Help! Where do I start?

z's playa · Jan 7, 2005

Is it that you're scared of large hospitals not ever being near one before? I'm nowhere near Nashville , just wondering. Good luck!

eltrip · Jan 7, 2005

Check out Baptist, Centennial, St. Thomas, Vanderbilt, Southern Hills, Skyline...there are others, I just can't remember them all. St. Thomas & Vandy have fairly good track records on how they treat their employees. Just check with their human resources departments. Many of them have on-line listings of available positions.

Where do you plan to live? Keep in mind that Downtown, Brentwood, Franklin, & Green Hills are enormously expensive. Bellevue, last I heard, had a mixture of pricing on housing. Madison, Old Hickory, Antioch, & West Nashville may still have affordable areas.

After having lived there for 15 years & now gone for 5 years, I still miss Vanderbilt...and I don't miss Nashville traffic one tiny bit!!!!

Good luck to you as you move to Music City!

HollyUTM · Jan 12, 2005

Thanks so much for your advice. I plan to live in Ashland City, that is where my fiance is from. It's not that I am intimidated by large hospitals, it is merely that I am from a VERY small town, and didn't know much about the hospitals in Nashville ( as to who hires new grad LPN's, etc) That's all. I really look forward to my move; I feel that I will love it there. I work at a hospital now that only has a Geri-Psych Unit, Med-Surg, Emergency Room, and Outpatient Surgery Unit ( all they do is colonoscopies, truth be told). Just didn't know where to start, thanks you guys!

Holly

DutchgirlRN, ASN, RN · Jan 12, 2005

Thanks so much for your advice. I plan to live in Ashland City, that is where my fiance is from. It's not that I am intimidated by large hospitals, it is merely that I am from a VERY small town, and didn't know much about the hospitals in Nashville ( as to who hires new grad LPN's, etc) That's all. I really look forward to my move; I feel that I will love it there. I work at a hospital now that only has a Geri-Psych Unit, Med-Surg, Emergency Room, and Outpatient Surgery Unit ( all they do is colonoscopies, truth be told). Just didn't know where to start, thanks you guys! Holly

I live in Nashville and personally speaking I would avoid Skyline Medical Center, it's beautiful but has alot of problems. Around here it's known as Flatline Medical Center. You get the idea.

Baptist is known for horrible staff ratios. Like 8:1 and no techs.

That's the only two I would steer you away from. I would not go online to apply. They never get the application in the nursing office. I applied on line several times at the same hospitals and never heard a word. One day I called the nursing office and they asked me to come in for an interview that day and hired me on the spot. They told me they never see the online aps. Call the Nursing Department and tell them directly what your interested in.