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Hi, I am applying for a nursing job in a NICU as a new grad. this next May in North Carolina. I am looking for feedback on the hospitals near my home- I'm going to school in NY so I don't get much feedback from them about places in NC. I am considering: Moses Cone, Forsyth, Baptist, Wake Med, Alamance, Duke, and UNC. I have a few general interviews set up already over the week of Thanksgiving. Any comments would be great. Thanks!

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Specializes in Case mgmt., rehab, (CRRN), LTC & psych.

You might gather more information by posting this very same question on the North Carolina Nurses Forum. Click on the link below to get there, and good luck to you! :)

http://www.allnurses.com/forums/f165/

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Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte has an awesome NICU. This is a large teaching facility and has an excellent reputation.I have a friend who works in the NICU there and she loves it.

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Thanks for the info. My husband works in Greensboro so I'd like to be as close to there as possible and Charlotte might be a bit too far!

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Specializes in Med-Surg/Peds/O.R./Legal/cardiology.

WHOA!! Charlotte would be WAY too far! I would recommend Baptist Hospital in Winston-Salem or WakeMed at Wake Forrest. Both are excellent teaching hospitals. UNC Chapel Hill is excellent also, but is a bit further away. GOOD LUCK!! Welcome to North Carolina!!!

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Hi, I am applying for a nursing job in a NICU as a new grad. this next May in North Carolina. I am looking for feedback on the hospitals near my home- I'm going to school in NY so I don't get much feedback from them about places in NC. I am considering: Moses Cone, Forsyth, Baptist, Wake Med, Alamance, Duke, and UNC. I have a few general interviews set up already over the week of Thanksgiving. Any comments would be great. Thanks!

Cone is a very good facility. Likewise Forsyth and Baptist.

Alamance is a good, general hospital, and one that's doing a lot more specializing than they used to, and bringing in more medical specialists. I used to work there. It's maybe a 20 minute drive from Greensboro, depending on where in Greensboro you'll be living.

Duke, UNC and Wake Med would each be at least an hour away. I wouldn't recommend them (though they're all fine places) unless you had a particular reason for needing to be there.

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Hey, thanks. Well, I was also thinking that we could live midway between RTP area and GSO if I were to work at UNC, Duke, or Wake Med. But I don't know how long term that would be.

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Hey, thanks. Well, I was also thinking that we could live midway between RTP area and GSO if I were to work at UNC, Duke, or Wake Med. But I don't know how long term that would be.

There are a lot of people who live in Mebane:

http://www.cityofmebane.com/

when one spouse is working in the Greensboro area, and the other in Durham/RTP/Raleigh/whatever. It's a small city, growing, and close to I-85/40.

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