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Any Navy blue scrubs will work.

You have to buy them yourself.

Ditto!

Banner only does a night shift differential.

Yep! About 8 months in as a new grad in a medical ICU and loving it. :)

Gateway's evening program was great for me, as I was in a similar situation. Most of the clinicals were on the weekends as well.

Well, the cost of living here is significantly lower than that of the Pacific Northwest. I think the last article I read said the average home here goes for 250-300K. Of course hospitals will pay more for experience/professional certs/etc, but at least in my system, 45/hour is right at the top of the pay scale. I'm sure not being a union state may play into pay too, but that's just my 2 cents.

Yes, they do. Those positions in general are hard to come by, but they're certainly there. AZBlueBell is a new grad in L&D. :)

After your orientation/preceptorship ends. It should be noted that while yes, you do pick your own schedule, the managers can change it to balance the staffing out.

For my system, they factor in the degree you're getting, school you plan on attending, as well as years of service. To be eligible, you must be a full time employee with at least 6 months of service. I would like to add that in my system, tuition reimbursement is very hard to come by. It might not be that way in other systems, though.

The only thing of note I can add is that employers don't necessarily pay FOR your BSN. I work for the largest healthcare system in the state and they offer tuition reimbursement, but it is a competitive application process. I'm not sure how other systems are, but I can't imagine they'd be too different.

I didn't.

Just nights, no weekend diff. I just got a raise, but raises are largely based on merit and going to the meetings and such.

It also depends on the unit, in addition to what AZBlueBell said. Most people on my unit do most of their orientation on days, regardless of whether they're hired for nights or not. This is to get experience with the Intensivists, bedside bronchoscopies, bedside EGDs, more codes (although we still have a bunch on nights), things like that. I should add that part of the reason I did mostly nights is because I worked days as a PCA so I was already accustomed to days.

I did almost all of my orientation on nights, FWIW. I think I only did like 5 day shifts lol.