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Hello all, I've read quite a few topics here about the difficulties for a new grad in Boston. I'm considering relocating from Jacksonville, FL to Chicago in about 6 months. I have three years of experience in psych (acute/crisis, long term/state hos...

Hello! I have an interview soon at Memorial Hospital in Jacksonville, FL. Anyone work here? Any information would be appreciated - pay, benefits, flexibility, tuition coverage, patient to nurse ratios, anything else you have to say? I'm experienced ...

Now that I've thought on it, OR is not a good environment for me, though I think I would really enjoy it. I have narcolepsy, and while circulating wouldn't be a problem, if I had to stand still for long periods I can have bouts of cataplexy. :/ Norma...

Hello all, I have over 3 years of experience as a psychiatric nurse, with an additional 6 months as a psych tech before graduating nursing school. I'll have my BSN in a little over a semester. I worked at a stand-alone, acute psychiatric hospital (a...

I have 3 years and 3 months experience as a psych nurse as of this very minute (I'll be just under 4 years when I'm applying for jobs). This is NOT including the 6 months of tech experience I had prior to graduating nursing school. One of the reason...

Anyone work at OPMC in Jacksonville / Orange Park, FL? I have an interview there soon and I'd like some insight on pay, benefits, patient ratios, anything you might have to say. The unit I'm interviewing for is a medical-psychiatric unit. Not their...

That's so helpful, thank you! I got the offer on the spot and I'm accepting. :) That's all helpful information. Tuition assistance is definitely wanted and needed, and I'm very much looking forward to a flexible schedule. I don't even mind picking up...

Considering my long-term boyfriend just had a vasectomy and we are very, very childless, motherhood is not an obstacle I'll have to deal with soon. Or ever. =)

I'm working 5 days, 8 eight hour shifts a week. I HATE it. I used to work 8s but when I was only 32 hours at another facility (with a M/w/f and alt weekends schedule) it was tolerable. I didn't have a lot of time off, but I could frequently pick up a...

I'm sorry this happened to you, violent or combative patients are never easy to deal with. However, I find it AMAZING that your employer gave you ANY time off for this, let alone an entire week?! PAID?! Holy sh*t. Please don't say management doesn't ...

That's good to hear, thank you. I did find out in my interview that they do have 12 hour shifts, so that's good. =) I've heard that they have a hot n cold reputation, but everything I've heard from patients and nurses that I've known has been positiv...

I worked at a UHS facility in FL for two years. Initially, it was very busy, and sometimes overwhelming, but the majority of the time it was manageable. After AHCA/DCF/JHACO came, administration decided they were going to mandate a ton of changes, ma...

If it's easy, you're doing it wrong... seconded, thirded... ad infinitum... Try figuring out what your patients medical issues are when they're speaking nothing but word salad and sign their name Abraham Lincoln. When they're a JSO dropoff and the B...

Hello! I'm not quite graduated yet but I'm well on my way through my prereq's to an RN program. I've been hearing a lot of discouraging things on this forum lately about new grads, but I was wondering if it was any different in psych. How hard is it...

I've been hearing a LOT of discouraging things not only about the "new grad" RN hiring in Florida, but everywhere. But nothing's really very consistent.. I see a lot of posts about not being able to find a job as a new RN but a lot of people wind up ...

Wow! Thanks so much for answering all of my questions in such great detail. You've really given me hope in a lot of aspects. How long did you work in Cali? If need be that I need to get a job somewhere where the pay is greater for a while [and I cou...

Yes, I suppose that's true. If I couldn't find a job in psych and it came down to it I would have to look somewhere else of course. I guess I assumed psych would be more in demand because not everyone likes to deal with the "crazies" like I do. [Not ...

I know I'm asking a little early, but I figured I would at least put it out there so I could see any increase/decrease. I should be graduating depending on if my program lets me study through the summer or not in a year and a 1/2 or a little over tha...

I'm not going to be applying for the program until Fall '10 unfortunately, [actually *applying* in the summer but hoping to start in fall of course!] but I wish you luck. :) I've also noticed what I thought would be the opposite.. people applying for...