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UMC treats their nurses the best but pays the worst, it will still feel like you won the lottery coming from NC

There is not a very high level of medical care available to patients in Nevada. Patients with complex pathophysiology often get shipped to Southern California. A lot of medical and nursing practice is done because of habit and not evidence

Also sunrise has a bad rep because it has terrible ratios across the board

You will probably have a hard time getting an icu job in Las Vegas. Most hospitals want previous relevant experience with very few spots for newbies each year, and I don't think dialysis is close enough to count. Beyond that if you are used to California health care you may find it scary here. Vegas and Nevada in general is a medical desert

Thanks for the info nicki! What do you know about micn companies in the area? Would that be a good job?

You already work there, couldn't you find out by talking to staff or the manager?

Interesting!

Which Bay Area hospitals only pay nurses 70k a year? That seems off

I'm not sure if you misunderstood my post because of the huge chip on your shoulder, but I am not an ED nurse I am an ICU nurse. i do not care about the politics of the ED at UC Davis at all. I have been a trauma ICU nurse for going on three years and I am just trying to get a feel for the Sacramento area before I move there. I just wanted to know if they still get plenty of sick trauma patients so i can take care of them in the ICU because that's what I enjoy doing. get over yourself

Despite these issues, is UC Davis still the busiest in terms of trauma? I'm an ICU nurse so I'm not as concerned about ED work conditions, ha

That's too bad. Do you think they are actively working to fix these problems?

Why does it seem like UC Davis ER is always hiring staff? What's the issue there?

Hey outriton, any chance I could talk to you about working in the Sacramento area? I'm ideally moving there in the next year. I'm not active enough to be able to PM here but if you'd be willing to chat just pm me an email address you're comfortable sharing. I'm an ICU nurse and I'm most interested in UC Davis. Thanks for considering :)

thanks. what about CNA's contract with the UC system? know anything about how those negotiations are going?

What kind of changes are happening with the union contracts?