opening. I just want to be happy with the way the ICU is run and find happy employees!