Anyone work at UK Medical Center/Good Samaritan Hospital

klonginoRN · Feb 23, 2011

I worked at UK for about 2 years. Just left actually. Retirements awesome, but I really didn't like having to drive into Lexington and park a mile away (oh and pay $350 a year to park a mile away!) But it is a good workplace. As far as an interview, apply for every position that you can, then you can get as many interviews as possible :)

Good luck! :nurse:

WildcatFanRN, BSN, RN · Feb 23, 2011

I worked at UK for about 2 years. Just left actually. Retirements awesome, but I really didn't like having to drive into Lexington and park a mile away (oh and pay $350 a year to park a mile away!) But it is a good workplace. As far as an interview, apply for every position that you can, then you can get as many interviews as possible :)
Good luck!

I've had several applications be referred to the hiring managers, but no interviews yet. I wonder what I can do to increase my chances of getting an interview.

gayb77 · Jul 18, 2011

Call / email the nurse recruiters, let them know you are applying and see if they would be able to answer a few questions about the hospital. Get your name in their radar. Once they know you exsist, and are dedicated to the proccess, things will speed up. Also its a very very long proccess, even if they want you it can take months to get a job offer.

DA314 · Jul 18, 2011

Are you looking to work at Uk or Good Samaritan? The pay and benefits are the same at both hospitals, but that is where the similarities end. UK has great staffing ratios most of the time, and is all in all a dream place to work compared to Good Samaritan. G.S. is understaffed, the nurses there are resistent to the changes UK has made since the merger, nurses and techs are overworked, UK dumps all their psych pts on G.S. You get a lot of detoxers, a lot of violent patients. There is not a sense of team work like you find at UK. The managers are a joke.

The best way to get an interview with UK is to dress up like you would for an interview, go to HR with copies of your resume, and speak to someone in nurse recruiting. Just ask one of the girls in the main recruiting office if they would mind looking at your application and resume and see why you aren't getting any interviews. That is what worked for me. Keep in mind that it takes FOREVER and a day to get an interview going with UK. I just landed a new job in the CDU there, and I applied for that job May 14. I intervied July 6. My start date is Aug. 1. They are S-L-O-W in the recruiting office, mainly because they are processing so many applications.

Good luck! If you really want to work for UK, know that it will be a great opportunity. But stay far, far away from Good Samaritan, unless you are a glutton for punishment.

LuckyinKY · Jul 19, 2011

I have just started at Good Samaritan as a tech. Human Resources at Good Samaritan is very friendly and helpful, I have had a unique situation and they have gone out of their way to smooth the transition and calm my fears. I am in psych so I can't say anything about the other units, but the pysch unit is very well-run and this is the first time I have seen psych patients treated like human beings. Even the patients say that this is the nicest facility they have been to.

WildcatFanRN, BSN, RN · Jul 27, 2011

I've applied to both places, but I would REALLY love to work in Peds or Peds ED, or NICU. I just checked my application status online and it said that my applications for both have been referred to the department. I wonder if I can just call the departments and ask to speak to the managers to check my status? NICU would be a stretch though since I did my RNA 120 hours in one, loved it, but apparently wasn't a good fit for that particular hospitals unit. Totally blew my confidence, well that and the disaster of a job try in NC but I digress. I would really love to work at UK Medical Center, even with a 90 mile one way commute.

Amazingly I did have an interview at Good Sam shortly after getting my license and was even told I had the job, but apparently I didn't as the manager wouldn't return my phone calls after the 2 weeks he said I would hear something back from HR.

Are you looking to work at Uk or Good Samaritan? The pay and benefits are the same at both hospitals, but that is where the similarities end. UK has great staffing ratios most of the time, and is all in all a dream place to work compared to Good Samaritan. G.S. is understaffed, the nurses there are resistent to the changes UK has made since the merger, nurses and techs are overworked, UK dumps all their psych pts on G.S. You get a lot of detoxers, a lot of violent patients. There is not a sense of team work like you find at UK. The managers are a joke.
The best way to get an interview with UK is to dress up like you would for an interview, go to HR with copies of your resume, and speak to someone in nurse recruiting. Just ask one of the girls in the main recruiting office if they would mind looking at your application and resume and see why you aren't getting any interviews. That is what worked for me. Keep in mind that it takes FOREVER and a day to get an interview going with UK. I just landed a new job in the CDU there, and I applied for that job May 14. I intervied July 6. My start date is Aug. 1. They are S-L-O-W in the recruiting office, mainly because they are processing so many applications.
Good luck! If you really want to work for UK, know that it will be a great opportunity. But stay far, far away from Good Samaritan, unless you are a glutton for punishment.

WildcatFanRN, BSN, RN · Jul 27, 2011

You are a very special person to work psych.

All I want is an interview, but I haven't even been able to manage getting that. I guess I'm not to desirable anymore as a candidate since I've been unemployed so long. I think I may have a chance somehow.

I have just started at Good Samaritan as a tech. Human Resources at Good Samaritan is very friendly and helpful, I have had a unique situation and they have gone out of their way to smooth the transition and calm my fears. I am in psych so I can't say anything about the other units, but the pysch unit is very well-run and this is the first time I have seen psych patients treated like human beings. Even the patients say that this is the nicest facility they have been to.

LuckyinKY · Jul 27, 2011

I would physically go to the nurse recruitment office at UK, introduce yourself and give them a resume. I was called by them for an interview for a clerk position which I didn't really want, but the person who interviewed me was very quick to also understand that I need a tech position and even introduced me to the nurse manager for peds. She called me back this week to make sure I had applied for a ped tech position that was posted. I have worked at UK for 4 years in research, and I am losing my research position. I am prn in psych right now but I am worried I am not going to get enough hours and I really need a second prn tech position to make me feel more secure.

I was really impressed by how kind they were in nurse recruitment. She said they get so many applications it is so hard to stand out. They are looking at ways to improve the application process.

WildcatFanRN, BSN, RN · Jul 28, 2011

I've called nurse recruitment several times and have yet to be able to speak to a nurse recruiter. They have usually been in meetings or on another line or something. I guess I can take a trip to Lexington to actually speak to a recruiter. I spoke to a few of them at the Open House a few months back. I had hoped I made an impression then, but there were a lot of people there. I lost most of the good contact information I gathered because I put them in a place my mom decided to clean up. I can't believe it either, because it had the name and contact information for the managers of Peds ED, Peds Acute Care, and Med/Surg-Med/Tele at Good Sam.