Southern IL and Northern KY

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I will moving to this area from California in March. I would love some information concerning ease of getting a job as a RN with limited experience, patient ratios, hospital reputations, pay rate, and anything else you can tell me. My husband will be going to school in Carbondale, IL but his family will be living in Paducah, KY so not sure yet where we will be living. Thank you!

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Specializes in Nephrology, Cardiology, ER, ICU.

I answered on your other thread in the KY forum - I live in central IL but want to wish you luck wherever you land.

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Specializes in PACU, pre/postoperative, ortho.

Come up a couple hrs north on I57 & you'll have no problem. We're dying for RNs & have few applicants. Southern IL in general is not too hard to find nursing positions.

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Just an update in case anyone else is looking...

It is very easy to find a job. The pay isn't great (but I am coming from CA). The pay actually did improve after a few months due to hospital wide raises. I'm in Paducah, KY. The patient ratios are pretty awful. I work in a critical care unit and regularly take 3 patients. I have had 7 patients in med-surg and 6 patients in cardiac step down unit.

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