Anything good about working in Texas?

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I'll be moving to Rice, Tx in 6-12 months. I'm a little uneasy about working in Tx from reading some of the threads. I'll be living near Corsicana, Waxahachie, and Ennis..any good places for an RN to work? How about Baylor in Dallas? Agencies? Travel Companies?

Any advice is appreciated.

FYI..I have several years ICU experience, a few years PACU and Float, 3 years case management experience, a little HH and Wound care and 5 years clinical instructor experience.

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thanks for any advice!!

Specializes in Case mgmt., rehab, (CRRN), LTC & psych.
Is This true ? A surplus of nurses in TX ? Can somebody chime in cause hubby and I are coming in '08 and thats contrary to what we're being told evrywhere else. Im baffled.:uhoh3:
The aforementioned poster lives in the Texas Panhandle, which has a surplus of nurses and the resulting low pay rates. However, the market for nursing is good in DFW and Houston.
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I just thought of something good about working in TX - there is no state income tax! Of course property tax probably takes as much as state income tax would.

For those who are moving to TX, I would recommend moving south of DFW. I've been in a good portion of areas of TX and the worst jobs I had were in DFW.

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The aforementioned poster lives in the Texas Panhandle, which has a surplus of nurses and the resulting low pay rates. However, the market for nursing is good in DFW and Houston.

On the travel assignment I just completed, every single traveler at the unit was from TX. A few of us were there d/t lack of jobs in our respective areas of TX. For the others, it was all about the poor working conditions experienced in TX.

We all talked about our situations a lot.

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Specializes in Case management, Utilization Review.

Argh..! and I haven't worked ICU or the bedside in over a year!

Guess I'll just have to see what's available when I get down there and make the best of it.

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I'll be in TX in '08 to close on a house with hubby. We are from FL but home prices have skyrocketed in the areas we would be willing to live in and property taxes and home insurance(IF you can get it) are ridiculously high. And you want to start an RN off there at $18? I make $32 an hour now in PA as a LPN and pay 780/mo in rent (well the travel co pays it but still) I will not pay 9k a year in tax and insurance for a 350k house on 18 bucks an hour in central FL. Not to mention the house is half the size of what we found in TX for a third of the price.

I agree with you. I'm a native of Orlando, but live in TX now. The pay in FL is lower than TX, but the housing is ridiculous in central Florida. My $215K house in a a suburb of Houston is bigger than the one my sister has on the market in Orlando for $545K. Good luck with your move. My husband and I have lived here for about 4 years now and like it.

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In my area of Texas, housing prices are dropping. My house is probably worth less than I paid for it 5 years ago. Houses are sitting on the mkt for months and months. The listings and signs frequently say "price reduced!"

My house is a 3/1.75/2. Nice house in a nice area. Paid $107,000. 5 years ago. However, there is a big surplus of nurses here. Wages are very low, and jobs are scarce. All the RNs I know in this town (including me) have become travelers just so we can work.

I hope we can make some money on our house when we sell.

The job market really depends on which area of Texas you are working in. My husband is an RN in the Houston area and there definitely appears to be a shortage of nurses here. When he applied for jobs this past June as a new graduate, he was offered a job at every single place he applied. All of these jobs offered very nice wages and most pay the employee's health benefits in full. The nursing shortage here is only projected to get worse. As for housing in the Houston suburbs, it appears to be a buyer's market right now.

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The job market really depends on which area of Texas you are working in. My husband is an RN in the Houston area and there definitely appears to be a shortage of nurses here. When he applied for jobs this past June as a new graduate, he was offered a job at every single place he applied. All of these jobs offered very nice wages and most pay the employee's health benefits in full. The nursing shortage here is only projected to get worse. As for housing in the Houston suburbs, it appears to be a buyer's market right now.

A number of the travelers I know from this area have done contracts in Houston. There are jobs in the big metro areas in TX, but we are a-hurtin in the small towns and rural areas.

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Specializes in Case management, Utilization Review.

I do have some hope..I've seen positions posted in Ennis, Corsicana, and Waxahachie.

Has anyone worked in those hospitals? What about Agency work in those areas?

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I have read a lot about working in Houston, DFW, etc. But does anybody work in Mission, Texas? ---nursing homes or hospitals...Don't know anything about this place. Please send me a PM. thanks.

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1 good thing about Texas..... NO STATE INCOME TAX! :clown:

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In East Texas & in the Galveston County areas there is a nursing shortage if you want to call it that. It may be that the population has grown so much. Either way we can not get enough nurses & have been using agency nurses in east Texas. Pay in this area (East Texas) ranges from $16 LVN Hospital / $20 RN Hospital, $18 to $23 LVN LTC / $25 to $30 RN LTC. Weekend Super RN 32/40 paying $30 - $35. LTC LVN TILE / MDS $25, RN LTC TILE / MDS $30 - $40 hourly.

Good Luck!

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What is RN LTC TILE / MDS?

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