Marcus119

I live in the city and don’t have a car so can’t comment much on traffic. There are nice parts of the city and I think a pharmacist and nurse couple should be able to afford to live in them.

If you’re both nurses then your combined salaries should afford a great lifestyle and you could afford to live in a nice area. I’m single though and making roughly 160k here doesn’t get you all that much. Very close to the tenderloin which is the worst neighborhood in the city. There’s feces all over the sidewalks and it reeks of urine. Trash everywhere. You can’t walk down the street without somebody begging for money or trying to sell you drugs. I haven’t experienced any violent crime but I’m sure some do.

Thank you for the information

Is that a freestanding psych hospital or a psych unit that’s part of a general hospital? Union or non-union? Thank you.

Is that at a freestanding psych hospital or a psych unit part of a general hospital? Union or not?

Hello, I'm an RN currently working in the San Francisco Bay Area. I've got about 6 years of experience in my specialty and am considering relocating to or around Los Angeles. Can anyone give me a rough idea of what the pay is like down there for nurses working in unionized hospitals?

Hi. Thanks for your response. I actually just got hired at one of the inpatient psych units in SF, though I don’t want to say which one publicly. If you want to work psych in Sacramento area then you want to either work for Sutter Center For Psychiatry or you want to commute to Woodland Memorial Hospital out in Woodland. WMH is Dignity Health and they do 12s. It’s a great place to work. I’ve heard good things about Sutter Center for Psych but haven’t worked there myself. They’re 8s. You absolutely do NOT want to work for Heritage Oaks Hospital or Sierra Vista. I used to work at heritage oaks and it was truly miserable. Sierra Vista is the same company and colleagues have told me they’re just as bad. Let me know if there’s anything else specific you want to know.

Hi all, I’m an RN working inpatient psych in the Sacramento area and am considering relocating to SF next year. I understand there are two inpatient psych wards in SF: Langley Porter and a psych unit that’s part of Saint Francis Hospital. Wanted to hear from anyone that works at either of these. Are you happy there? What are the staffing ratios like? Do you have security/do you feel safe? And what’s they pay like? Feel free to PM anything you’re not comfortable posting publicly.

Hello all, I'm sure this thread has been made before but I couldn't find exactly what I was looking for. I'm finish up my third semester of nursing school and have only one more to go (yay!). I've done both days and PM clinicals, but I'm curious about NOC shift. I guess I'm just not sure what NOC shift nurses do most of the time. Obviously you're doing assessments and probably doling out pain meds periodically. I assume hanging abx for some patients and checking blood sugars for those that needed a 2100 insulin. Is that kind of the gist of it or is there way more to it? Also, do you have wake patients up a lot and do they get mad at you for it?