Parkland Hospital in Dallas, TX

TheCommuter, BSN, RN · Apr 12, 2016

It is the third busiest hospital in the United States based on volume. It's the hospital where President JFK died after having been assassinated in 1963, so it carries a great deal of historical significance in the community.

If Parkland Hospital is listed on your resume as a previous employer, this means you'll be employable virtually anywhere in the South.

PinayUSA · Apr 12, 2016

It good to have on your resume. It is ghetto hospital on Harry Hines street where homeless and prostitutes hang out. It is the country Hospital for Dallas Country and subsidized by tax payers so they get the poor or the illegal aliens who have learn to work the system in USA.

I would work there at least a year and look at moving on to a private hospital like Presby in Plano where you can deal with a much better class of patients.

Personally, it seems if someone checks in for care they tend to get a staff infection there, that is from a consumer stand point.

Good thing is you can live far away from it and commute to work, fairly easy to get to from any part of D/FW metroplex....

Fiona59 · Apr 13, 2016

It good to have on your resume. It is ghetto hospital on Harry Hines street where homeless and prostitutes hang out. It is the country?.....
I would work there at least a year and look at moving on to a private hospital like Presby in Plano where you can deal with a much better class of patients.
Personally, it seems if someone checks in for care they tend to get a staff infection there, that is from a consumer stand point.
Good thing is you can live far away from it and commute to work, fairly easy to get to from any part of D/FW metroplex....

written but someone who is not a nurse.

"better class of patients"? Usually, the higher up the socio-economic scale, the ruder and demanding the patient.

you do realize that the majority of MRSA infections are brought in by the patient? Close living quarters, gyms, grocery store carts are all breeding grounds doe many viruses. Oh, and hospital staff. Hand hygiene is crucial. Yet doctors flit aroun units, rarely cleaning between b desiderata visits, with dangling ties and hair.

Horseshoe, BSN, RN · Apr 13, 2016

Personally, it seems if someone checks in for care they tend to get a staff infection there, that is from a consumer stand point.

"Staff" infection?

Are you a nurse?

Boomer MS, RN · Apr 13, 2016

It good to have on your resume. It is ghetto hospital on Harry Hines street where homeless and prostitutes hang out. It is the country Hospital for Dallas Country and subsidized by tax payers so they get the poor or the illegal aliens who have learn to work the system in USA.
I would work there at least a year and look at moving on to a private hospital like Presby in Plano where you can deal with a much better class of patients.
Personally, it seems if someone checks in for care they tend to get a staff infection there, that is from a consumer stand point.
Good thing is you can live far away from it and commute to work, fairly easy to get to from any part of D/FW metroplex....

I find this response quite odd. Are you a nurse? Staph infections, not "staff", specifically MRSA infections, are quite common for many reasons. Its incidence is addressed in every hospital in my experience.

NanikRN · Apr 13, 2016

It good to have on your resume. It is ghetto hospital on Harry Hines street where homeless and prostitutes hang out. It is the country Hospital for Dallas Country and subsidized by tax payers so they get the poor or the illegal aliens who have learn to work the system in USA.
I would work there at least a year and look at moving on to a private hospital like Presby in Plano where you can deal with a much better class of patients.
Personally, it seems if someone checks in for care they tend to get a staff infection there, that is from a consumer stand point.
Good thing is you can live far away from it and commute to work, fairly easy to get to from any part of D/FW metroplex....

I'm rather proud that Parkland is in my city and i'm glad that my taxes help support it. I'm proud that my city deems healthcare for "the poor or illegal aliens" a priority. I'm glad that we take a stand for the ones who aren't considered a good class of citizen by your standards.

Show me your stats on your assertion that if one checks in there, " they tend to get a staff infection" I'm betting there rates are equal or below othe DFW hospitals

It is not a ghetto hospital. You, however, have ghetto thinking

TheCommuter, BSN, RN · Apr 13, 2016

"Staff" infection?
Are you a nurse?

The member to whom you're asking this question is not a nurse, but his wife is one.

traumanurse66 · Apr 14, 2016

I have worked at Parkland for 5 years. It's an amazing hospital with an amazing staff. Yes, it is incredibly busy, especially since we opened the new hospital last summer. We built it, and they did come. The ED sees around 400-500 patients daily. The trauma & critical care internship and the residencies are top notch. Let me know if you want to talk offline.

Boomer MS, RN · Apr 14, 2016

I have worked at Parkland for 5 years. It's an amazing hospital with an amazing staff. Yes, it is incredibly busy, especially since we opened the new hospital last summer. We built it, and they did come. The ED sees around 400-500 patients daily. The trauma & critical care internship and the residencies are top notch. Let me know if you want to talk offline.

Parkland is famous in "The Trauma World", and I'm glad someone with first hand experience spoke up. It sees 400-500 patients every 24 hours? Yikes!

sneed1o1, BSN, RN · Apr 14, 2016

It good to have on your resume. It is ghetto hospital on Harry Hines street where homeless and prostitutes hang out. It is the country Hospital for Dallas Country and subsidized by tax payers so they get the poor or the illegal aliens who have learn to work the system in USA.
I would work there at least a year and look at moving on to a private hospital like Presby in Plano where you can deal with a much better class of patients.
Personally, it seems if someone checks in for care they tend to get a staff infection there, that is from a consumer stand point.
Good thing is you can live far away from it and commute to work, fairly easy to get to from any part of D/FW metroplex....

PinayUSA, your comment is very distasteful and prejudice. I have high respect for nurses who are employed by Parkland or JPS, who care for patients despite their social class and the basis for how they are able to seek treatment. Lord forbid that something happens that warrants you to seek medical treatment and you're not able to afford it or obtain it for other reasons. As far as "working the system", I'm glad my mother-in-law was able to become a legal citizen from a poor area in the Philippines by marrying an American man, so I'd be careful on your bias. On another note, I don't know too many nurses who chose their career to treat only rich patients. I thought we became nurses to treat SICK patients, whether it be physically, mentally, or otherwise. County hospitals are great places to learn...they are great teaching hospitals. I believe it's because they literally get everything that walks through the door, so the variety makes for a well-rounded nurse :up: I'm not sure what their contract involves, but it would be good to gain the experience and then transfer to another facility when it ends if you would prefer.

allnurses Guide · Apr 14, 2016

If you have a passion for serving the underserved and marginalized (ie: see PinayUSA's post above), the population at Parkland will be fulfilling for you.

Parkland is well known as a cutting edge hospital who has a history of many problems that they are now working hard to correct. It is rumored to be a pretty tough job on some units and a superb education on most all of them. I suspect if you can survive a few years at Parkland you can survive just about anywhere. It is a covetable opportunity for you and I congratulate you on being selected.

Ignore what PinayUSA has to say. He isn't a nurse and his opinion has little to do with nurses, what we do, what patients are like or what Parkland is about.