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Hi! New graduate here, and planning to take the NCLEX late August/early September.

I've done school internships within the metropolitan NY area but would like to work in northern Florida.

If anyone has worked in Baptist or St. Lukes (or other hospitals), I'd like to know how you like it and how the technology is there. Since based on my experiences, there are some hospitals who assign rolling laptops with all the patient information, MARs, etc. on it, others who still rely on paper work, etc.

How do you find your work environment? I don't know if it has to do with the location being in a high populated city and nurses being overworked but I've seen the stereotyped "would eat their young" type of nurses and only quite a few nurses who are easy going and don't mind helping/answering questions.

Thanks :chuckle

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Specializes in PeriOp, ICU, PICU, NICU.

Congratulations in graduating, good luck to you. :)

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Specializes in Burn/Trauma PCU.
Hi! New graduate here, and planning to take the NCLEX late August/early September.

I've done school internships within the metropolitan NY area but would like to work in northern Florida.

If anyone has worked in Baptist or St. Lukes (or other hospitals), I'd like to know how you like it and how the technology is there. Since based on my experiences, there are some hospitals who assign rolling laptops with all the patient information, MARs, etc. on it, others who still rely on paper work, etc.

How do you find your work environment? I don't know if it has to do with the location being in a high populated city and nurses being overworked but I've seen the stereotyped "would eat their young" type of nurses and only quite a few nurses who are easy going and don't mind helping/answering questions.

Thanks :chuckle

I don't know anything about Jax hospitals - I'm in Orlando - but I just had to say: excellent use of the word "milieu" (I'm a vocabulary geek and appreciate stuff like that!)

Good luck with Jacksonville! I hear it's a great place to be.

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Hi! New graduate here, and planning to take the NCLEX late August/early September.

I've done school internships within the metropolitan NY area but would like to work in northern Florida.

If anyone has worked in Baptist or St. Lukes (or other hospitals), I'd like to know how you like it and how the technology is there. Since based on my experiences, there are some hospitals who assign rolling laptops with all the patient information, MARs, etc. on it, others who still rely on paper work, etc.

How do you find your work environment? I don't know if it has to do with the location being in a high populated city and nurses being overworked but I've seen the stereotyped "would eat their young" type of nurses and only quite a few nurses who are easy going and don't mind helping/answering questions.

Thanks :chuckle

hi.. ive been here in jax for almost 8 months now but has just started serious job seeking 2 months ago..i applied in both mayo/st lukes and baptist. i got accepted in baptist for a prn job as they dont have any full time day shifts (but i think they have night shifts and im not cut out for it)..st lukes hard to break through. you cannot apply personally except online and theres no way to follow it up..i applied last june but until now i havenot heard from them. i dont know about shands. i also work in an agency but all they are giving me are nursing home jobs which are not my cup of coffee...pay is not much. i have 7 years med-surg but only offered 25/hour for aprn job...hope this gives you an idea of how is it down here...

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Well, I have been in Jax about 5 mos. now and work at Baptist South (the new hospital on the south end of town). I really like it there. It is completely computerized, no paper. I can't imagine why you were told there are no day positions when we are quite short right now and they are about to open our last (5th) floor, which is med/surg. progressive. The hospital has been at full capacity almost entirely since it opened--Feb. 16th of this year. You should look into it again. My supervisors have been going on and on about how much they are trying to recruit and hire RNs.

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Well, I have been in Jax about 5 mos. now and work at Baptist South (the new hospital on the south end of town). I really like it there. It is completely computerized, no paper. I can't imagine why you were told there are no day positions when we are quite short right now and they are about to open our last (5th) floor, which is med/surg. progressive. The hospital has been at full capacity almost entirely since it opened--Feb. 16th of this year. You should look into it again. My supervisors have been going on and on about how much they are trying to recruit and hire RNs.

hello cllrn...i guess its because i applied here in downtown baptist..how far is your hospital from the intercoastal?...i live in beach blvd and st johns so downtown baptist is nearest to me...but i do wiah i could find a full time position. what i did is applied to another hospital but all the same, they only need prn. so i got 2 prn jobs right now which is good so i have a back up if ever i get cancelled from the other one.thats the best i could have right now.

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