U.S.A. Florida
Published May 19, 2011
hi floridians
im an rn and thinking of moving to jacksonville.can you suggest any good hospitals,acute or rehab.And good areas to live.Any info would be appreciated.
thanks
s.marie333, ASN, RN
39 Posts
I live in Jacksonville. There are a couple hospitals here in the city. I work at Baptist Medical Center which is really 4 different hospitals that are a system (Downtown, South, Beaches, and Nassau.) Its also a Magnet hospital.There is also Shands which is a trauma hospital, St Lukes and St. Vincents (2 hospitals but they have merged.), Memorial and Orange Park. There is also a Naval hospital on base.
How could you forget Mayo Clinic?! From personal experience, I think this is the best hospital I've ever been in! I was a patient there, so I know first hand :) Of course, I've never worked there, but I was treated so well and the whole healthcare team seemed like the really cared! I will be trying to get a job there when I finish nursing school.
My husband is a corpsman at NAS JAX (navy hospital). I hear good and bad things about it, but he seems to like working there for the most part :)
cookieatpogi
15 Posts
Hi misswhitney! Are you still working at SHANDS? if so, in what unit? do you know the nurse patient ratio in med surg unit? :)
NurseBoogie
40 Posts
Doea anyone know about the hiring process at Baptist South. I had an interview that went really well but I haven't heard anything back yet. The status on my profile for the job went from under mgmnt review to applied. I don't know if that's good or not :-(