looking to move to florida

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Specializes in med/surg, pacu/sds.

icon11.gif i am looking to move to florida in the near future and would appreciate any imput as what facilities to stay away from and which ones have a good rep.

i am a late bloomer to the nursing profession. went back to school after my children were grown, so i have only been a nurse a little over 5 yrs.

i have worked mostly in med/surg,, but at times i have been on the ortho/neuro floor and helped in sds/recovery also.

i really would like to get in the oncology nursing field, but every place that i find that is

looking for a nurse wants exp.

any imput would be much appreciated

crrn03

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Specializes in Medical and general practice now LTC.

Hi and welcome to the site

Moving this to the Florida forum

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I am just a first semester student so I don't know alot about the facilities, but I do know that ORMC, Orlando Regional Medical Center is pretty awesome There are a couple differant locations. It has a burn unit and it is a Trauma Center.

The other major hopitals around here are Celebration Hospital, Florida Hospital - with about 5 locations, Health Central and St. Cloud Hospital. I actually haven't heard bad about any of the Hospitals.

I used to live in Tampa and heard good things about Tampa General and UCH - University Community Hospital.

I also used to live in Lakeland and the hospital there is LRMC, Lakeland Regional Medical Center. I did not hear much good about that hospital. The big complaint was that is was way overcrowded and understaffed. Turned patients away alot.

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Specializes in Med/Surg, ICU, ER, Peds ER-CPEN.

The Moffit center is willing to hire a new grad after 6 months on a med/surg floor so they'd most likely be willing to hire an RN with your experience, i don't know their website off hand but I'm sure it'll come up in a google search, good luck!

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