does your hospital hire new grads for ICU/CVICU/SICU, etc

I know Plaza Medical in Ft Worth took a limited # of new grads into their critical care internship. Theirs was a decent internship with dedicated preceptors and a CNS administering the program. Extensive classroom work was required before the student ever walked into the critical care areas. Applicants needed excellent grades, have letters of recomendation from instructors, write an essay, and were interviewed extensively. They rotated through all the critical areas (ICU, CCU, Neuro ICU, and Stepdown) then afterwards they interviewed with the specific directors for placement.

Since it is expensive to train new grads in this way, I believe if they left before a certain agreed timeframe they had to pay $$ for cost of program. Seems to me it was 2-3 yrs. Sorry but don't know more details..suggest you contact the facilities.

Good luck.