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Jan 06, 2005 08:11 PM

Help! Where do I start?


I'm from a small town ( very small town) in West, TN. We don't even have fast food, and I am moving with my fiance on January 15 to Nashville. I have absolutely no idea where to start looking for a job at, the hospitals are huge. I have gone online and looked, but just wondering if anyone had a good idea of a good place to get started at in nashville. I am also a new grad LPN, only been licensed since Oct. If anyone would just point me in the right direction and toward the right hospital, I'd be much obliged. Thanks!


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from z's playa
Old Jan 06, 2005, 08:30 PM

Is it that you're scared of large hospitals not ever being near one before? I'm nowhere near Nashville , just wondering. Good luck!
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from eltrip
Old Jan 07, 2005, 01:36 PM

Check out Baptist, Centennial, St. Thomas, Vanderbilt, Southern Hills, Skyline...there are others, I just can't remember them all. St. Thomas & Vandy have fairly good track records on how they treat their employees. Just check with their human resources departments. Many of them have on-line listings of available positions.

Where do you plan to live? Keep in mind that Downtown, Brentwood, Franklin, & Green Hills are enormously expensive. Bellevue, last I heard, had a mixture of pricing on housing. Madison, Old Hickory, Antioch, & West Nashville may still have affordable areas.

After having lived there for 15 years & now gone for 5 years, I still miss Vanderbilt...and I don't miss Nashville traffic one tiny bit!!!!

Good luck to you as you move to Music City!
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from HollyUTM
Old Jan 11, 2005, 10:00 PM

Thanks so much for your advice. I plan to live in Ashland City, that is where my fiance is from. It's not that I am intimidated by large hospitals, it is merely that I am from a VERY small town, and didn't know much about the hospitals in Nashville ( as to who hires new grad LPN's, etc) That's all. I really look forward to my move; I feel that I will love it there. I work at a hospital now that only has a Geri-Psych Unit, Med-Surg, Emergency Room, and Outpatient Surgery Unit ( all they do is colonoscopies, truth be told). Just didn't know where to start, thanks you guys!

Holly
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No. 4
Old Jan 11, 2005, 10:10 PM
Updated Jan 11, 2005 at 10:16 PM by DutchgirlRN

Originally Posted by HollyUTM
Thanks so much for your advice. I plan to live in Ashland City, that is where my fiance is from. It's not that I am intimidated by large hospitals, it is merely that I am from a VERY small town, and didn't know much about the hospitals in Nashville ( as to who hires new grad LPN's, etc) That's all. I really look forward to my move; I feel that I will love it there. I work at a hospital now that only has a Geri-Psych Unit, Med-Surg, Emergency Room, and Outpatient Surgery Unit ( all they do is colonoscopies, truth be told). Just didn't know where to start, thanks you guys! Holly
I live in Nashville and personally speaking I would avoid Skyline Medical Center, it's beautiful but has alot of problems. Around here it's known as Flatline Medical Center. You get the idea.

Baptist is known for horrible staff ratios. Like 8:1 and no techs.

That's the only two I would steer you away from. I would not go online to apply. They never get the application in the nursing office. I applied on line several times at the same hospitals and never heard a word. One day I called the nursing office and they asked me to come in for an interview that day and hired me on the spot. They told me they never see the online aps. Call the Nursing Department and tell them directly what your interested in.
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