rhode island hospital

curlysin · Sep 20, 2006 04:19 PM

hi guys

please please if you have any information on this hospital could you share, sounds good. whats pay, working conditions etc like??

what rhode island like to live?

thanks in advance

RNRao · Oct 11, 2006, 06:09 PM

Hello R.I. hospital is part of Lifespan which includes affiliations with 4 other hospitals. RIH has a union, manditory OT and also can mandate you to stay extra if someone calls out for their shift. It is a trauma equipt hospital actually the only one in R.I and is also teaching. It is a huge hospital that is very busy always. Hope this can bring some ideas to you.

KellieNurse06 · Oct 11, 2006, 06:17 PM

Originally Posted by curlysin

hi guys

please please if you have any information on this hospital could you share, sounds good. whats pay, working conditions etc like??

what rhode island like to live?

thanks in advance

I go to school in RI, have done rotation at Hasbro which is part of RI Hospital. A good friend of mine is a nurse at Women & Infants. A few of my classmates actually work there at RIH & I honestly have not heard anything bad about RIH, we do our study group sometimes in their huge cafeteria....I am actually going to try to do a critical care internship there when I graduate in Dec...I am waiting for the packet to come as we speak. RI is just like any other place to live...it all depends on what part & what part of town. I hear the area right around the hospital is a bad area although I have walked many times around there for parking way up by W&I..I have never actually personally seen anything bad....but it was also late afternoon/early evening.......I hope to get into that program though....Go on their website..lots of info about them......they seem like a good place to work for impo Good Luck!!

*suzy253* · Oct 11, 2006, 06:51 PM

Some of my fellow grads are now working at RI Hospital, Hasbro and Women and Infants. All are great hospitals in Providence. It's true that the area they're located in isn't one of Providence's best. Haven't heard any complaints from anyone either.
Good thing about RI is that everything is so close since it's such a small state. Doesn't take long to get from one end of the state to another.

ortess1971 · Oct 23, 2006, 05:27 PM

Originally Posted by KellieNurse06

I go to school in RI, have done rotation at Hasbro which is part of RI Hospital. A good friend of mine is a nurse at Women & Infants. A few of my classmates actually work there at RIH & I honestly have not heard anything bad about RIH, we do our study group sometimes in their huge cafeteria....I am actually going to try to do a critical care internship there when I graduate in Dec...I am waiting for the packet to come as we speak. RI is just like any other place to live...it all depends on what part & what part of town. I hear the area right around the hospital is a bad area although I have walked many times around there for parking way up by W&I..I have never actually personally seen anything bad....but it was also late afternoon/early evening.......I hope to get into that program though....Go on their website..lots of info about them......they seem like a good place to work for impo Good Luck!!

This post has a lot of great info but W&I is actually part of Care New England which includes Kent, and I think Butler Hospital as well. And yes, the area around the hospital campus is pretty bad. They do have shuttles which will take you to the parking garage. I did my last semester of clinicals at RIh and it was OK-just a little too big for my tastes. I work at Kent and am liking it. Good luck in your job search!

KellieNurse06 · Oct 23, 2006, 09:17 PM

...We are actually at Kent right now

We are on the ECCU unit....we are done in 3 more weeks..then off to Slater for 5 weeks... and we graduate (hopefully) finally..... Wow small world! One of my daughters homecare nurses used to work the NICU at W&I years ago.....I like Kent actually.....if it wasn't so far from my house I'd try to work there......

LisaCRN05 · Oct 24, 2006, 08:02 AM

Rhode Island Hospital is big but it also provides you with a lot of experience. They are a union hospital, unlike their other Lifespan affiliates. I worked there as a transcriptionist before nursing school and loved it. Yes, there are shuttles to take you to your car if you have a late shift. Their new ED is fabulous! Unlike one of their other affiliates, you have CNAs to help you with your shift. The affiliate that I worked at practiced the primary nursing model which means that you are pushing and IV med and someone with C-Diff is calling for the bedpan. I am not against total care of the patient but on a difficult patient floor, this can wreck you. I have a friend who works at RI Hospital and loves it. Good luck! Kent is a wonderful hospital too. Interview at both.

MuddaMia · Oct 24, 2006, 08:38 PM

what is the starting grad pay (and diffs) at these hospitals?

thanks in advance

ortess1971 · Oct 26, 2006, 03:49 PM

Originally Posted by MuddaMia

what is the starting grad pay (and diffs) at these hospitals?

thanks in advance

Kent starts new grads at 21.82 an hour-evening shift differential is 1.25 and I think weekend diff is 2.00, but I'm not sure.Kent tends to be very suppotive of staff furthering their education and the benefits are good. They don't have a union, wheras RIH does. I'm at Kent now and have been for 2 and a half years. I'm pretty happy there.

angelicabeatrice · Oct 31, 2007, 01:36 PM

Hello guys,I am currently working as a nurse here in UK for 5 years now,recently accepted a job at Kent Hospital in Warwick Rhode Island.Has anyone previously worked or currently working there that willing to share their own experiences either good or bad,I will appreciate it so much.And also kindly provide me some information about the cost of living there,many thanks...

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