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Specializes in FNP-C, NICU RN.

I'm hearing that the Portland market for RNs is extremely tight. Is this true?

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Specializes in CCU, SICU, CVICU.

Without prior experience, yes. If you have experience, it's pretty easy.

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Specializes in FNP-C, NICU RN.

Great, thanks for the reply. Yup, I have 2.5 years of experience in NICU and Mother/Baby. I was thinking of traveling nursing up there at first since I don't really know much about the area. Would you have any recommendations for good places to work? Thanks!

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I’ve heard great things about Legacy. People seem to like Kaiser as well. Providence is doing interesting things in Women’s Health (hospital supplied doulas, and they seem to have a huge focus on lactation).

There’re so many options that you might as well travel between them for a while. One of my L&D coworkers did that for a couple years as she found it was so lucrative and eventually settled at her favorite hospital.

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Legacy/Randall Children is a really nice NICU but not sure they will be looking to hire. Lost OHP contract so volume is way down and hours are being cut in NICU/PICU

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