LPN Jobseeker in Broward County, FL

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Hi everyone

I am in LPN school in South Florida (Broward County). I am also going to get my IV Cert right after the program. What are some of the highest paying employers in the area? I'm willing to travel as South as Miami if I have to. Also, I saw a few adds at hospitals looking for LPNs as well. Will the pay grade be significantly lower there?

THANK YOU IN ADVANCE!!

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ALSO!! Are there any places out there that help pay the costs to become an RN?

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Specializes in ICU.

HI!! I lived in Broward County all my life (36 years) before moving to North Florida last year after graduating from the LPN program. I have friends there, from my graduating class, that work at The Cleveland Clinic and the clinics at Holy Cross Hospital, in Ft. Lauderdale. I do know that Memorial Regional Hospital, in Hollywood, is integrating LPNs back into the workforce inside the hospitals. I interviewed for a telemetry position at Memorial this past June and was offered the job but had to decline it because they wanted to pay me $4.00/hr less than what I'm making now at a nursing home in Gainesville. I want to come back home SO BAD but the cost of living up here is SO MUCH LESS than it is in Broward and they pay more up here than they do down there, so I had to decline the position. I have seen 3 more LPN positions pop up on their web site since...You just have to keep checking their job site for the open positions. Memorial Hospital also helps pay for the RN program BUT if they assist you with tuition, I believe you will be required to work there for a contracted period of time and if you break that contract, you will be forced to pay the money back. A lot of my former classmates took positions as PCAs at Memorial Hospital just to get their foot in the door and for the RN program tuition assistance. They pay you LPN pay and not PCA pay because you are an LPN, although your scope of practice would be limited to a PCA because that's what you were hired as. GOOD LUCK!!

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Thank you for responding!! What exactly IS Lpn pay at memorial? I did a PCA program two years ago I got an interview with memorial and they wanted to pay me 11.00 an hour as a PCA..

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Specializes in ICU.

Memorial was going to pay me $16.00/hr plus $2.00/hr for shift differential (7p-7a) and an extra $2.50/hr for working on the weekends, so working at night, I would have made $18.00/hr, on the weekends I would have made $24.50/hr (includes shift differential and weekend pay added together).

I will let it be known that I ABSOLUTELY HATE where I work right now and I DO COMPLETELY REGRET not taking that position at Memorial. I should have just bitten the financial bullet and taken the job. :(

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I just moved from broward to PSL.

Memorial is very well reputable and I wasn't aware they hire LPN.

Thanks for the thread op and Kimurtle for the info.

Pookyp weigh in.....calling you out! Lol

Thanks ladies!

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Specializes in ICU.

Memorial stopped hiring LPNs a long time ago but they're now starting to integrate them back in. I almost fell off my chair when I saw a position open for one in the main hospital. There's two positions currently posted for LPNs on their job site but I think those are for physician practices. The 3 that I applied for and the one that I interviewed for were on the med surg floor in the main hospital.

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When I was going PCA at memorial I was following an LPN in my clinicals but she was the only one there and she had been there for almost ten years

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Specializes in ICU.

When I did my clinicals for the LPN program, I saw a handful of LPNs at Memorial South, in their rehab units but they were the ones that were "grandfathered in" when they started phasing them out and ALL of them were in the process of getting their RN.

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Oh that's exactly where I was! This was 2013. Well that you for the advice. Do you think Cleveland clinic pays the same? And what about Ltc?

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Specializes in ICU.

I was there in 2013/2014. I graduated from Sheridan Technical in April 2014. I'm not sure what Cleveland Clinic pays or the local LTC facilities BUT you're going to make more in an LTC facility and the clinics because that's where they utilize LPNs the most AND your pay is going to be based on how much experience you have. Memorial was going to pay me for less than 1 year experience even though I was 2 months shy of having that 1 year experience - my 1 year experience mark hit on August 11th. I know that when I looked into The Cleveland Clinic, they advertised their pay rates on grade levels - like starting pay was advertised as "pay grade 10"....whatever that means...

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pay grade 10 i think is about 16/ hour. did you have a lot of job opportunity or did you have to be desperate to get hired?

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