HCA New Grad Program (StaRN) at Kendall Regional (Miami, FL)

Jdj595 · Jun 22, 2018

Hopefully everyone had great StaRN experiences wherever they went. Mine was awful. Kendall Regional is the worst hospital I have ever been in. I would never go there as a patient. It's the only HCA hospital I have been inside and the last HCA hospital I plan on entering. HCA sucks.

And I speak from what I saw going on. I wasn't mistreated although I noticed that HCA doesn't give a flip about their employees, mich less their patients. Stay away from for profit hospitals. All they care about is their profit.

Jdj595 · Jun 22, 2018

As soon as you start the onboarding with Healthtrust.

Jdj595 · Jun 22, 2018

Wow! Either your nursing school experience sucked or your preceptorship was awesome. I had the opposite experiences. I felt like the training program took away from what I learned in nursing school and that the people teaching were not up to date. I didn't learn hardly anything extraordinary outside of nursing school. I had learned ICU in nursing school and other than more details on IV drips and stuff like that, it wasn't anything to say WOW about. I felt it was very inadequate training for ICU. Plus they will give you 3-4 patients. Totally sucks.

mels95 · Aug 16, 2018

I actually have an interview for Kendall Regional ICU and i havent heard the best of things about them! any insight?

Jdj595 · Aug 16, 2018

Well, if you can handle insufficient training, large patient load, unsafe environment, and lies about the job and contract and training, you should be fine. I walked into that mess with no clue how bad it was and I felt sorry for the patients that they were there. I don't know how the hospital is still open. But you're choice.

mels95 · Aug 16, 2018

Oh man. Yes I've heard horrible things about Kendall so I guess what people say is correct. Is it true they only have one ICU?

Jdj595 · Aug 16, 2018

They have a huge ICU. It's split into 4 sections. CICU, SICU, MICU, TICU. They also have a step down IMCU type unit you have to float to that sucks. All the patients are in contact and airborne precautions but the rooms are curtained. They're not the correct rooms for those types of patients. The have a pediatric unit that is mostly empty. I wouldn't take my kid there.

It's big and the patients are very sick. And you see scary things. Like patients dying after they looked well enough to go home. I say if you're going to do terrible, do it where there are no contracts. That way you can leave as soon as you get a better offer. All you really need is 1 year experience and you can apply to any hospital. Some even have RN volunteer programs where they will hire you if they like you. I settled for KRMC because they were my first offer and I should have never done that. I should have pursued where I really wanted to work. Some people are doing it just for the experience, and if you think you can handle it go ahead. ICU was my dream too. But I hated it there. Also, no employee parking. And I was constantly parking on the side of the road and got a ticket. And take your own food. I got food poisoning there. And they don't serve food to employees on the weekends.

Jdj595 · Aug 16, 2018

If you're going to work for HCA I'd say the lesser of two evils is Mercy hospital.

FocusedRNðŸ¤” · Aug 17, 2018

Any insight on Palms West hospital?

Alonsl1 · Dec 3, 2018

How I can apply to this program?

Cokeboyg6 · Mar 19, 2019

I recently applied to various hospitals and received the email stating...

Your application is currently under consideration. Due to the high level of interest received in our StaRN Program, there may be a slight delay in our response. You will receive additional communication via phone or email from one of our Talent Acquisition Recruiters.

PLEASE NOTE: When viewing your online submission, the following status “Not Under Consideration” may not accurately reflect your current step in our process.

Is this a good thing? And also how long until after this email did anyone receive any feedback? Thank you