should I stay or should I go??

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I do like my job--- I feel that I have learned a lot, and I am almost a year in---

the competing hospital, I hear that they give $10K bonus & $7,500 to the person who recomends you------- and that is great money that our family can use-

but is it worth leaving where I am at for the money? (after all, I will be doing the same RN job on a med/surg floor, just at a different hospital).

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Before making your decision, I'd do an old-fashioned "pros/cons" list. The following would be important factors for me to consider:

1. Commute time. I have a 5 min commute now, and little desire to drive 30 - 45 min to the other area hospitals.

2. Nurse -Pt ratio

3. Staff turnover

4. Unit "personality" -- how does everyone get along? Do they help each other?

5. Support staff

Those are just a few considerations. A sign-on bonus is a great perk, but if you end up miserable there, the time commitment may seem like a jail sentence.

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Before making your decision, I'd do an old-fashioned "pros/cons" list. The following would be important factors for me to consider:

1. Commute time. I have a 5 min commute now, and little desire to drive 30 - 45 min to the other area hospitals.

2. Nurse -Pt ratio

3. Staff turnover

4. Unit "personality" -- how does everyone get along? Do they help each other?

5. Support staff

Those are just a few considerations. A sign-on bonus is a great perk, but if you end up miserable there, the time commitment may seem like a jail sentence.

I don't remember how everyone got along there when my daughter was admitted to this particular hospital-- but I did ask one of the nurses that worked there, and she said she liked it and that the pt ratio was always 4:1. I get that too at my hospital, but more often than none always get 5:1 and if we have 3 pt only, they either ask one of us if we want to go home and take pto. for nurses week and christmas they give the nurses $300--------while we get a little duffle bag and a $25 gift card to target. They raised the base pay $2 more for new and gave the senior nurses a pay increase--- and what did our director told us at a meeting "if someone can go and see the job fair at the hospital without being enticed to see what is going on".

but $17K is a nice chunk of change,

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I would question why that hospital is offering the bonus? Why do they have difficulty finding nurses? Are there problems there? I would hate to leave a job that I like to go to one that I end up being overworked, overwhelmed, stressed at and hate to get up to in the morning. The hospital I work at is offering a large bonus for a particular unit, however that is because it is a brand new unit and needs to be staffed rather quickly. Again, I would want to know the reason for the sign on bonus.

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My DH works there too and he likes it-- they have a great patient to nurse ratio.

I am leaving my job after a year, I am so sick of having 5-6 patients w/o nursing assistants----and these surgical kids can go bad at any time! We have good staffing on our floor but we always end up having one or two less nurses that get floated to the nicu.

I frankly think that they give all these bonuses there, because they are expanding so much and opening facilities here and there, so they need the staff to fill these areas.

Today i stayed to do a 'nurses support group', wich was a total waste of time-- they made me do yoga after my 13 hour night shift (1hrbreak), then after that, they had the psychologist there to talk to us---what at waste, because nothing ever changes. I need the year under my belt so I can go elsewhere. that is why I am there now.

besides all that, I do like most of the job.

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Ok I've been a Rn for almost 9 years and back at the beginng of my career I moved hospital 6 months in for better pay and it turned out great for me. But here's the difference I didn't like the first job. Bad commute, people not so nice and so on. Since the move 8 yrs ago I've moved on to other jobs in different areas of the country but I've always kept my per-diem status at that 2nd hospital I worked at . The reason - the people are SOOOO great. So even though for me it worked out I'd recommend you stay where you are. Nursing is nursing no matter where you do it. It's liking your job and your co-workers that makes the difference. If you wanna try it out I suggest you take a per-diem position at the new hopital and try it out for 3 months or more before you make a move. Get to know the people and policy there before you give up something you like just for money.

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I totally agree with you-- I could go to the interview and see the floor and how nurses get a long and just get a 'feel' of the unit and see if I want to work there. My dh tells me that people really like working there--

and my hospital, ever since we got this new president, has been so corporate and is all about saving money, that is why we never have just 4 pts as they told me in the interview, they send staff home and make us start with 5 pts........ and other times, we will have enough staff but they get floated to another unit.... and it's always our floor that does that.

I am just so sick of it.

I like the job, but not THAT much.

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They're offering the bonuses for a reason.

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