Are there nurses from Jacksonville here?

Shands is not terrible. I work there and I love it. Its the "county" hospital, we serve alot of the indigent population. Is it hard to work here? Acuity wise yeah, and we dont have the prettiest rooms, but I guarantee 6 months at Shands and you will get hired anywhere. Git R Done.

Someone asked about specialty hospital. I did clinicals there in school and you really have got to be a special person to work there. Everyone there has contact precautions MRSA, VRE, c-diff, you name it they got it. Most patients have wounds, decubs, wound vacs. If you like wound care thats the place. They have an in-house dialysis unit and a some pts on the vent. I want to say its a 50 bed hospital. I dot know about pay, but the food there sucks lol.

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I worked Shands three years. There are some terrible people working there just like anyone other place. How long you been a nurse ? A couple of years maybe ? I am glad for your rose colored glasses. Shands I believe is an awful place to work with the wrong supervisors or inexperienced ones.
reply. Shands is an awful place to work.

Nurses are going to have to unite to make changes. We need a strong nursing union in the state of florida. I would be willing to start one. God forbid the next nurse that is treated unfairly by an institution or system. I will take them to every task known to man or woman.