Where Is The Worst place to work in Florida?

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Hello All Florida Nurses & Travelers

I want everyone to be Upfront & Honest With this One! Where is the Absolute WORST PLACE to work as an RN, Or as a Nurse in General In any part of Florida? I want to know of any places that I should avoid, such as Backbreaking work, Low Pay, Poor Staffing, anything considered Negative or Unsuitable. Also, High Liability too. I would much rather hear it straight from the horses mouth instead of finding out the hard way! All Honest Opinions & Personal Experiences will be Greatly Appreciated! If anyone wants to know about California, just ask. Please Respond. Thanks;)

Specializes in ITU/Emergency.

Thanks hlfpnt! Feeling slightly disheartened about the whole nursing thing. Just moved here from England,where conditions are terrible and I need to start the process of getting my licence but have no motivation whatssoever and keep putting it off! Theres always cleaning and unpacking to do...... ;-)

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Specializes in LTAC, Homehealth, Hospice Case Manager.

You're welcome!

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Specializes in Psychiatric, All hospital departments, e.

Baptist Health System is great - Baptist Medical Center Beaches is super. Low staffing ratios (ICU 1:1 - 1:2, PCU 1:2 - 1:3, M/S 1:4 - 1:5, Surgical Monitored 1:4 - 1:5), lift team (soon to have all lift equipment and become no lift), team work - including the managers, great VP Nursing. Pay is competitive with other hospitals. Obtaining System Magnet status. I have worked other places and the ratios were more like 1:6 - 1:8 on M/S and Surgical. It is friendly and nice here.

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Specializes in Psychiatric, All hospital departments, e.
Just moved to jacksonville....how about the hospitals here???

See my note further down the responses. Baptist Beaches.

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Specializes in LTAC, Homehealth, Hospice Case Manager.

Eileen,

Are you familiar with the Downtown facility...can you give any encouraging info on that? Bchs is a pretty good drive for me...more that 81 miles round trip, but I do know that is a good hospital as I have been a pt there twice!

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Specializes in Psychiatric, All hospital departments, e.
The ones I've heard nasty things about are Shands, Memorial, Orange Park Medical, & Kindred. The last three are for profit facilities (Memorial & OP are sister hospitals) & are bad enough they can't keep staff. On the other hand there's Baptist, St. Lukes, St. Vincent's, Mayo, & Brooke's Rehab that I really haven't heard any negative comments on.

This is totally true!! :uhoh21:

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Specializes in Psychiatric, All hospital departments, e.

Downtown is fine. Bigger and maybe not the ratios that we have sometimes. Acuity is higher but the philosophy is the same. Good benefits. I'd work there.

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My mom had cardiac cath done at St Vincent's in Jax. I loved that hospital, and everyone was very friendly, and the nurses all seemed to like it there. The doctors were not pains, and seemed to respect the nurses (in the cardiac cath/same day surgery area).

I think the Christian run hospitals (Baptist and Catholic) tend to care more about the people who work there....based on experience from a patient stand point, and the nurses and staff we were in contact with.

I could be wrong, but that was the impression we had.

Good luck!

Deb

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Downtown is fine. Bigger and maybe not the ratios that we have sometimes. Acuity is higher but the philosophy is the same. Good benefits. I'd work there.

Thank you for your reply. I've been giving alot of thought to trying a PRN position there. I currently work at one of the nasty facilities previously mentioned & am miserable, but desperately trying to finish out my first year because I know it looks better...I have 3 1/2 months to go!

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wow.....one of my nurses who has been taking care of my daughter for the past 8 years, just finished her masters recently through UOP (she's an elementary school nurse by day, & home care nurse by night at my house)...and just told me the other day that they are moving to Florida.....her husband is a teacher & has been foaming at the mouth to move there for as long as they have been married. ....She got licensed in Sept for there & had their house for sale since then......and they have a house being built as we speak. The are going to Kissimmee /St Cloud I believe??? Her husband has always been disney disney disney, you know ( a big kid himself)They go a minimum 3 times a year, every year & have for the past 14 years. I have a friend who lives in Deltona/Lake Mary area (originally grew up in Chicago, and is a Doctor in Speech Pathology there) & she says so many people come there with "Disney Vision" that it ends up being nothing they thought it was & move out of there. Her & her hubby are building a home in SC due to the hurricane issues alone.......She always said she could care less about Disney and some people forget there is a real world beyond disney.....lol

She may be getting a teaching job in nursing or big corporate nursing job down there I am assuming......but I thought that's a big thing to pick up & just move there without really knowing how it is to live & work there,and to have a huge mortgage to pay on top of that if you end up hating it....... I wanted to move there after visiting the 1st time..yes I was all ooh's & aaahs that 1st time visiting.......now after going a few times....I would not move there for anything or any amount of $$$$.......visit yes, but move there for good no.

They have a 13 yr old daughter & 11 year old son........ all I can say is good luck with that especially moving them there at those ages......

Anyway it doesn't sound like it's all what it is cracked up to be.........I know a couple of people who moved there & ended up coming back home again.....

So, for all of you who have been there for a long time, do alot of people who weren't born & raised there move there on a whim & see it's not all they expected it to be? Just curious.....

Actually I have seen where Disney is usually looking for RNs to work in the park and at their clinic for the hotel guests :LOL: :)

It might be fun, or it could burst the bubble of Disney, ya know??

:)

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Thank you for your reply. I've been giving alot of thought to trying a PRN position there. I currently work at one of the nasty facilities previously mentioned & am miserable, but desperately trying to finish out my first year because I know it looks better...I have 3 1/2 months to go!

Please look into it as there are many employess who have done the same as you that I know of. I have two managers who left one of the nasty hospitals.

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My mom had cardiac cath done at St Vincent's in Jax. I loved that hospital, and everyone was very friendly, and the nurses all seemed to like it there. The doctors were not pains, and seemed to respect the nurses (in the cardiac cath/same day surgery area).

I think the Christian run hospitals (Baptist and Catholic) tend to care more about the people who work there....based on experience from a patient stand point, and the nurses and staff we were in contact with.

I could be wrong, but that was the impression we had.

Good luck!

Deb

From what I hear your impression is correct. I have to agree with all you said above. Thank you.

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