Moving To KY- Any Suggestions???

allnurses Guide · Mar 1, 2005

Hi there! Sorry that it took me so long to reply!

If you wish to stay in Lexington, I personally would probably recommend the VA. Great benefits, pretty nice people to work with, and I like the way the floors are set up. The downsides are: not much variety in your patients; they are mostly going to be middle aged-and older MEN. Also, it seemed like supplies were much more limited than in a private hospital, like the one that I work at.

Shriner's Hospital is also one place that I would KILL to work at, but it's really difficult to get hired on there. Virtually NO turnover.

If you wouldn't mind driving a little bit, you can come work at Frankfort Regional Medical Center with me! :) Not a bad place to work at all. During the flu seasons, it can be one hellish place to work, but the rest of the year, it isn't bad.

nurselily3 · Mar 3, 2005

I work at UK. Love it. I traveled for a while to see what other places were like..realized that we get treated pretty well here. Lots of people leave and come back thinking they will find it better. I have also worked in a few different areas at UK.. the one's I've been in have been great.

bbcewalters, NP · Mar 5, 2005

HI,

Do you have any contact info for the VA, I will also be moving in June of this year. I will be a new grad looking for my first job. I have looked on USAJOBS, but there are no postings for nurses and I can't get in touch with a HUMAN to talk with anyone...

Thanks for your help

Bobbi Walters

Hi there! Sorry that it took me so long to reply!
If you wish to stay in Lexington, I personally would probably recommend the VA. Great benefits, pretty nice people to work with, and I like the way the floors are set up. The downsides are: not much variety in your patients; they are mostly going to be middle aged-and older MEN. Also, it seemed like supplies were much more limited than in a private hospital, like the one that I work at.
Shriner's Hospital is also one place that I would KILL to work at, but it's really difficult to get hired on there. Virtually NO turnover.
If you wouldn't mind driving a little bit, you can come work at Frankfort Regional Medical Center with me! :) Not a bad place to work at all. During the flu seasons, it can be one hellish place to work, but the rest of the year, it isn't bad.

cnolan · Mar 8, 2005

Hey again! Sorry it's taken so long to reply, but I'm in nursing school, and we all know that leisure time is limited there! :rotfl:

How far is the drive to Frankfort? Do they hire GNs? Or just RNs? (I mean, it wouldn't be that huge of a problem, considering I'd be moving in August haha, but you know!)

Easton518 · Mar 27, 2005

I moved from Lexington a little over a year ago. Great place to live. I miss it alot. I worked most recently for UK Children's Hospital. UK has great retirement, but raises were pretty low compared to Central Baptist. UK pays for 6 hrs a semester of education too. They pretty much funded my MSN. If you want to do Peds, UK is your best option. Although I left somewhat unhappy(not with my unit), I loved my job. I also worked at St. Joseph (main, not East). It was fine too, they just didn't have a NICU at the time. St. Jo East now has a small NICU. UK used to provide Neonatology services for them, but have pulled out.

allnurses Guide · Mar 27, 2005

Frankfort is about 25 minutes from Lexington, depending on the part of Lexington that you are coming from. :) And what do you mean by GN? Frankfort hires RN's and LPN's, but the LPN's work primarily in either the ER or the Endoscopy unit... the floors really don't use LPN's anymore.

brudjazz · Apr 7, 2005

RealNurseWitch, I am on here late tonight absorbing as much information about the nursing field as I can. I've been struggling since 1998 to make money in IT (only getting worse with the ever increasing outsourcing of IT to countries like India), and I truely have always wanted to take care of people. I never really took the leap toward nursing because I suffer from Aphthous Stomatitis (mouth ulcers, the ones that sometimes appear on my tongue are THE worst pain I've ever experienced) and am hearing-impaired (wear hearing aides). My wife and I have agreed that by the end of this summer if I'm not employed in IT or making a lot of money self-employed that I will start taking classes at UK (probably LCC or MCC, since it would be cheaper) toward obtaining my LPN. I do have 5 months of CNA experience (1997), so I know *something* about nursing. Besides, I get to hear about all kinds of things from my wife about nursing, LOL. Anyway, I thought that I would ask you if your place of employment would consider hiring an LPN whose entire nursing career has been spent in geriatrics (my wife has been an LPN since 1991, and has a superb reputation in western Massachusetts....we moved down here last July). She's been hinting at wanting to get out of working in the nursing homes, and trying a different setting. I know that she wants to go back to school, but she feels she doesn't have the smarts to do so. She says she feels very insecure as a nurse, that she would never do well enough academically to complete her education toward her RN license. I know otherwise, not a person in my lifetime have I met who is as organized and has as strong a memory and ability to pick up new material as fast as her. Being that she isn't very aggressive about her search for a better opportunity as a nurse, I'm complimenting her by doing the aggression part. If she sent you her resume (she applied to UK, but has heard nothing from them....I think it's due to her either working in nursing homes her entire career, or that her resume needs some work) would you mind forwarding it to your place of employment? We live in Sadieville, Kentucky, which is about a 45 minute commute to Lexington, and I realize that the commute to Frankfort would be even longer. We had to cancel her insurance because it was too expensive for us. She was paying $425+ per month for just the two of us, for CHA insurance. I need a lot of work on my mouth (correction of bite, removal of wisdom teeth and two others to create better spacing in my mouth, mouth guard to prevent me from grinding my teeth at night), and the fact that CHA wouldn't cover it was just the icing on the cake. I also wonder what I should do toward meeting my dream of becoming an LPN. Would I need to be a CNA for a year in the state of Kentucky before I can enter a nursing program or to even be an LPN? Are there any employers that you know of in or near Lexington that would assist with the costs of going to school to be an LPN? So many questions, I hope that I haven't chased you away! I'm just hoping to start on the path toward being a nurse (something that I have thought about for many years), and I want to see to it that my wife has the opportunity to further herself in her career. I know that she doesn't want to look back on her life as an old woman, and regret never doing anything with her career other than working in a nursing home.

Hi there! Sorry that it took me so long to reply!
If you wish to stay in Lexington, I personally would probably recommend the VA. Great benefits, pretty nice people to work with, and I like the way the floors are set up. The downsides are: not much variety in your patients; they are mostly going to be middle aged-and older MEN. Also, it seemed like supplies were much more limited than in a private hospital, like the one that I work at.
Shriner's Hospital is also one place that I would KILL to work at, but it's really difficult to get hired on there. Virtually NO turnover.
If you wouldn't mind driving a little bit, you can come work at Frankfort Regional Medical Center with me! :) Not a bad place to work at all. During the flu seasons, it can be one hellish place to work, but the rest of the year, it isn't bad.