Need your advice about Everette Providence medical center

[piscesmama]

I live north of San Fran (30 minutes). I graduated in May 2008 and passed my boards in October. I have been actively looking for a job and nothing is happening in this area except for SNF jobs. My husband and I are now looking outside of this area and one city we like is Seattle plus Portland. Nothing online that I have searched, has presented itself in terms of a new grad program in Seattle but I did find something with Everette Providence medical center. I sent in my online application, got a call from a person who collects info via phone and then will pass the info to a nurse recruiter. The person asked for my professor's contact info so they could get references. I passed that info to her and my teacher emailed me back asking me if it was a new grad program because the person on the phone said "Providence is a fast paced acute care medical center and we seek graduates who have excelled in their nursing program, particularly in the areas of communication, prioritization, organization and critical thinking."

1) How fast pace is it??- Anybody know. How good is the new grad program and the support system?

2) Does anybody have any info about the hospital they can share??? Also any leads to other hospitals in Seattle would be greatly appreciated. We don't exactly have to live in Seattle. A suburban area close to Seattle (like 10 minutes with car) with great elementary schools would be a plus.

3) Any leads in Seattle for a new grad program is also appreciated.

Thank you,

Piscesmama

[2bcurious]

This seems to be off the thread topic.

hotdharma, your statements are a bit off the main path ......

[spottybug]

Just a note about this facility...one of my closest nursing school friends got a job there as a new grad and received 6 weeks of orientation as a new grad in one of their busiest departments. She's been there a year and is already "burned out" on acute-care. They are constantly understaffed and she tells me that breaks are few and far between and she cannot count on having a nurse break her for a 30 min lunch. They are also slightly unsafe, not giving her proper training in certain procedures but just letting her "spread her wings and fly," a quote from a nursing supervisor when she asked for training.

From observing her experience as a new grad, I would not touch that hospital with a ten foot pole. :) Just my opinion, though...

Have you thought about pediatric nursing? :) :) :) I work at Children's and it's been wonderful to me, from new grad residency program to switching departments after a year. Send me a message if you want more information...

Also, you might think about the differences between teaching and non-teaching hospitals, like UWMC, Harborview, Children's vs. Providence, Virginia Mason, etc. I love working in a teaching facility. Some hate it, but there is a significant difference, I feel and it was simply fortuitous that I ended up in a teaching facility. It was not something anyone had mentioned during nursing school or when I was applying for jobs.

Hope this makes some sense and good luck to you!

(I absolutely agree with MaleNurz; whoever mentioned Hanford as causing MS is exceptionally, frighteningly ill-informed.)