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Thanks! I appreciate the info!

Awesome, thank you SO much!! I'm so relieved to hear all this, I think you answered every question I had. I'll add you as a friend and if I have any more questions, I'll message you. Thank you again, I really appreciate your help.

My husband and I are moving to Portland in about a year from now, and have started looking into hospitals he might work at. We're moving from Alabama, and he will have about 2.5 years experience by the time we move. He's an RN, BSN and working in Cardiac Telemetry now. He is a Patient Safety Coach and Charge Nurse now, he's been patient safety coach for 3-4 months and charge nurse for about a month, but we're not moving for another year so he will have more experience with that by the time we move. Anyways I'm saying that because we've read that it is hard to get a job in Portland, do you think he'll have trouble finding a job? His nurse managers absolutely love him and he is moving up fast, they will give him a great reference. He's not set on being a charge nurse in Portland or anything, he mostly agreed to do it because he thought it would look good on his resumé. He would like to work in some type of cardiac telemetry or a cardiac step down unit. We've tried searching for hospitals in the area, but the maps are kind of confusing so we can't really tell what's an actual hospital and what's a smaller clinic or something, so other than OHSU and Legacy, are there any others that we should be looking into? Any other advice you have will be happily welcomed as well! He wants to secure his new job before moving, so does anyone know how people usually go about that? Will he be able to interview over the phone/video or will he have to fly up there for each interview? Also, is the pay pretty consistent across hospitals in the area, or is there a certain one/few we should avoid? Thanks so much!