Really would appreciate this info!!!

Hello...I am an RN who relocated from Baltimore to Vegas. What a shock! Things are very different here. I was an OR nurse, till I came here. After 18 months working in this town I left the OR for a claims examiner position. In my opinion, the nursing shortage is much worse here. The nurses are unionized (which is a whole new concept for me), and I hear St. Rose has the best union packages, in town. I have been to the Sienna campus, and it is nice. One of my friends worked there (in the OR) and her only reason for leaving was too much on-call, as she has a baby at home. Be prepared for some terrible traffic, and (even worse) terrible seafood! LOL! Oh how I miss those steamed crabs! I heard St. Rose's new campus (San Martin) will have a neuro program. They are scheduled to open next month. That's all I know about St. Rose...hope it helps a little.

If you are interested in neurology/neurosurgery, Sunrise Hospital has a nationally recognized Neuroscience program. St. Rose definitely has the highest paid nurses in the city, but you will still be faced with a HUGE nursing shortage. I am still finishing up my BSN program right now, so I am not working as a staff nurse yet, so I really can't elaborate on your other questions. However, I do know of the call situation. Even though St. Rose isn't a "teaching" hospital persay, local residents at other hospitals still do some rotations at St. Rose.

i work in st rose & we have actually a neuro interventional radiology & siena has become a stroke facility so all nurses in siena has to take the neuro nursing test over the internet.we have inhouse 16 hrs lecture(paid by the hospital & you are paid per hr as well) on neuroscience nursing.it's only st rose that has a better staffing than other hospitals in the valley.