New Graduate RN Float pool

[Chapo84]

I have an interview for a float pool 7p-7a at one the of the Steward Healthcare companies and wanted to know if anyone got hired as a new grad in the float pool. I've seen equally both good/bad comments and wanted to just get the feel from previous people in similar experiences.

[BedsideNurse]

As for why they would allow new grads to be candidates... to be frank, you're a body with a nursing license and you're cheaper than an experienced nurse. Steward is a for-profit system, they're running a business and they want to make a profit. Their goal is not to give you a good learning experience or grow you into a good nurse but to use you to their benefit.

--Plenty of money to be made in the not for profit hospitals. Check out the pay and benefits

of top management at a moderate to large "nonprofit" sometime. I've worked for both profit and nonprofit and they all skeleton staff and make cuts around patient care and the bedside, so they can receive big bonuses for meeting

their budget, reducing expenses, etc..They are essentially indiscernible on the ground.

[Ice_cream_eyes]

I started in a float pool position as a new grad. I work at Brigham and Women's and they provide a lengthy orientation for new grads in the float pool. You don't start floating all over for quite a while, they keep you to one or two units and gradually expand.