I Got A Verbal Offer But No Written Offer?

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Hi so I have a bit of an odd situation and I'm not sure what to do at this point. About 2 weeks ago I had an interview for a new grad position in my top choice hospital. I was super excited about it and I met with the nurse managers and one of the nurses on the unit. All the hospitals I've interviewed with I always set everything up through a recruiter who reached out to me but this particular hospital I never talked to a recruiter. The nurse manager reached out to me directly which I though was a bit odd because its a huge hospital so I assumed they would have recruiters. Anyway, I had the interview and it went good. A couple days later, I got a phone call directly from the nurse manager of the unit letting me know they wanted to extend me an offer and she asked me if I wanted to accept right on the phone. I've received offers from multiple other hospitals and although they have all asked me thoughts on the offer over the phone, none of them asked me to accept right away like she did. All the other hospitals had a recruiter send me a follow up email after extending a verbal offer with salary information and benefits and such. Now this hospital not only wanted me to accept right away over the phone but, they didn't give me any information about pay which I found odd. After the nurse manager asked me to accept right then, I asked her politely about pay rate as this is important information. She told me she didn't know and that HR would get back to me with the official offer letter if I accepted the verbal offer so I told her I would accept the position verbally because its at the hospital and unit that I want. So I verbally received and accepted the offer but that was a week and a half ago and I still haven't received an official offer letter from HR like she said I would. I'm unsure what I should do at this point. I don't have the contact information of anyone in HR to reach out to. Do I just keep waiting or should I continue to look for other jobs? Any advice would be helpful. Thanks!

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