Anyone have experience working at Monmouth County Hospitals?

Avoid Bayshore Community Hospital like the plague......


I worked at Riverview Medical Center in Red Bank NJ for about 3 years before moving to SC. It was a great place to work, you will see acute patients, but it still has a community-hospital feel. It mainly trains nurses so you won't see many residents, interns getting in your way. I had a good orientation as a nurse extern. The benefits are great I hear, (I was per diem, and didn't need any) and the hospital system (Meridian Health) was the first Magnet hospital system in the Nation.

I worked as an extern on their Complex Care/telemetry/ICU stepdown floor, which is a great place for a new grad to get a lot of skills, like vents, peritoneal dialysis, cardiac drips, etc. I also worked in the ICU, which was a great experience.

Check out their website at Meridianhealth.com


Jersey Shore University Medical Center and Ocean Medical Center are also in the system, and JSUMC is a Level I trauma and Level III perinatal center.


I plan on moving back in a year or two, and plan on going back to Meridian. I LOVED it!!!


The pay ranges from $23hr-$28hr days/nights plus educational and health benefits, plus double time on holidays. Good Luck!

I have a friend who works at Centre State Medical Center in Freehold and she loves it.

I'm a little less thrilled about it because when I was living in Howell, I had fallen. I went to their ER and their orthopedist said I sprained it. I took it at their word and did what they said. Well the pain plagued me for many weeks after that so I went to my own orthopedist who took x-rays and showed me that the ankle had actually been BROKEN. They had to re-break it and re-set it so that it would heal properly. To this day it just hasn't been the same. So I have a personal aversion, lol.