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I love my per diem position; I've been doing it for 9 years. Per diem nurses make more money per hour in lieu of benefits. I am a per diem Nurse in Minneapolis where we make $50/hr for 8 hours, time and a half for 1st 4 hours of OT and double time for last 4 hours of OT so you can make $1100.00 in one 16 hour shift. We do get a pension but no vacation time or sick days or insurance but you do your own scheduling and you will be the 1st one cancelled if the hospital doesn't need help that day which doesn't happen very often here in Minneapolis. This works great for me because my husband's job provides the insurance benefits that I need. I highly recommend it to anyone. If i needed benefits i would take a job at 1 hospital and work the minimum for insurance and work per diem at another. good luck!

Hello from Minneapolis Mn. Looking for warmer winters hopefully without giving up the fantastic standard of living that minneapolis has given us. Any one who can give me any info on where to live and work would be much appreciated. I'm a ICU RN with 15 years of ER, CVICU, MICU, CICU experience. Would love any info on what my hourly salary might be and how you would rate the standard of care in SC.

Are you open to living in other states? If so look other than Florida! I own a home in lake Nona FL.( on the boarder of orlando) and my property taxes went from $5900 to $7017 this year and that is with the homeowners exempt. Home owners insurance is high in Florida with most Insurance companies refusing to insure any homes along the coast or near the coast. The cost of living is high and wages are low with over 2 million Floridians living below the national poverty level. Nursing conditons and salaries are among the worst in the U.S. I would not live in Fl. if I had school age children. Florida has the worst graduation rates in the country and when I checked the Orlando area on the familywatchdog.us website for child predators the map lit up like a christmas tree. My husband retired at 54 and always wanted to live in Florida because of the warm weather in the winter months. I live and work as a RN in Minneapolis Mn. and winter in Florida. I've heard nothing but bad about Florida health care from every RN I have talked to so I choose not to work there. We signed papers to build our home in 5/04 and it took 1 year to complete and was horrified by the acceptable quality of home construction. We will be leaving Florida soon.

I have lived and worked in Minnesota since 12/97 till present. I also built a home and live part time in Lake Nona, Fl.(on the boarder of Orlando). The weather in Florida is the only thing that is good about it. The state of Health care in Florida on a scale of 0-10 is a 1 compared to Mn. which I rate a 9/10. The conditions are horrible and the wages are on average $20.00 less per hour than Mn. We built our home in Florida right before the housing boom in 6/2004 so we do just fine but I work in Mn and only per diem at Florida hospital. Florida's cost of living is high with wages horribly low no matter where you live. For example in Mn. right now a gallon of regular gas is $1.92/gal in Fl. $2.59. I've heard that St Augustine is one of the most beautiful places to live in Florida but I think the standard of nursing care for patients and yourself should be the most important deciding factor on where you want to live and work