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Can someone who works for UH give information on the hourly rate? I am aware their benefits aren't as good but I'm just looking for health insurance, PTO and a higher base pay from cc. Right now I'm making about $25.50 with 2 years experience at the clinic. Anyone?!

Can anyone offer more info about UH pay for a nurse with 2 years experience? Just looking for approximate numbers here. From what I gather it's somewhere around $28-$31? Also does anyone know how much their float pool pays? I am under the assumption full time float pool usually pays $3-$5 more an hr? Any input will help! I currently work at the CC. Looking to make more money.

Hey guys! congrats on all the new job landings lately! it sounds like things are starting to look better than when i made the decision to leave about a year and a half ago. for those of you who left the city, found good med/surg work elsewhere and are now looking to move back to the city (or other city) how have you been minding the prospects? Right now i have just over one year of excellent Med/Surg step-down unit experience at the Cleveland Clinic, working with heart and lung transplants. The clinics heart hospital is rated #1 in the nation for 19 years straight. i have been so lucky to gain this experience and i am hoping it will open more doors when i start looking in NYC again. My plan is to stay here for another year so i will have a solid 2 years with them, while also finishing up my BSN. Then i plan to start looking to get hired in nyc again and/or try out travel nursing. So my questions are, what do you think my chances are of getting a job back in NYC after i finish my 2 years at the Cleveland Clinic? Also, what are the current salaries and going rates for the NYC hospitals these days? I know there used to be a long help full thread on here with all the salaries but the thread has been closed for a long time. any insight helps!!

hello dear, i am sorry you are going through so much and it must be so hard to be a single mom on top of it. so with this hospital where you have been working for 10 years, are you a nursing assistant there? i think the first thing i would do would be to contact as many different people at this hospital as possible, not just this one person who has told you all these supposed rules they have. i would just apply my ass off there and use every network and connection possible, even if you don't know many people there. literally print your resume and cover letter out and spend a whole day going from unit to unit and trying to meet with the nurse managers of the unit, just tell them you have been working there for 10 years and get the ball rolling. you have to sell yourself, think of all the assets you could bring them and don't sell yourself short! being somewhere for 10 years is a huge benefit to them, you know A LOT more about how that hospital works than any other new grads they might have. i am also a newish grad and i am still learning so much on my unit and i constantly go to the pcnas etc on the floor who have been there a long time to answer a lot of my questions. the next advice i would have would be to consider moving, even if just upstate or a bit further out. where are you currently living? i lived in nyc for over 10 years and i also made the decision to move back home to where i am from to work for the cleveland clinic to get my experience. it is one of the only hospitals i know of (and it's a top 5 hospital in the nation) that will actually hire new grads, i know how hard it is in nyc! i also have my ADN. honestly right now i would focus more on getting some more experience rather than rushing to get your BSN. i would also apply to nursing homes, home health care and all that too. don't listen to all the people who say that you HAVE to work in a hospital right away, times are changing and hospital jobs are harder and harder to get. any nursing experience is better than NO experience, i worked in a nursing home for 4 months before i got my hospital job and it definitely helped me get the interview and gave me a lot to talk about during my interview as well. just stay strong and keep doing what you are doing, you will be moving forward soon enough. and use this 10 years of experience as much to your advantage as possible, that it a big deal and don't sell yourself short!

hi, i was just curious about the cleveland clinic's increase for shift differential of $5 after one year, do you know if this is true for all areas or was that specific to the ICU? i'm working on a step-down unit and wondering what my pay increase will be after one year. i also started as a new grad at $24.25/hr. it would be great if my shift differential goes up to $5/hr after one year but i haven't heard about this from anywhere else. thanks for any info!

hi, how did your phone interview go? sorry i never replied with more tips, but as you can probably tell now there aren't a lot of great tips to give other than just doing your best, and then waiting to hear back from a unit manager for your second interview. also, don't be discouraged if it takes a while to hear back about a second interview, your application is now in their 'new grad' pool and it's only a matter of time before there will be an opening for you to fill!

