Can anyone in Kentucky help me?

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Okay, so this is going to be a bit long, but I am desperate.

I am currently working in Kentucky as a nurse at a hospital that I am not so thrilled with. I have been a nurse 8 months and I was hired straight into the ICU so I've worked there the entire time. It wasn't so bad at first, but now the hospital has started making us work 4, sometimes 5, days a week. I am currently obtaining my BSN and they are aware of it. I asked them to switch me to weekend shifts since no one ever wants to work the weekends (we don't get paid more to work them) and all of my co-workers had no problem with it, but management told me no. Why? Because it would be too much trouble for them to re-do a schedule where people weren't on a rotation...

Our hospital is about 50% travelers and 50% staff nurses. They cannot keep their staff. It's not a great place to work and on top of everything else it is still completely paper charting. I'm desperately trying to find a new place to work and I'm not sure where to even start. Any suggestions? I actually had a recruiter offer me a job to start traveling, but I don't think I have enough experience to do that at this point. Any suggestions for places in Kentucky?

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Specializes in Case mgmt., rehab, (CRRN), LTC & psych.

You would probably be more likely to obtain a faster, more accurate response to your questions if you checked out our Kentucky Nursing forum:

https://allnurses.com/kentucky-nursing/

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Specializes in NICU.

I work in Louisville at Kosair Children's Hospital which is part of the Norton Healthcare. Norton has 5 hospitals in the Louisville area.

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Specializes in Dialysis.

I worked years ago at Jewish and at University, both in Louisville, in ICU, and loved them both. Only came to work back in IN because I got tired of the trip across the bridge

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Do you know what the pay is?

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