Need 2 hear from RNs in Jacksonville & Orlando

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Need 2 hear from RNs in Jacksonville & Orlando

I'm a new FloridaRN. I plan on moving from the Gulf Coast area in 3 years in hopes of better financial rewards in either Jacksonville or Orlando.

How much is the pay for RNs? What's the $$$$ for a new house? How's the schools for children? What's your nurse/pt ratio? Do you have respiratory therapist and IV therapy to help out with the RNs? Any signing bonus? How's your bene's?

Thanks 4 your time and many thanks 2 U in advance.

Warhawk320

PROUD2BNRN

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Jacksonville pays their RN's such different scales depending on where you work and what shift you work. They start new RNs out around $18-22, weekenders and nighters at $25. PRN's and agency nurses get andywhere from $25-ish to $50 an hour. As for the benefits - ??? I am covered under my husbands.

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I'm a new RN-BSN & can't get an interview.... perhaps in a couple of years it will be better for you. Patient ratios vary dramatically from facility to facility... 5 on the low end to 8 or 9 on the high end for med-surg from what I've seen in clinicals.

Your best source for info on housing, schools, etc. would be sites like citydata.com, zillow.com, or trulia.com.

I've never seen an IV therapy tech in a hospital. Nurses do all IVs. Respiratory gives breathing treatments and sets up ventilators, which RN's monitor. I haven't seen a sign-on bonus in Jacksonville since 2002.

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Specializes in COS-C, Risk Management.

Above pay ranges sound about right, provided that you can actually get hired. It only took me a month to find a position that I wanted, but I had a hard time getting interviews. Out of the 20 or so positions that I applied for (and hounded), I only managed to get two interviews (one with the company that I wanted to work for all along, thank goodness). And I'm not a new grad--been an RN for 10 years, oodles of great expereince (if I do so say so myself) and a BSN to boot. Point of the story: it's hard to get a job in Jax. The only place I know that's offering a signing bonus is Specialty Hospital.

Housing is plentiful, although not exactly cheap, it's not prohibitive, either. Houses in my neighborhood (Mandarin) run 2000 sq ft, +/-, sell for $220K and up (when they sell). Florida schools are among the worst in the nation (I think we rank #48th, last I heard), overcrowded with severely underpaid teachers. Homeschooling is very popular here, with good reason.

The pt ratios I can't answer, as I don't work in hospital. Good luck.

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Specializes in family, internal, pediatric.

School districts: Clay and St. John's County have good school districts. Duval county, which is Jacksonville, lacks a good school system, there are magnet schools, which are in areas of the city where schools would have been closed already.

You can work in jacksonville and live in Clay county, good schools, more house for your money. I have no infor. on RN salary, I am a nurse practitioner, family.

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