hi! congrats on your phone interview too! i am actually heading to bed as it's waaay past my bedtime and i am up for orientation in the morning! but i will write more tomorrow to elaborate on your questions. but yes you are correct in that the phone interview is just a 'general' interview to get you into the 'new grad' pool or applications, and from there on unit managers and CC recruiters will be looking at your application to determine a good fit and move you onto the second phase of 'in-person' interviews (i had two job offers from these). so you are at a good point in the process right now, and this is also a really good time of year to be interviewing. the CC is one of the only hospitals in that nation who fully support new grads! i will give you some pointers and more info about the phone interview etc tomorrow. you are on the right track!

i had wanted to attend this huge job fair last year but didn't have my ohio license at the time. i am happy to say that one year later i finally got a job at the cleveland clinic! but now i have a few questions for those of you who work there about orientation and the PBDS exam, as well at the METI edose math exam. i'm starting my orientation soon and i would really appreciate some feedback! how hard did you find the tests? any tips on what to study? for the PBDS i am studying the main med/surg emergencies and their interventions. for the drug calculation test i'm using a reference guide and doing practice questions, but this exam worries me the most as i have to get 90%. any tips would be greatly appreciated! lastly, i was told we get the chance to retest again for these exams, do you know if many people do not pass the first time? and how soon would you be retested? thanks!

so, it took me a little while but i finally landed a great job with the cleveland clinic! to answer your questions about the phone interviews, this is their first step in the process, as far as i know no one is going to offer you a job just from the initial phone interview, which is conducted by HR recruiters, not by nurse managers (who are really the ones who hire you). if you live out of state i have no idea how they handle the next step, but my hunch is that they will not pay to fly you out for an interview, but perhaps if you do end up getting hired maybe they will reimburse you for a portion, or offer some form of relocation assistance. i also know that you won't make it to the second phase of interviews, or be offered a job at all until you actually have your ohio license (i had my NY license so had to get endorsed for ohio which also slowed things down). i hope this helps! if you live out of state and are having a hard time getting hired, definitely get your ohio license and apply your ass off at the cleveland clinic. it could be the best decision you ever made for the future of your career.

i find it odd that every time i post in the ohio forum it's like crickets with the responses? everywhere else on the site (esp NY forum) i get a lot of responses rather quickly, it's surprising esp since the cleveland clinic is the largest employer in cleveland. i would think there would be a lot of CC nurses on here. anyways if there is anyone out there who has gone through the CC orientation i'd really love some feedback. thanks!

hi, i'm starting my cleveland clinic orientation soon and will be taking the PBDS assessment and their METI eDose math exam. I would really appreciate some feedback. how hard did you find the tests? any tips on what to study? for the PBDS i am studying the main med/surg emergencies and their interventions. for the drug calculation test i'm using a reference guide and doing practice questions, but this exam worries me the most as i have to get 90%. any tips would be greatly appreciated! lastly, i was told we get the chance to retest again for these exams, do you know if many people do not pass the first time? and how soon would you be retested? thanks!

thanks for everyone's input! i had my interview on the BMT unit and i was offered the job! i did really like the BMT unit but i was also offered my dream job on a heart and lung transplant step-down unit so i accepted this offer instead :)

hi, i have an interview on a bone marrow transplant unit soon and would like a little advice. i'm an (old) recent grad with less than a year of experience at a skilled nursing facility. i am interested in the BMT unit and oncology in general, my only concern is what types of jobs BMT will lead to after a year on this unit? i know BMT is very specialized and some compare it to working on an ICU, do you think i'd be able to land an ICU job with this experience? any other nurses out there work in BMT and then go in another direction like med/surg, ICU, PACU? i would also assume it would be fairly easy to transfer into general oncology fairly quickly? this job would be with a very well know teaching hospital and i know i would learn so much, i am just a little concerned about being pigeon holed.. any advice about BMT/oncology would be greatly appreciated! thanks!

