ICU NURSE TRAVELING TO Charleston

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Looking into traveling to South Carolina - Charleston area. Any recommendations for hospitals? What is the cost of living/ pay rate/ nurse pt. ratios (ICU)

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I am a 2nd semester BSN nursing student at MUSC. I have lived in Charleston now for 6 years - graduated from CofC in 2006, worked at MUSC for 1 1/2 as a CNA, and am now in school. That is so awesome that you are coming to Charleston. This place is amazing....I love it so much. I have had experience working at the various hospitals around the Charleston area through school. I personally would recommend MUSC (not just b/c I go there either)! Roper overall has very bitter employees, CMH is just a really gross place to work, St. Francis would be my second choice after MUSC.

The cost of living here is pretty high. I don't know the exact numbers but you can type in "cost of living comparisons" into google and it will give you websites that will help.

Good luck!!!!

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Specializes in ORTHOPAEDICS-CERTIFIED SINCE 89.

Please don't generalize about other facilities employees. It isn't fair and it may just influence someone who would make a good staff member.

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Ok....wow. I'm sorry about that. Prolly was not a nice thing to do, you're definitely right, but was just trying to help.

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LPN here, but my daughter worked at MUSC as a NICU nurse for many years and loved it. Great pay and many benifits. MUSC is a teaching hospital and highly recommended. This has been at least 8 years ago and her wages as an R.N. were close to the $34 on hour at that time.

You have to include her benifet package also. It is someplace to look into.

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The new ART hospital at MUSC is awesome!! I had my clinical there as well and it was so much fun to work there. There were a few travel nurses there to if I remember.

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LPN here, but my daughter worked at MUSC as a NICU nurse for many years and loved it. Great pay and many benifits. MUSC is a teaching hospital and highly recommended. This has been at least 8 years ago and her wages as an R.N. were close to the $34 on hour at that time.

You have to include her benifet package also. It is someplace to look into.

I have heard that South Carolina has a slow turn around when applying for travel positions, do you find this true? I have been waiting on MUSC for about 2 weeks now, so far i haven't heard of any other ICU available in the Charleston area. I find this hard to believe, but i really want to come to the area...

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