So what do I need to do to SUCCESSFULLY move to Oahu?

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Basically, I went to nursing school so that one day I could move to Hawaii! As far as I'm concerned we could live as homeless people in a state park and forage off the land, but the wife demands a bit more (at least a hut with window airconditioning). I've got one year PCU/medsurg tele experience and she has 5 years cardiac ICU experience. We are hoping to move to Florida (we currently live in Indiana) this year and I want to live on Oahu by the age of 45 (as I only half jokingly say to my wife my goal is to die on the pipeline no later than age 50). So what should I do to make myself maximally employable?

Specializes in Critical Care.
Wow! wow!

Why they think you'll move back home per 'canes or actual low pay? They want to see you live in FLA for 6 months to yr. (this might change after the recession. IMO, FLA will be the last out of the recession.. we are tourist-retirement base economy).

Oh my. If you think Florida is a tourist-based economy you really ought to take a look at Hawaii.

I thank my lucky stars each and every day that neither my income nor my husband's income is dependent upon the tourist economy in Hawaii. I thank God for our Union, seniority, and contracts. I thank whoever for the fact that I work in a facility that is hugely solvent and that I left a facility that was NOT at just the right time. I thank God that my husband accrued his pension benefits on the mainland before we moved here. I am truly blessed.

We are, here in Hawaii, classically (and proven over time), at LEAST five years behind the mainland in just about everything. The impact of an economic recovery will take much much longer to show the effects here.

If, as an individual RN, you can snag a position that will provide adequate income, go for it. But if you think you can just pack up, move here, and have your income guaranteed because you are an RN? Those days are long gone. Have that position secured BEFORE you move here or you might be in for a heap of heartache.

Caveat emptor.

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Specializes in ER, Acute, home health, LTC, & Psy.

BSN, or just being completing an RN degree on the mainland is a plus with a lot of employers here in Hawaii. The more letters after your name the better, so specialize and certify yourself. Belong to several nursing journals and affiliations.

Make sure you have it all in black and white before coming, heard of people coming and being jobless and having already signed a rental or mortgage contract! Good luck it is expensive and u might get Rock Fever just from being bored, but if you survive a few years, you'll adjust just fine and see that it is harder to leave than get here!!!

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