thanks for all of your input. if the interview goes well and i decide to take the job i will adapt to the new schedule. i also had an interview in the ICU/CCU and am applying to a ton of jobs back in new york (where my fiance is) so we shall see where i end up. i will be very happy to begin my hospital experience :)

hi, i'm a recent graduate who has relocated back to my home state to find RN employment. i have an interview for a Bone Marrow Transplant unit with a very presitgeious hospital and i am very excited! but this unit has 8hr shifts and i would be on a day/evening rotation (7a-3p, 3p-11p). i am open to working 8hr shifts, however i was anticipating working 3, 12hr's which would allow me to travel more frequently to see my fiance who is in another state. i will have 3 out of 4 weekends off a month.. my question is: when i am scheduled to work on a weekend, do i then have two days off randomly during the week? how are those days off usually scheduled when i am working a weekend? (do they change each month?) also, in terms of paid time off, after i put in enough time at the job and am able to request days off, would i be able to take 1 or 2 days off per month in order to have a 3 or 4 day weekend for travel? i will be extrememly grateful if i land this job, my only concern is being able to travel once a month to see my fiance, as obviously this is a huge part of my life as well and had to be taken into consideration when i decided to relocate to find a job and leave him behind. any info and advice is greatly appreciated!

Hi, it stands for skilled nursing facility and its a term used in certain nursing homes that have a unit for more accute patients. Its basically a medicaid term, i enjoy working on mine and am doing a ton of things i learned in hospitals, ivs, traches etc.

thanks for your input. my goal would be to get with a LTAC setting, and feel that SNF is the best experience to work towards that. i also agree that home health and certain clinic experience does not challenge your time magagement and prioritization the way a SNF does. i think an IVF clinic would also be good experience and perhaps leed to an OB/GYN job. can anyone who has worked in home health as a first job for a year or so comment on jobs they got afterwards? just wondering how home health really looks on a resume to recruiters? thoughts on allergy clinic experience?

hi, i'd like your input regarding the best types of nursing experience that will eventually land you an acute hospital job. i am currently working full time as a charge nurse in a SNF (first job out of school). i am thinking about relocating to another state in 6 months where the jobs are even slimmer and just trying to figure out what my next best option would be. most of my classmates have been working in home health care since graduating. i am mostly curious if it is typically considered more or less desirable to have SNF experience versus home health experience? and where does working in an allergy clinic, medical office, IVF clinic etc fit in in terms of opening doors for hospital jobs? experienced nurses and/or recruiters i'd really appreciate your input! how do the following fields rank in terms of desirable experience for landing a hospital job? * SNF / long term care * home health care * allergy clinic * medical office / small clinic * IVF nurse coordinator * LTAC (i would assume this would rank highest) anyone out there work in any of these fields for 1-2 yrs and then land a hospital job? thanks for your input!

i couldn't agree with this statement more. and telling our new grads they should avoid working in SNF needs to end, a hospital job may be ideal but a job in SNF is a great way to begin your career and get your foot in the door. i know several nurses who used their SNF experience as a foundation to landing a hospital job. and yes any experience is better than no experience.

i totally agree with you. my grandmother passed last winter and i would prefer to work in a facility similar to the one that treated her than the majority of hospitals out there, the staff was excellent and highly skilled. i just wish hospitals were more open minded about hiring those with LTC, LTAC and SNF experience.

i would happily work in LTC, my only issue is that many hospitals don't consider this good enough experience to land a hospital job later down the road. do you know of any new grads who worked in LTC / SNF for a year or two and then moved on to an acute care position? i would hope things are starting to change and hospitals are being more open minded as most new grads are only able to land jobs in LTC these days. - my only other issue with LTC is working 8 hr shifts vs 12 hour shifts as i commute to see my fiance whenever i can so 12hr 3x a week is more ideal. anyone know of LTC facilities that are on 12 hr shifts?

