As a new graduate who studied in Europe and moved back to NYC I applied at quite a number of hospitals. The first one that offered me a job was Lenox Hill in Manhattan. Now I think it's okay over there. Not bad really, but living in Northern Queens the commute is getting to me. I really like the flex time schedule (11.5 hour nights 3 times a week) and the patient ratios are pretty good when they are enforced (8:1 on a med-surg floor) and the salary is not bad (I make 62,000 plus 1,200 BsN differential and 4800 night differential).
Truly what I would like is a similar deal somewhere more convenient. I am hoping that some of you work in a hospital in Queens or Long Island and know if the salary/hours/ratios are similar. At this point I would take a small paycut just for the relief of not having to hump it into the city every night I work.
Hospitals I would be interested in: Flushing Hospital, NYH of Queens, Mt. Sinai of Queens, North Shore of Queens, North Shore of Manhasset, Long Island Jewish, St Johns on Queens Blvd. If anyone has some info on any of these please post or email. Thanks alot!
yes, i did find a job in the city a while ago at bellevue. but i did think that most of the hospitals were extrememly 'picky' about their hires, especially the private hospitals (!) :angryfire which doesnt make sense at all because of the shortage. if you dont have any experience and you graduated outside of the country they give you awefully hard time. (eventhough my school was a 4-year program and i passed the nclex and all)
JanaP
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hey dudette!
yes, i did find a job in the city a while ago at bellevue. but i did think that most of the hospitals were extrememly 'picky' about their hires, especially the private hospitals (!) :angryfire which doesnt make sense at all because of the shortage. if you dont have any experience and you graduated outside of the country they give you awefully hard time. (eventhough my school was a 4-year program and i passed the nclex and all)
so what about you? did you move back to ny yet?