Relocating to Kansas

The job market for nurses is very tight right now. If you are dependent on your income, I would start looking before you move. There is not a lot out there. You didn't specify what town in Kansas, but I would take it to mean you will be near Wichita? Possibly near Topeka? St. Francis and Wesley in Wichita are both good to work for from what I hear. Stormont-Vail in Topeka is supposed to be top notch & nurses like it there. I don't think you will be able to get an ER job right away though; the market is too tight from what I am told. About the only thing anyone with less than 10 years experience, and/or an ARNP license can get is med-surg, hospice, or long term care. I see ICU positions posted once in a while. I live in Kansas, but am not in that area. I know of it from friends & coworkers. Others can probably answer the salary question better, but I think the lower 20s will be more like it unless you are in the float pool/PRN pool. Many hospitals here have experience pay scales in 5 year incriments, which means that you get "new grad pay" until you reach that 5 year mark. Hope this helps a little.

Stormont, in Topeka, pays about 13 cents above base for about each year of experience. If you go on their website pay scales are listed if you click on a specific job. The whole hospital is going through major remodeling and a trauma center just opened there. It does seem like ICU and the ER hire new grads only. Most nurses that work there were offered a job while still in RN school or they worked down there as techs. Hope that helps.

Do not work at Select Speciality Hospital in Overland Park..it has become ghetto..I only went back to work there because no one else was hiring..short staffed, refuses to use agency cna's..instead, they will give the tech's up to 9 patients a piece..nurses get 5

Wow- I wish I only had to take five patients apeice! We usually take about six on day shift, with one cna per at least twenty patients! And its one in one out all day long. Just remember- their are always places where the grass is covered in poo with no one to clean it up! Your job could always be worse- or worse yet- you could be waiting in the unemployment line!

To Relocating in Kansas- I am interested to see if you ever found a job?