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I'm relocating soon (From Arkansas), and was curious about the hospitals in and around Dallas. I'm an LPN who has primarily worked in a hospital setting out here in Arkansas. I know some areas don't utilize LPN's in the hospital setting and was wondering if any Dallas area nurses could fill me in on the LPN role in that area.

I plan to fast track once I get settled, can anyone recomend any good LPN to ASN/ADN fast track programs in the Dallas area?

Thanks in advance

How far is Plano from "Dallas"? I'm a certified doula as well as an LVN so I do better with babies and mommies. However at the present I'm on an oncology floor.

Plano is a northern suburb of Dallas. It is a really nice area, but expensive.

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How far is Plano from "Dallas"? I'm a certified doula as well as an LVN so I do better with babies and mommies. However at the present I'm on an oncology floor.

Plano is a northern suburb of Dallas. It is a really nice area, but expensive.

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Plano is a northern suburb of Dallas. It is a really nice area, but expensive.
Depends on where you choose to live, it's not all that expensive (compared to, say, California or New York).

Irving and Arlington are kind of smack dab in the middle of everything. If you are looking for something quieter, you might look at McKinney, Allen, Wylie, Murphy (where the house is where they used to make the TV show "Dallas," but couldn't very well have called it "Murphy," could they? :rotfl: ), Fairview, Lavon, Parker, or our little town of Lucas (house next door to me is for sale.... :) ). These (except McKinney, which is the county seat) are all bedroom communities which pretty much don't have anything going on themselves. They are all close to public transportation.

All things are relative.

Medical City of Dallas, Medical Center of Plano and North Central Medical Center are all sister facilities (all HCA), and they probably all hire LVN's. Medical City give you free DART (Dallas Area Rapid Transit) passes, so you don't even have to drive into "town."

Are you coming soon?

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Plano is a northern suburb of Dallas. It is a really nice area, but expensive.
Depends on where you choose to live, it's not all that expensive (compared to, say, California or New York).

Irving and Arlington are kind of smack dab in the middle of everything. If you are looking for something quieter, you might look at McKinney, Allen, Wylie, Murphy (where the house is where they used to make the TV show "Dallas," but couldn't very well have called it "Murphy," could they? :rotfl: ), Fairview, Lavon, Parker, or our little town of Lucas (house next door to me is for sale.... :) ). These (except McKinney, which is the county seat) are all bedroom communities which pretty much don't have anything going on themselves. They are all close to public transportation.

All things are relative.

Medical City of Dallas, Medical Center of Plano and North Central Medical Center are all sister facilities (all HCA), and they probably all hire LVN's. Medical City give you free DART (Dallas Area Rapid Transit) passes, so you don't even have to drive into "town."

Are you coming soon?

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Plano is a northern suburb of Dallas. It is a really nice area, but expensive.

I live in Plano, and I work at Baylor in Downtown Dallas, and if I could guide you in any direction I would say North of Dallas is probably where you should think of going. School districts for Plano, Allen and McKinney are great, and if you have kids that is important. Rockwall is also a great city, up and coming and growing.

Hope that helps!!

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Well I lived in DFW for years. The majority of the time there I lived in Irving in the Las Colinas area next to the Four Seasons Hotel. Baylor of Irving, Baylor/ Las Colinas & the Las Colinas Medical Centers are all in that area.

North Dallas is nice too. Plano is a lovely city with some of the best schools in the country (with the property taxes to show for it!!!). Baylor just opened a new hospital in Plano. Frisco is far north and about as nice as Plano.

Then there is Children's Medical Center, Zale Lipsky Hospital and St Paul Hospital all near each other, near the Anatole Hotel and kind of close to downtown.

I thought Children's was a great place to work.

And lets not forget Parkland. They will give you the best training in the world.

Methodist is in a "charming" (read tough) Dallas neighborhood, but I really liked the time I spent there.

At one point I was considering buying a house in a new suburb in Desoto, so I liked it down there too.

Yes, I am a bit biased, I loved the DFW Metroplex.

Of course these are not the only hospitals in the area, but I am sure someone else can fill in the blanks.

:p :p

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Where is parkland?

We're looking in the Plano area, places like Euless and Grand Prarie. I liked the fact Baylor pays their employees health insurance, I pay $300 a month now, for really crummy insurance.

I want the best training though and I plan to finish school at UT Arlington. I have a semester left before I can apply for BSN, I'm an LVN now.

Do these places generally pay diffs for ACLS and PALS?

Thanks for your help

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Parkland in near downtown... It is right next to Children's and Zale.... Parkland is a county hospital and a part of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School. Because they are the only county hospital in the area, they see ALOT of patients... AND the staff works really hard... But I thought the training was the best I ever received.....

I have friends who lived in both Euless and Grand Prairie and like every neighborhood, they have good parts and bad parts.

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how about the pay for an LVN? I'm getting ACLS is two weeks and considering pals.

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I live in Plano, and I work at Baylor in Downtown Dallas, and if I could guide you in any direction I would say North of Dallas is probably where you should think of going. School districts for Plano, Allen and McKinney are great, and if you have kids that is important. Rockwall is also a great city, up and coming and growing.

Hope that helps!!

I am relocating back to Texas from Louisiana and have a great interest in working at Baylor. Is it a really good hospital to work for? Are there any openings for an LVN? Any feedback is greatly appreciated.

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I am relocating back to Texas from Louisiana and have a great interest in working at Baylor. Is it a really good hospital to work for? Are there any openings for an LVN? Any feedback is greatly appreciated.

"Big Baylor" (nickname for the downtown Baylor hospital) hires LVN's, but some of the smaller suburban Baylor's do not, such as Richardson Regional (used to be Baylor Richardson) which is an RN only hospital.

This is why you may get different answers from people.

I've heard that their pay is ok at best, but if you really want to work for them, great.

Or try the UT Southwestern-St. Paul-Zale recent merge, at the time (2-3 years ago) they paid the best for LVN's in acute care hospitals, and believe me, I shopped around Dallas and interviewed everywhere.

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Im looking into starting a bridge program at an online school

called lamar college. Ive been researching information on it and so

far so good. I would like to go to el centro but its to hard to get

into. One of there prereq' s is college algebra and i hate math and

you have to pass the hesi then maybe you will be accepted. At lamar

college there is no math no hesi and its easier to get into...good luck

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