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I did my nursing clinicals here, and cried every day after! I actually did PCU and tele. What a disaster. There are not any nurses working there. When I was there, 2 nurses were on for a 20 bed tele unit. We were taking care of the pts as students and charting without any direction for a RN. Very scary what happens to these patients. I almost called a family member to get one of my patients out of that hospital. Doctors "oversee" a lot of problems that arise in these pts, and they become very sick very quick!

I worked at palmswest for 2.5 years, Good Samaritan for 13 weeks and many of my friends at JFK. I went to nursing school and lived in the area for 15 years, now im in Cali. I would say no to Palmswest due to the low pay and nursing shortage! I worked in the ER in both pedi an adults. Very clean enviroment. There is not cusing and screaming as another said. The ER doctors are ALL very welcoming and the patients are not hard to please. The only reason I left, as a staff nurse, is the pay is terrible and that caused a big shortage. Good Sam is a great place to work. The pay is good, the nurse manage is wonderful and the staff all get along. The set up of the ER is nurse friendly. Rarely ever do they use hallway beds because of privacy issues. There are wealthy people that go there, from Palm Beach island, and there is a "floor" for them when they get admitted as well. When I go back to fla. this is the hospital I am requesting. JFk is super busy but is affiliated with palswest, very low pay. Nice hospital in a great are. High acuity pts because they are a cardiac center. More of a geriatric population because of location. Hope this helps you out! Palm Beach county is a beautiful place to live as well. I still live there, but have just begun traveling over the past year and have been back to visit 5 times!

I have been with AMN for the past year. They have good and bad points. My recruiter is nice, but in it to make herself money. I had to threaten to not resign with her unless she increased my stipen. I live in Los Angeles and after speaking to other travelers, found out they were getting quite a bit more than I was. I e-mailed my recruiter and within the next week had an increase in my stipen. The nice thing is, they have multiple contracts in every city.

I currently work for Kaiser, if you have other options go with them. Kaiser hospitals have more people in charge than nurses working on the floor! Nobody communicates there! There are about 20 travel nurses in the dept i work in, and NONE of them have resigned or are thinking of doing so. I work nights, and you would think it would be less stressful? WRONG... But the telephone interview isn't that bad. It's very long, about 45mins. They ask you about different medications and what they are used for. Also, some procedures and scenerios. It all goes through NurseFinders, a 3rd party company that does the interviews. Hopefully this helps :)