Relocating to Coastal SC

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Hello everyone!

I am relocating to the beautiful SC coast as quickly as I can sell my Smoky Mountain home in Gatlinburg, TN. Nursing is a 2nd career for me after almost 2 decades of Sales/Marketing in the television and beverage industries. I've been an RN for a year now and worked 6 months in Pediatrics and 6 months and counting (still employed) in Acute Care and Mental Health (PRN). My strengths include fluency in Spanish and English and almost 7 years of diabetes management experience. My youngest child was diagnosed at the age of 20 months and is now 8 years old. I live and breath diabetes 24/7.

I saw quite a few open position at Grand Strand and most were PRN. If anyone is working in one of the coastal hospitals, I would greatly appreciate suggestions, recommendations (where to apply) and so forth.

As for residency, I would like to be within 30 minutes of the ocean since outdoor space is a necessity with 7 dogs (4 of which are Great Pyrenees). Any suggestions, recommendations, directions, etc...is GREATLY appreciated.

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Specializes in EMS, ED, Trauma, CEN, CPEN, TCRN.

How far south on the "coastal" spectrum are you looking to go? Hilton Head Island has a hospital.

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The spectrum is rather open at the moment provided it is near the coast. Do you work at the Hilton Head Hospital or know anything about it?

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Specializes in EMS, ED, Trauma, CEN, CPEN, TCRN.

I work in Savannah, but we enjoy visiting Hilton Head. It's a small hospital and is a Tenet Health facility: Hilton Head Hospital-Hilton Head, SC

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Thank you very much! How is Savannah in terms of employment opportunity?

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Specializes in EMS, ED, Trauma, CEN, CPEN, TCRN.

Savannah has Memorial Health, which is a Level 1 - always hiring, very busy, you'd see everything there. There is also St. Joseph's/Candler, which is one system but two hospitals. Cost of living in the area is reasonable. I love Savannah, personally. :-) I work full-time for the Army in its local community hospital and casually at Memorial and soon also at St. Joe's/Candler. The pay for me (PRN in the ED, seven years of experience) is a bit higher at St. Joe's/Candler than Memorial.

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