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Hi! Im a recent new grad and I have an interview with MSH in the NICU for a fellowship. Has anyone heard back? What was the interview like? What questions did they ask? any advice? also does anyone have any info on which NICU is better the main hospital or Mount Sinai West. thanks

heynursehere said:

Why are you planning on moving from Cali? I've always heard they treat and pay their nurses really well there. 

Did you end up hearing back from the NICU??

 

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heynursehere said:

Why are you planning on moving from Cali? I've always heard they treat and pay their nurses really well there. 

As cliché as it sounds I'd be moving there because my boyfriend moved to the east coast. He came to Cali for school and moved back to NY afterwards. Being a nurse in California is amazing! There are mandated breaks, ratios and good pay. That's why I am a bit concerned about what the working conditions are for nurses in NYC. For example for my medical surgical rotation the ratio was 1:3 (tele patients) or max 1:4 and there are designated break nurses and resources nurses. Is it like that in NY? 

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cutie pie xoxo said:

As cliché as it sounds I'd be moving there because my boyfriend moved to the east coast. He came to Cali for school and moved back to NY afterwards. Being a nurse in California is amazing! There are mandated breaks, ratios and good pay. That's why I am a bit concerned about what the working conditions are for nurses in NYC. For example for my medical surgical rotation the ratio was 1:3 (tele patients) or max 1:4 and there are designated break nurses and resources nurses. Is it like that in NY? 

Nope not at all LOL. My sister is an adult med surg nurse at NYP in NYC and can usually have 5-8 patients depending on the day. NICU and other ICUs though usually stick to a max of 3, but moreso 1 or 2 if the patients are higher acuity. 

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AKR0621 said:

Nope not at all LOL. My sister is an adult med surg nurse at NYP in NYC and can usually have 5-8 patients depending on the day. NICU and other ICUs though usually stick to a max of 3, but moreso 1 or 2 if the patients are higher acuity. 

5 to 8 patients?!! No way. How is that safe?! Stuff like that worries me because in the NICU patients are usually unstable for the most part so having any more than 3 babies sounds like a nightmare. We are definitely spoiled over here on the west coast LOL. 

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AKR0621 said:

Nope not at all LOL. My sister is an adult med surg nurse at NYP in NYC and can usually have 5-8 patients depending on the day. NICU and other ICUs though usually stick to a max of 3, but moreso 1 or 2 if the patients are higher acuity. 

I agree LOL. I've seen med surg nurses assigned 11 patients before. Besides the obvious understaffing problem everywhere and shortage of nurses, it's usually the hospitals that aren't unionized and that don't have good management/supervisors that will allow stuff like this to happen. 

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AKR0621 said:

Did you end up hearing back from the NICU??

 

I reached out to the NICU manager and unfortunately she told me all the spots got filled :(, Wishing you and everyone else in  the orientation good luck, keep me posted on how it's going once you start! 

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heynursehere said:

I reached out to the NICU manager and unfortunately she told me all the spots got filled ?

Man that's unfortunate ? did she happen to say how many spots there were? I'm curious how many people are in my cohort 

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AKR0621 said:

Man that's unfortunate ? did she happen to say how many spots there were? I'm curious how many people are in my cohort 

It's OK. It's my fault, I thought our interview went really well, but I guess I should've followed up with her sooner rather than trying to get in contact with the recruiter. I have no idea, I wish I had asked her. Wasn't the fellowship originally supposed to start October 2nd I think? I wonder what made them push it back to October 30th. 

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heynursehere said:

It's OK. It's my fault, I thought our interview went really well, but I guess I should've followed up with her sooner rather than trying to get in contact with the recruiter. I have no idea, I wish I had asked her. Wasn't the fellowship originally supposed to start October 2nd I think? I wonder what made them push it back to October 30th. 

I had my interview mid September and at my interview they told me the flyer was wrong!! October 2nd was a tentative date I'm assuming when they first made the program but they already knew they'd be pushing it back, they just didn't give me a specific date as to when 

heynursehere said:

I reached out to the NICU manager and unfortunately she told me all the spots got filled :(, Wishing you and everyone else in  the orientation good luck, keep me posted on how it's going once you start! 

And thank you so much I will!! Good luck to you as well!

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AKR0621 said:

I had my interview mid September and at my interview they told me the flyer was wrong!! October 2nd was a tentative date I'm assuming when they first made the program but they already knew they'd be pushing it back, they just didn't give me a specific date as to when 

And thank you so much I will!! Good luck to you as well!

Oh OK, I really wish they offered more new grad fellowships in other specialities. The only other one I saw was for ambulatory care which had a Spring cohort and fall one which started last month. But the NICU one didn't mention have two cohorts, that would've been great. 

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AKR0621 said:

I had my interview mid September and at my interview they told me the flyer was wrong!! October 2nd was a tentative date I'm assuming when they first made the program but they already knew they'd be pushing it back, they just didn't give me a specific date as to when 

And thank you so much I will!! Good luck to you as well!

Hey AKR0621,

How's orientation going so far?

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Wondering how it's going for those that started in this last cohort for NICU? Do you feel supported? Also does anyone know when the next cohort will happen? 

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