hi, i'm an 'old' new grad (june 2011) who has recently relocated to a city that has more opportunities for new grads. I'm a second degree RN who moved back to cleveland after 10 years in NYC (where the RN job market is REALLY bad). i have a few possible leads regarding jobs and i'm trying to decide which avenue to pursue and what will most likely eventually lead me to a hospital job in an acute setting. 1. working at a Long Term Acute Care facility. (this is currently my focus) 2. working in Long Term Care (is there any hope at all of moving on to an acute position after working in LTC? i know the stigma exists, but some hospitals must consider this decent first job experience?) 3. trying to get a PCNA job in a large hospital, putting in my time there, networking like crazy and hoping it leads to an RN position eventually?.... 4. working as an IVF RN coordinator at a large fertility clinic in NYC (would i be able to move on to an acute hospital job after this type of work? or would i be stuck in IVF? perhaps it could lead to an OB/Gyn type job?... 5. Home Health. (is it considered better or worse than LTC in terms of leading to a hospital position?) any input would be greatly appreciated!! these are also things i am in the process of completing in order to build my resume: * enrolled in a nursing refresher course to keep my knowledge/skills up * taking IV therapy certification course for LPN/RN * taking a 12-Lead EKG seminar * volunteering as a patient advocate at the cleveland clinic

hi, i'm an 'old' new grad (june 2011) who has recently relocated to a city that has more opportunities for new grads. I'm a second degree RN who moved back to cleveland after 10 years in NYC (where the RN job market is REALLY bad). i have a few possible leads regarding jobs and i'm trying to decide which avenue to pursue and what will most likely eventually lead me to a hospital job in an acute setting. 1. working at a Long Term Acute Care facility. (this is currently my focus) 2. working in Long Term Care (is there any hope at all of moving on to an acute position after working in LTC? i know the stigma exists, but some hospitals must consider this decent first job experience?) 3. trying to get a PCNA job in a large hospital, putting in my time there, networking like crazy and hoping it leads to an RN position eventually?.... 4. working as an IVF RN coordinator at a large fertility clinic in NYC (would i be able to move on to an acute hospital job after this type of work? or would i be stuck in IVF? perhaps it could lead to an OB/Gyn type job?... 5. Home Health. (is it considered better or worse than LTC in terms of leading to a hospital position?) any input would be greatly appreciated!! these are also things i am in the process of completing in order to build my resume: * enrolled in a nursing refresher course to keep my knowledge/skills up * taking IV therapy certification course for LPN/RN * taking a 12-Lead EKG seminar * volunteering as a patient advocate at the cleveland clinic

thanks, yea i just learned that i am allowed to work as a PCNA. my only question is, do you think i should include the fact that i'm an RN on my application? i know they say not to 'identify' myself as an RN but i'm assuming that just means while i am actually working as an assistant and not during the application process. i have already applied to a new graduate position at the clinic so they have my information on file. i am also looking at all and any entry level RN positions in ohio, including LTAC. after my initial phone interview with the CC i was told that they just hired most of their new grads recently but that they will be having another big hiring event most likely this winter, so basically i am going to attempt to get a new grad job then, but of course in the meantime i want to be utilizing my skills, and networking as much as possible. that is why i think working at the clinic as a PCNA as opposed to full time in LTC might be a better move for me at this time.... thanks for your advice!

RNs are allowed to work as PCNAs in Ohio: "Can a licensed practical nurse / registered nurse work as a patient care assistant? The Nurse Practice Act does not prohibit a nurse from limiting his/her employment responsibilities to that of a patient care assistant or other unlicensed personnel. The licensed nurse that accepts employment in a position that does not require a nursing license and who chooses not to engage in licensed nursing practice should not identify him/herself as a nurse. If he/she identifies himself as a nurse or engages in the practice of nursing he/she will be accountable under the Nurse Practice Act and administrative rules."