Does anyone here live in the Corpus Christi area? If so, where did you find jobs?
I just graduated from nursing school in the Houston area, but I want to move to Corpus Christi to be near my fiance (we've spent 2 years living 4 hours apart, and I'm more than ready to fix that). I've spent the last week and a half in CC applying and interviewing, and it seems that there are very few GN postitions and most (possibly all) of them are filled. I've applied online for almost every position listed with the Christus Spohn network, Corpus Christi medical center, and even sent some apps out for various psychiatric facilities/units nearby.
I'm starting to get discouraged, and I'm not sure what my "plan B" should be. Do I work as a tech until the next GN pick-up wave? Do I forget about hospital nursing and just go hand out copies of my resume to physician offices like a salesperson?
Any advice or ideas would be greatly appreciated. I've got my GN permit on the BNE site and my ATT, I just need a job!
If money is the most important factor for you and you're mobile, consider the san francisco bay area in cali. pay here is about $60/h for night shift and two years of experience. that just about beats every other state/region.
there are a lot of threads on this site by people asking where to make decent money, but what's often missing from the discussion is state legislation and the general conditions for nursing. i've worked in montana and florida in the past and the way RN's are treated in california is just so much better. nursing is almost a different job here than in other states. neither florida nor montana mandated breaks for night shift nurses. we'd often have up to 8 patients. hospitals in california on the other hand give ample break time even on nights and limit ratios to a max of 5:1 in regular med surg and 4:1 on telemetry/ms. that makes a huge difference to me.
real estate here is very expensive. however, i've always felt that for the most part our pay more than makes up for the higher cost of living. food etc is no more expensive than anywhere else, it's just real estate and maybe gas.....
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If money is the most important factor for you and you're mobile, consider the san francisco bay area in cali. pay here is about $60/h for night shift and two years of experience. that just about beats every other state/region.
there are a lot of threads on this site by people asking where to make decent money, but what's often missing from the discussion is state legislation and the general conditions for nursing. i've worked in montana and florida in the past and the way RN's are treated in california is just so much better. nursing is almost a different job here than in other states. neither florida nor montana mandated breaks for night shift nurses. we'd often have up to 8 patients. hospitals in california on the other hand give ample break time even on nights and limit ratios to a max of 5:1 in regular med surg and 4:1 on telemetry/ms. that makes a huge difference to me.