ReconRN

I am moving to NC, preferably around the Charlotte area. I am an in-patient Psych RN with 2 yrs experience and need to apply to hospitals in that area. The big ones are Atrium and Novant. Does anyone have knowledge of what it is like to work for them and what is the pay rate for someone of my experience? I make a base pay of 37.52 hourly working for a level one trauma hospital here in Portland Maine. I need to make at least that and I just assumed because it is the south that I won't make that much. Unfortunately the job listings do not show pay rates.

Thank you for the info, I am not yet a nurse. I graduate next year with my BSN and I will be 51yrs old. I am just thinking about what type of nursing I want to do and what interests me. I love surgery and how they are performed so this is why I am considering OR nurse.

I am graduating from my nursing program from USM here in Maine next year and one of the Portland hospitals has an OR nurse internship and I am considering applying. The problem being, I straight Cath a patient the other day and bending over the bed for that short period of time had my back on fire. I am a 50 yr old 6ft 3in male and I wonder if OR nursing is a good fit for a tall person.

Thank you all for the replies. The instructor finally gave us a handout using SOAP as our instructions. My group has decided to use a 27 yr old male patient who is concerned with not being able to get his wife pregnant because he has CF and possible mucous build up in his vas deferens. I didn't come up with this, it is what I am stuck with. lol!!

I am having to do a case discussion on Huntington's disease for pathophysiology. Basically we have to write it as if we are nurses giving our end of shift report to the next staff members. I am thinking we need to let them know the condition the patient is in and things of this nature. It is to be only about 10 minutes long. My question is has anyone done this and how would I outline it or give an order of providing the info.