experienced TELE nurse relocating to philly

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I have 4 years telemetry/intermediate care experience. and an amazing bf who wants to move across the country ( we live in seattle) I love my job now and especially my coworkers. Can anyone recommend a hospital or two who treat their nurses with respect, and average nurse-patient ratios, etc. Or give me places to avoid and why. :) basically anything about being a nurse in Philadelphia would be appreciated. the move isn't for months, so I'm sure I'll have more specific questions coming soon! thanks

Kristin

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Specializes in Vents, Telemetry, Home Care, Home infusion.

What type of facility looking at... University teaching hospital, Private hospital or community hospital??

Inner city or nearby suburb location ok....

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Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (HUP) is an amazing place to work. DH has a PT job there as an ER tech and even PT he has great benefits (health insurance would be expensive for him, but he'll qualify for their pension after 5 years, gets tuition prepaid, etc). It's a magnet hospital, and when I spoke to HR when looking at nursing schools they said they only hire BSNs. I'm not sure if they'd make an exception for experience tho.

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I wouldn't mind inner city or suburb, I really want a good nursing community where nurses are valued. I enjoy working, but right now the strongest point about my job is my coworkers! work is work, you know HARD WORK, but I love the people I work with and that makes the difference. I enjoy the teaching hospital, but would certainly be open to private or community hospitals. BUT i don't wanna go to the hospital where patients are allowed to do drugs in their rooms, lots of psych patients, people who abuse the hospital, I don't really want to work FOR that population. . .

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