AdrianLU

December 09 grad. In Houston Medical Center base salary is 26.65 + about 3-4 dollars for night shift and weekends so around $30 dollar per hour total

It's "preferred" which basically means its required to have a BSN as a new hire in the Med Center. There are even rumors of them taking ADNs no matter how experience out of the ICU's where I am (rumor). Unless you know someone it will be very difficult.

What are your grades like? Are you BSN or ADN? Do you have any work experience in healthcare or related? These things factor in when applying for internship programs. Most hospitals only have the their internship as an entry point for new graduate RN's. Have you tried Harris County Hospital district yet? Keep applying I know its hard. Maybe also consider the VA as well as long term care facilities. Good luck.

It's not over saturated. There are plenty of jobs, it's just harder to get on without experience coming straight from nursing school or even having very little experience. Internships do look at grades. A lot of them are requiring at least a 3.0. My opinion is a BSN will open more doors for you in nursing. Quite a few major hospitals in Houston strongly prefer BSN's and some even require it for an entry level position.

Their residency program requires a minimum of 3.2 GPA, a BSN, and a 950 or better on your exit HESI. Also letters of reference, interviews, etc.

No, I never worked for them but, I guess it wouldn't hurt to do so if you get that opportunity. Just be sure to do your best and make sure the managers remember you for the right reasons when it comes time to apply.

I also think most schools are this way. Some people just aren't ready at that time and need to take a fail to light a fire underneath them so they can come back and finish the program, some people change their mind about nursing, and some people can't learn to think like a nurse and that is mostly what the first semester is about. Other's have things in their personal lives. In my BSN program we probably loss 20-30 people that first semester out of about 150. By the end of the program we probably loss like 10-20 more before our class graduated.

The rate stated is for Harris County in and outside of the Texas Medical Center (Houston), but I hear the base rate is very similar at St. Lukes and MD Anderson, for new graduates, but the differentials are different (slightly lower). There is a fee to park but a majority of the cost is covered by the county. St. Joseph's rate for new grads is $25 and some change as the base. The lowest I have heard is Hermann who I heard starts at around $24 for Interns but, the rate goes up comparable with the other TMC hospitals a few months into their orientation period.

Internships are pretty much the only way to get hired in Houston these days as a GN or RN without much experience. Jobs outside programs are harder to come by. Many hospitals won't even hire new nurses outside of their program. The programs are very competitive as well. I'm currently in one right now the structure is class room,, competency evaluation (testing), and working with your preceptor. We also have general hospital orientation, nursing orientation, specialization orientation, computer training, a project and ACLS certification...a LOT!! I'm in critical care and ours is 12 weeks. Other specializations last from 6-18 weeks. So far it is a really great opportunity to "hit the ground running" once you are done. You will be in a group of people in your similar situation many who are your classmates. Also you are getting paid/ full benefits in most cases throughout the orientation process.

Clearlake has a bad rep for being a difficult place to work (snobbish, cliques, high turnover rate). That all I have heard I have no experience with Clearlake first hand but this from what I have heard only.

To apply for the internship program will be posted for Hermann about 4-5 months before you graduate. The same with other hospitals. Hermann gave me the shake n bake when I applied to their program this past fall to start this January. But, luckly I got on somewhere I liked better. A lot of my classmates who did get hired initially chose not to sign contracts with Hermann due to various reasons and accepted employment elsewhere. I don't know what's going on over there or what it says in that contract but there where more than a few in my class who turned Hermann down. I'm a new grad/intern also and my schedule is every other weekend just like the other nurses in my area which is reasonable imho. Holidays are rotating based on seniority but we should have at least 1 off. It IS hard to get hired as a new nurse right now and competition is steep. At my hospital system over 300 applied for the program, 150 or so interviewed and only 38 people were selected. I applied at nearly every hospital in town and interviewed 8 times and luckily ended up with a position but, a good number of my classmates are still looking. With each hospital accepting so few the competition is FIERCE.

ADN's and BSN's make the same pay. The degree only matters when applying to certain hospitals in certain cities. In Houston's Med. center RN positions are harder to come by with an ADN but it you are hired you will get the same pay as a BSN. Most RN's at make the same pay based on experience. Some hospitals offer differentials for critical care or other specialty hospitals. It is also possible to make more by working shifts other than day shift. Here in Houston new grad RN's in the med. center are starting around $26/hr give or take 50 to 75 cents in either direction as the base pay.

Current New grad RN pay at a Major Medical center hospital in Houston is starting at 26.65 as the base pay. 1.75 weekend differential 3.50 night diff from 7p-11p 4.50 night diff from 11p-7a Outside of the med. center I was told around $25 and some change as the starting RN intern base pay. HTH

Avg. GN pay I am hearing is between 25-26 and some change in and outside of the medical center. Outside of the medical center being the lower end. This is also without shift differentials or critical care diffs.

Anyone have any ideas on who is still hiring/willing to hire in Houston or even anywhere in Texas. I have my BSN from a top school, good grades, experience as a social worker and as a pt tech but, on the verge of being homeless? I just don't get it. I think a lot of hospitals are very biased in their hiring practices. i don't know what I will do...