Syracuse City ED RN Jobs?

[purdue1014]

Hi Guys,

I am a RN, BSN at an inner city academic adult Level 1 trauma center in the midwest. I just found out that I will be moving to Syracuse with my fiance for her to start her residency program at Upstate in July.

Are there any locals here? How do the various ED's stack up in the area? What about pay?

Come July I will have 20 months at my current ED as a nurse and 3 years tech experience in the same place. I will also have 6 years inner city EMS experience. I will get my CEN before July, too.

I also have some interest in getting some peds experience as well.

I appreciate any information you guys have:)

[arnwest]

I used to work at Upstate in one of the ICUs. They're a level-I trauma and burn center, so it's definitely the best hospital in the area for trauma (in fact, they're the only trauma center between Albany and Rochester, besides level-IIs in Utica and Binghamton, I believe). The health department mandates that RNs in NY have at least a year of experience before working in the ED, so you meet that requirement. I'm sure they'd hire you. Upstate is a state hospital, so as an RN there you'd be an employee of the state, which comes with competitive pay (at least for the area, which isn't saying much), union representation, and benefits/pension. The night shift differential is a percentage, not flat, so that's pretty legit. You should be warned about the scheduling though; full-time is 80 hours, which means you're working a mix of 8s and 12s. And everything is seniority-based. They are public, so you'll deal with a lot of underserved patients, both from the inner city and the outlying areas. From what I remember, though, the staffing is pretty good and, at least in the ICUs, they had good ratios. Upstate also has a designated pediatric ED, although I'm not sure if staff cross-train or float between the two. Overall a good place, definitely gave me a solid foundation as a new grad.

There's also St. Joseph's on the north side, which is big on cardiac and psych. They just opened a new ED a few years ago. It's the only Magnet hospital in the area.

Then there's Crouse, which just got bought out by another healthcare system. Their ED seems to have the best reputation amongst EMS. They're big on stroke, PCI and L&D with the area's only level-IV NICU.

[purdue1014]

Thank you for the information! I do appreciate it...