A few more questions before moving to Texas.

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Hi guys:

Here in AZ, we have 4-5 patients in tele dept, 5 patients in Med/Surg dept. How about Dallas area?

Which hospitals you guys recommend? I am looking for a good team work environment.

I have 3 yrs experience, how much I will be getting paid working at acute hospital in Texas. Thank you all!

John

I love how the hospitals claim there is a shortage but we have group 1 that black balls Nurses and there is 50,000 RNs that are not working as nurses anymore in Texas.

And I'm one of them. I have to live here, but I don't have to work here.

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Well, I am gonna stay here in AZ, or move to other states. Thank you all for your helpful input. Come to AZ if you don't mind the heat. John

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I get so tired of trying to fight for all the scared and apathetic nurses when they won't even be civil at work, much less do the right thing.

My situation in Florida was very similar when I worked for (mostly against) HCA:devil:. I should speak up for you when you don't speak in the mornings and when I work behind you I have 1-2 hours of cleaning up your mess before I can start my work? Whatever.

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My situation in Florida was very similar when I worked for (mostly against) HCA:devil:. I should speak up for you when you don't speak in the mornings and when I work behind you I have 1-2 hours of cleaning up your mess before I can start my work? Whatever.

Exactly. The hell-hole HCA I worked in TX was the same way. The staff in that place were both older and younger than me. It didn't make any difference.

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What are the states offering good working condition for RN? Thanks.!

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I don't think that you are going to find a state that is overall nurse friendly. Even in CA the nurses still have issues even though they have mandatory ratios. You may find employers that are half way ok but you are not going to know until you try them out. I can tell you that I have worked in numerous states and I have never seen staffing rations like the ones you describe at your current job in any of the numerous places I've worked. Nursing and healthcare is getting progressively worse. You are going to have to decide what you can and cannot put up with in a job and then go from there. Frankly, I think you either need to be content living in the desert or find another career. You keep hoping for someone to tell you of some wonderful place but I don't think you are going to find what you are looking for with the specific things that you want out of a job and the employer. If you truly want to leave AZ, you need to pick a place that has most of what you are looking for and just move there. Then you can find a job that can offer you what b.s. that you can put up with and pick the best of the worst evils. Your posts sound like you want your cake and you want to eat it too. Hate to tell you but things don't work this way in healthcare. If being very happy and having great ratios are important to you - you are better off staying put and finding ways to be happy where you are at. If living in the desert is that horrible for you - then move and even when you don't have a job that is as good as the one you have now, then you will put your happiness and emphasis on your private life because you like where you live.

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I have to disagree. I have been nursing for over 20 years and have worked as a trsveler for over 10 of those years. I have foind that all states have crappy hospitals and all states have great hospitals to work at. Texas by far has been my favorite place to work. The wages are high here compared to the cost of living. The work enviroment is no different than any where else. I have never felt that the staffing was unsafe. Heck if I walked in and saw that staffing was that unsafe as you all seen to think I personally would turn around and walk right back out the door without getting report.

As for people saying they are stuck here, well in reality unless someone is holding a gun to your head you are not stuck here. People are free to move around, if you are married and your spouse refuses for no good reason to move or compromise then I would suggest that you probably have greater problems than staffing ratios.

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if you are married and your spouse refuses for no good reason to move or compromise then I would suggest that you probably have greater problems than staffing ratios.

My husband does not "refuse for no good reason" to move. He is a research scientist and is doing very important work, which is very fulfilling for him, and beneficial to everyone.

It is unfortunate that the part of Texas in which the world class research lab where he works is located is a very bad area in which to be a nurse.

I am a traveler, too, and this is a compromise for my spouse.

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As for people saying they are stuck here, well in reality unless someone is holding a gun to your head you are not stuck here. People are free to move around, if you are married and your spouse refuses for no good reason to move or compromise then I would suggest that you probably have greater problems than staffing ratios.

Yes people are free to move around in theory but ... it's not always that simple.

Luckily I live in California where nurses are generally treated very well but, if that wasn't the case, I'd have a hellava time moving too.

Why? Because my husband would have to give up substantial retirement benefits if we did move. There's no way we could obtain the same benefits anywhere else since his benefits increase dramatically with the additional time he's putting in.

So theorectically we could move but our retirement plans would be jeopardized if we did.

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The work enviroment is no different than any where else. I have never felt that the staffing was unsafe.

The insurance companies would probably disagree with you. Look at NSO's rates and coverage for Texas.

http://www.nso.com/

The premiums cost more and they'll only insure you for $100,000 per incident with a $300,000 cap. In just about any other state ... they give nurses ten times the coverage at $1 million per incident with a $6 million cap.

Why won't the insurance companies cover RN's in Texas as much as they do in other states? Probably because they're paying a lot of liability claims in Texas.

IMO, this is probably the best evidence that there's a problem with working conditions in Texas.

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Spouses live in seperate states all the time. I have done it with my spouse before, I know of many that do it today. The point is we are a mobile society and people are not stuck in one place if they are willing to go. Unlike earlier ages when we sere stuck in one area [people can and do move aroind to find work. All it takes is the willingness to sacrifice a bit but I can tell by many comments here that people here are not willing to do that.

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It helps to keep in mind what we're arguing about here. Is a "my state is better than your state" exchange really worth all this drama?

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