Any RN's who travel from NJ to NY for work PLEASE RESPOND

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If you live in NJ and commute to NY please respond. I need to find work in NY and having a hard time. Need some ideas. Thanks!

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Where in NY? You live in Hoboken and want to work in Manhattan or Monsey and want to work in Sloatsburg? Hospital, LTC, what?

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I live in Monmouth County, want to work in NYC...Staten Island, Brooklyn or Manhattan---Originally from Brooklyn..thanks

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I'm an ER nurse.

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With what do you need help? There are two ED's in Staten Island, at Richmond University Hospital (the old St Vincent's) and Staten Island University Hospital (the old SI Hospital).

St Vincent's is incredibly busy. It's lodged between a couple of pretty rough housing projects.

Remember, it's an $8 a day bridge toll to SI or through the tunnel. Why the city, specifically? Why not Newark or somewhere closer and cheaper to get to?

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Your RN license is in NY right because you can't work unless you have a NYS license.

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With what do you need help? There are two ED's in Staten Island, at Richmond University Hospital (the old St Vincent's) and Staten Island University Hospital (the old SI Hospital).

St Vincent's is incredibly busy. It's lodged between a couple of pretty rough housing projects.

Remember, it's an $8 a day bridge toll to SI or through the tunnel. Why the city, specifically? Why not Newark or somewhere closer and cheaper to get to?

*Ahem*, Richmond University Medical Center (formerly St. Vincent's Hospital) is not exactly "lodged" between two housing projects. I say this as a native Staten Islander, born and worked at the old St. Vincents (the later as a NA and did my Med/Surg I clinicals there), and have enough family and friends on the Island still that one is there often enough.

The area of West Brighton were the hospital is located is rather nice ( I grew up there). Granted the West Brighton housing project area (some 20 or so blocks to the west), and from about Elm Street going towards Port Richmond has seen better days, that is no reflection on the hospital. Yes, again one has the housing projects down on Jersey street, and Park Hill for that matter, but again neither are right up against the hospital, and there are beautiful, nice clean middle class areas in between. Not to mention towards the south shore and down towards Walker Park/Sung Harbour (Randall Manor).

If RUMC does suffer from "inner city" problems it is because it really is the the only hospital on the North Shore of SI, aside from what is being offered at Bailey Seton down on Vanderbilt Avenue, which was supposed to be closed down.

Given how the population has grown on SI in the past 20 years, and the demographic shifts in the areas of Port Richmond, Mariners Harbor, and other North Shore towns, St. Vincents is the only local hospital to handle the load. Most persons living near the expressway often prefer to go to one of the Staten Island Hospitals.

Staten Island does not have a city hospital, and public transportation can be spotty, especially on the South Shore, so many lower income persons end up at St. Vincent's because not only is it near, but it is the only hospital they can reach without a car.

Oh and by the way, RUMC has announced plans to open an extension on South Avenue, which means hiring of nurses. It will be in the same building where the Saint Paul's School of Nursing has relocated.

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hi! i'm from your area and commute to nyc... IT'S ROUGH!!!

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Do Good, I grew up on the north shore before the bridge and only left in 2004. Lived in St George for the 10 years prior to moving, Silver Lake and New Brighton through my childhood and younger years.

WHile there are certainly lovely areas in between the projects, and surrounding the hospital, there's a lot of activity in that ED that involves officers of the law. The Jersey Street and West Brighton projects are 1-2 miles away, respectively. That's sandwiched, with a lot of lettuce.

;)

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Do Good, I grew up on the north shore before the bridge and only left in 2004. Lived in St George for the 10 years prior to moving, Silver Lake and New Brighton through my childhood and younger years.

WHile there are certainly lovely areas in between the projects, and surrounding the hospital, there's a lot of activity in that ED that involves officers of the law. The Jersey Street and West Brighton projects are 1-2 miles away, respectively. That's sandwiched, with a lot of lettuce.

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Was born after the bridge (for you non-Staten Islander natives we are speaking of the Verrazano Narrows bridge), and can remember both the old Staten Island Hospital (when it was on Cebra Avenue), and the old buildings of Saint Vincent's. Did you go to nursing school on the Island?Anywho, yes, will concede have heard about the goings on in the ED of St. Vincent's/RUMC, and they are horrible. But then again when you figure it is really the only hospital on the North Shore, and what has happened to vast areas of that area in terms of population, it is not surprising.Really shame what has happened to West Brighton projects (Markham Homes have been torn down), and the surrounding area from roughly where Broadway & Castleton Avenues cross down toward Port Richmond. When I was growing up, while not exactly utopia, there was a decent solid middle-class base living in WBP, now they mostly have fled.Since you grew up on the Island, no need to tell you how "things are", but in many ways they are worse. Many would rather die than go to RUMC or anyplace on the North Shore. Staten Island Hospital's two South Shore campuses are the place to go.

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i live nearby hackensack and work in 114th street and amsterdam ave... in the morning-20-30 mins commute by GWB. at night 15 mins to go home. i have thought of leaving my work for an easier commute but ended up not doing so all the time... can't find any equivalent to the benefits that i got from NYSNA union

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