New Grad Nurse (finish in May) Relocating to Orlando, FL

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Hello All,

I am a nursing student and I finish college May of this year with my BSN, I am relocating to Orlando, Fl. from Miami, Fl. I wish to move to Orlando by July/August of 2015, before the school year begins. I plan to apply any and everywhere that has new grad nursing positions. Anyone have any tips for applying to jobs, relocating with children, apartment hunting in Orlando, etc..? Any information would be helpful.

Thanks in Advance...

:-)

Yes if it is full then you would have to wait.

Have you tried other hospitals? I don't know where you are in Orlando. How about South Seminole Hospital in Longwood (small 200 plus beds). Longwood is a bedroom community of Orlando. Also South Lake Hospital in Clermont (20 miles west of Orlando) or Florida Hospital in Apopka or Altamonte Springs?

Also Florida Hospital at Celebration?

The other think you could try is if you know a nurse at Florida Hospital see if they can get you an interview with their manager.

At the moment, I applied for positions at FL hospital Celebration, Orlando, and Winter Park.

I have had more luck with Orlando Health and need to schedule a 2nd interview with Orlando Health - ORMC once I relocate to Orlando, which is in March.

I have been looking at all of the FL hospital campuses but no luck so far. The only nurse I know works in ORMC - Winnie.

I will look into hospitals outside of Central Florida once I figure out transportation.

Specializes in Tele/Interventional/Non-Invasive Cardiology.
I would not worry. And I don't take that statement lightly. Seriously Florida Hospital in Orlando has a huge shortage of RNS currently. You are in demand. All we are hiring is grad nurses because no experienced nurses apply. We were speaking to our manager and asked if we were hiring any experienced RN's she said and I quote, "We would if there was any crazy enough to apply." Yes indeed that is exactly what our manager said. Now that shows that she understands the floor is not exactly a wonderful place to work. That only grad nurses who need a job and will pretty much take any job to get their foot in the door. In fact we have a grad nurse on our floor who is still being precepted who was inquiring about getting out of her contract because it is too much.

Preeps, you are telling the truth and nothing but the truth. The experienced nurses seem to be all at night. However, I have not seen a new nurse who was experienced on my unit. And on day shift (on my unit) it is basically ALL graduate nurses. Which I frankly think it is unsafe. And it is too busy to get your bearings and actually figure out what you are doing. I just can't handle it there anymore.

Well congrats on landing the job. CTU is pretty much where people go while waiting to go to the correct floor. It is kind of like an over flow so you will get all different diagnoses.

The good thing about it is your goal (I think) is to care for your patient while waiting to transition them to the correct floor. So I think once they are stabilized in the ED they go there to your floor. You may get some direct admissions as well. I am not sure if you have techs and I am surprised the ratio even mentions 3:1. I thought it was 4 or 5: 1 on that floor. But maybe you don't have techs so you have a lower ratio? But if it is 3 patients with techs then you are one of the very few floors in the hospital with that kind of manageable patient load.

Just keep in mind it is a stepping stone for you. You will get your feet wet and if you don't like it you can move on. Good luck.

Finally done with Nursing school and I have been applying to hospitals in the Orlando area, does anyone recommend any career opportunities outside of Florida Hospital and Orlando Health

Specializes in Public Health Nurse.
You probably will have no problem getting hired at Florida Hospital Orlando as they are having huge job fairs etc for new RN's. They can't seem to keep nurses so they are always looking for new hires. I believe there is a new Grad Nurse program starting in March. I don't know about Orlando Health.

Do you have any idea why they "can't seem to keep nurses"? Makes me wonder of why such turnover.

Do you have any idea why they "can't seem to keep nurses"? Makes me wonder of why such turnover.

Yes. Because RNs are overworked, overwhelmed and unappreciated. Nurses at FH Orlando do all vital signs, all accu-checks (formerly tech jobs) and must travel with all PCU level and monitored patients to all tests and procedures in addition to assessments, meds etc. They will not let techs do tech work. We have few techs and all they are suppose to do is water, bath, and toilet patients. But there are so few that whenever you need them they are usually busy with other patients or on break.

Many times we have to leave the floor at 0800 am to take a patient to a test while our other patients are calling for pain meds etc. We are expected to be in 2 or 3 places at once. There is little to no help. And they always tell us to "use our buddies" but our buddies are in the same boat as we are running around like chickens with the heads cut off.

Furthermore, anything that goes wrong it is always the nurses fault. If one of our patients falls, it is the RN's fault. Then RN must then go, the next Thursday to a meeting of the higher-ups and explain what they could have done to prevent the fall. If a patients blood sugar goes too low they also have to attend same meeting and explain what they could have done to prevent this.

Nurses are leaving in mass exodus. That is why they are putting on the umpteenth "hiring even" early June to try and get new experienced nurses and are offering 20K bonus plus moving expenses.

I just applied to Florida Health Graduate Nurse program and I received a rejection letter, I was planing to attend the hiring event next month.

When did you apply and what did the rejection letter says? Did you pass your NCLEX and also do you have your BSN degree? I will say still attend the hiring event if you can, just to prove that you are really interested.

I applied a few weeks ago and the email said....

Thank you for your interest in Florida Hospital's Graduate Nurse program. We have reviewed your application and previous work experience. Based on the information that you provided to us along with our standards for academic and clinical excellence, we have identified other candidates to move forward in the selection process for the July and August 2015 positions. We invite you to reapply to the next positions for October and December of 2015. You will find that application at the end of July on our career website, www.floridahospitalcareers.com.

Florida Hospital receives a high volume of applications for Graduate Nurse positions. Therefore, we cannot extend the opportunity to interview to every candidate that applies. We wish you much continued success in your nursing career.

yes I have my BSN degree and no I haven't taken my NCLEX exam yet, but I will next month

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