Re: A "Worst" list and WV was not mentioned!!!
Hello,
Here is what I know. Every hospital in WV is hiring nurses, and if you are an experienced nurse ready and willing to come on board, work for a lower salary than some other places, understand the pace here is slower and the doctors practice as much defensive medicine as proactive medicine, then come on over. COL is a little lower here on food, but gas can be high, utilities are in the middle. We have an older population so respect is important to the patients. We do have HIV, STD's, Hep B and C but in lower numbers than many, many other places. We are not as culturally diversified as other places, we do have a few blacks in the bigger towns, a few Asians,
a few Indians, and a few Mexicans. There are few race problems here. We have all four seasons, our roads are rough in many places, (coal trucks really eat them up), and we are within 500 miles of many of the important cities in the East. Flights leave Charleston every morning for New York and return every night. Myrtle Beach, SC, the vacation spot of many, is about a 7 hour drive, other beaches are closer, the Smokies are close but we have our own mountains, so they are not quite as impressive to us, Columbus, Ohio is 4 hours from my door, Charlotte, NC is about the same. We can be clannish but we are not stupid, we do not marry our own family, we have some of the best laws for women on the books(that was reported on GMA) and our graduation rate is higher than NC, Va, Nevada, Tx, and many, many other states. Good luck and come on over if you can. You might be surprised and love it.
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, Do you know what Beckley WV hospital condition is like right now? Just got submitted for an icu position there today. I was submitted for SICU a few months ago and never heard anything from them. (story of my life in this travel RN profession) I was looking to get out of traveling, applied for a couple of staff rn jobs, and neither of them panned out. SO back to traveling I go, until I can find somewhere that I like. Not talking hospitals, those are reallllllly few and far between these days, but a general community/area that I like. I read on some older post that Beckleys (Raliegh hospital) has some poor managment, I take it this is why they probably need travelors? Any information that you could provide would be greatly appreciated! I have never seen the mountains that direction. I have been to the Rockies once (took a travel contract there during the dead of the winter 
. Other than that have never seen any other mountains, so I am excited/hopeful to hear from them. I think it would be an awesome opportunity to get over that direction and explore! Thanks, Auntsas
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