The Case for Practicing Nursing in Las Vegas

Originally posted by juls
i have been here since 1999 and at first was an adjustment not climate coming from so cal, but the people!!!!! But i have adjusted just fine, since i am no longer in the hospital setting, i choose office setting and love it. i avoid traffic via surface streets much faster than the crappy freeways out here, just like so. cal. i love the heat, hate the cold due to the winds when they pick up during the cold season, i wish it would be warm all the time, i can handle the 120's just fine just let me be by the water!!!! oh wait, the lake is disappering, water shortage is serious out here! Stop building. there is watering restrictions, cant even wash your car at your house, so here i drive in my nice german car that i worked so hard for and its flipping dirty, and the car washes arent cheap and do a crappy job, my dog can do a better job. ITS ALL ABOUT LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION. we all know crime is everywhere you just need to know where to move, stay out of the ghetto, thats where it all happens lol, no its everywhere, my hubby is CSI and tells me about all the bad areas, so i have a sense of where to stay out of, for my safety. Remember location location location. Many hospitals not many nurses, if i needed to be flown to the hospital for trauma reasons i would mark on my chest in ink take me to a different state, this place is scarry. our own governor went out of state for surgery.... tell ya something, its sad but true, i hope vegas gets better in the health care thing along with the malpractice issues, that scares our docs away the good ones!!!!!!!
so all in all vegas is wonderful place to reside, if you like the heat, and want to have something to do, i pretty much avoid the strip like the plague, im only there when i have company

I left Vegas a couple of years ago. Working 3 days a week 12 hour shifts my usual daycare bill for 2 kids was 750$ a month. It is very difficult to find decent childcare. The schools are beyond bad, overcrowded, poorly funded , violent unsafe, best thing I ever did getting my kids out. So put private school or homeschooling into your budget,

1200square foot house 200,000$. Make sure you save up a down pmt. That's if you're lucky enough to find one. I would say not family friendly.

It can be a fun place to stay for a while for adults but raising kids in a party town is a bad deal for them. I've seen too many kids turn onto drugs, raves, and the bigtime sex trade in that town.

I worked at Valley, UMC, and did agency extra shifts at Sunrise, Desert Springs. I've worked so short staffed so many shifts that I couldn't count. Yes it's been a couple of years but it was common nightly to have 10 to 14 pts per nurse and maybe 2 CNAs to help out the whole floor. I couldn't count how many times I cried all the way home in the morning overwhelmed beyond belief. I worked Ortho/med/surg.

That was my experience in LV. No amount of money could get me back.