KMBRN2002

I moved from MI in 2010 to Washington State. It was enormously scary. The longest part of the process was getting the RN by endorsement, so start that now...even if you decide to not move right away, you'll have that in hand. And, for me, the scariest part of that process was getting fingerprinted at the police station! We had visited out here in 2008 and fell in love with the state, the region...so we made it happen. I applied online at the hospital here in town, got telephone interviewed & got hired, sight-unseen and the hospital paid I think a $4000 relocation fee. It's definitely doable, but very overwhelming at first; start offloading possessions that you won't need, as early as you can. Make lists of everything you need to do, everyone you need to call or have called (with their phone numbers right there, just in case) and what you want to bring & what you don't. Research the towns & hospitals on line as much as you can. I had books of lists & information. Six years later and there's nowhere else in the world I would want to be.