Kaiser San Diego

U.S.A. California

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Hi. Anyone work for Kaiser in or near SD? I applied to work as a heme/onc nurse but not sure if I will even qualify. I hear that Kaiser is selective. I have a background in palliative care and hospice and worked in Chicago on an inpatient unit. I have an ADN for the last 6 yrs, I have my CHPN and I am finishing my BSN online at Loyola University Chicago. I really want to branch into oncology--I'm working on my OCN this year.

Any tips? Any experience? Positives/negatives? What is the typical salary?

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Specializes in Psych ICU, addictions.

Kaiser pays well compared to the other hospitals and their benefits are the best in the area. Plus, the fact that Kaiser is all throughout California as well as a few other states means plenty of opportunities to transfer and grow...and internal candidates almost always get priority over outside applicants. So of course, lots of people want to go work for them. End result is that Kaiser is VERY selective.

The best way to get into it is to know someone who already works there and can recommend you. Otherwise, apply and apply and apply again...and consider taking the less-than-dream position if it means you can get in the door period, because you can always transfer to the dream position later on.

Best of luck.

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Salary is based on years of experience. The base pay is higher than UC's for sure, but the money maker is the differentials based on speciality (ER/ICUs). You'll be making low 50s baseline I believe with some experience. UC's pension edges out kaiser by a small margin from what I know.

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Specializes in Emergency, Trauma, Critical Care.

It's very competitive. Kaiser doesn't pay differentials for specialty in nor cal, not sure if it's different in Southern California. With experience from what my old coworkers told me who went to kaiser low 50s hourly is correct with experience.

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I think Socal and norcal Kaiser are extremely different. Not really sure why

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I think there are Kaiser location in norcal compared to Socal. I'm from the Bay Area and there is a Kaiser medical building in every single city and all the cities were within 20 miles of each other.

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Best way to get in? Volunteer, and network!

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