New Grad needs info on St. Francis Hospital in LI

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Hey everyone,

I recently got an interview for an RN position at St. Francis Hospital in Roslyn, Long Island. I'm super excited and a little nervous since its the first interview I've gotten since graduating this May. Can anyone please give me some info on the hospital, like the type of atmosphere, support available to new grads, salary, or what its like to interview there? I've researched the hospital like crazy but I would like to hear from anyone who has worked there or knows someone that works there.

Thanks!

I felt the same way about my interview even though I felt I answered the questions pretty well, but didn't receive much feedback neither. However, the recruiter didn't exactly tell me when I'd hear back from them. She told me they'd call me for a second interview once my reference check is complete. as of right now, I'm still waiting for all of my references to complete the survey for me, it's taking longer than expected, but I guess I'll call the recruiter once all my references are complete. Did you do the reference check yet?

fingers crossed. Best of luck to both of us 😁

@Ranik I've basically heard from other people that the second interview is also behavioral questions. In the meantime, It'd be nice if you send the recruiter a thank you letter. And then follow up in a week or two. I've heard that orientation won't start until April 13, and there's another one in June. Good luck

she told me the two weeks ordeal because I asked .I had another interview @ stony brook where I waited for more than a month and then I decided to keep calling myself until they told me " sorry we hired another candidate" . here I have yet to write the thank you letter and yes my references are complete, i am not sure how my interview went especially with the time management question because as a school nurse i haven't really experience that but i had to tell her something . i wish i was more prepared. i felt like i was treated like a number and the interview was a formality because it was arranged after i called her and said i have been applying but never heard anything plus the system keeps telling me I cant apply for more jobs, so she said to come in for interview. let see if we hear anything . keep reminding the people about your reference. good luck to both of us. the wait is unbearable .

@Ranik thank you very much! I have just accepted a job offer at another hospital in Long Island. I wish you the best of luck, and hope St. Francis Hospital gets back to you soon. Good luck!

so very happy for you I wish you good luck in your career

Hello all. I have recieved an offer from SMH and I was wondering if anyone can give me their updated thoughts about working there. What is the environment like? do they offer raises or bonuses? Any info would be helpful! Feel free to email me at [email protected] or here. Tha ks!!!! =)

so very happy for you I wish you good luck in your career

Hello Ranik. Were you ever able to land the job at St. Francis. I am in the same boat as you. Working as a school nurse and desperately trying to take the leap to hospital nursing. I graduated in January of 2012, so I'm an even older new grad than you. If you got something, I'm hopeful I will be able to land something as well.

Wow, it's good to hear things have changed there and they now have better nurse-patient ratios. I worked at St. Francis in the 90s until 2000 and back then units were broken into four districts and each district had 10-11 patients. I worked M3 and it was rare that you didn't work a full district. All beds filled all the time. So, each shift it was either 10-11 patients and acuity was high. Other hospitals would have put these types of patients in a step-down unit or a CCU but not at St. Francis. Every nurse was incredibly overworked. The day shift nurse had one aide and one nurse extender per district. Night shift nurses had to share one aide and one nurse extender per two districts.

Let me tell you things were rough. I worked nights (7p-7:30a) and would arrive at 6:30 to check over my assignment, introduce myself to my patients and check all hanging IVs against orders prior to taking report. Report almost always took longer than 30 minutes since there were 11 complex patients to discuss. On a good night (rare!) my initial assessments with med sweep took until 10:30pm to complete, usually 11pm. But if one of the patients had a problem (chest pain, etc.) or there were patients returning from the cath lab requiring heavy monitoring (often), or patients requiring wound care, etc. then initial assessments/9pm meds weren't completed until 12-1am. Crazy.

There were no real breaks. I ate my lunch at the nursing station in my district while charting. I rarely got out on time, usually leaving at 8-8:30 am (unpaid -- they didn't like you signing out late), and sometimes even later if it was a bad night and I had to catch up on charting after hours. Back in those days charting wasn't computerized.

I'll be honest. All the nurses were miserable. We were all highly stressed, burn out was through the roof. I eventually transferred to the CCU but we were overworked there too. Almost every night I was assigned three critical patients, sometimes very crit. Every now and then it was two patients and those nights felt like heaven. The nights with three were definitely hell.

I don't miss it. At all.

Specializes in Neurosurgery, Neurology.

Does St. Francis take new grads into the ICUs?

Hello everyone, I am starting orientation at St. Francis in two weeks, May 2nd. I am a new grad. Any advice? Thank you!

Does St. Francis take new grads into the ICUs?

Hi, I was hired as a new grad. Did you end up working at St. Francis?

Specializes in Med-Surg/Telemetry.

Congratulations! I am going on my second interview soon with the nurse manager. Do you remember any questions that you were asked?

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