Trauma Centers- East Coast

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I'm hoping to relocate to the East Coast within the next year and am open to location. My biggest hope is to work in a level one trauma center (and live near water) and I know minimal about hospitals out east and have done some internet search but would love to hear from others' experiences. Thanks.

I am sure you mean 90,000... not 9,000.....;).

Congratulations! You will be busy!!!

According to the recruiter that is the number shock trauma sees... not the whole hospital. If that were the case you would probably right. I have the job and am now facing reality (relocating).... scary :/

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I am sure you mean 90,000... not 9,000.....;).

Congratulations! You will be busy!!![/quote

And thank you :p

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Specializes in Critical Care, ED, Cath lab, CTPAC,Trauma.
According to the recruiter that is the number shock trauma sees... not the whole hospital. If that were the case you would probably right. I have the job and am now facing reality (relocating).... scary :/
Well....seeing 9,000 patients a year isn't very many patients.

You are going to feel overwhelmed at first....don't fret....we have all been there!!

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Well....seeing 9,000 patients a year isn't very many patients.

You are going to feel overwhelmed at first....don't fret....we have all been there!!

The biggest hospital I've worked in is 440 beds, so this should be interesting lol. It's never fun starting a new job, but once that phase is over it gets better. :)

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Specializes in ER/Trauma.

Thats about 24 patients per day, for a single highly specialized trauma unit. The ICU at my local hospital is a generalized ICU with only 12 beds, and only gets 1-3 admits a day. I 'm sure one massively critical patient per hour is more than enough!

Congratulations!! How many beds is the NeuroTrauma unit? Nurse:patient ratio?

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Specializes in ICU.

goodluck to you in neuro trauma icu. Heads all day will be stressful due to Neuro Docs D/C their sedation. You can guess why.

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Specializes in ICU.
Well....seeing 9,000 patients a year isn't very many patients.

You are going to feel overwhelmed at first....don't fret....we have all been there!!

I am positive it was 9,000 which is probably just a rough over estimate. 90,000 would be impossible trust me I am a trauma ICU nurse.

9,000 shock traumas is more than enough. Its actually tooo many for one place. Since the whole hospital is a trauma center I guess its built to handle that.

Where I am at which is a Level 1 trauma center we do over 4500 traumas.

According to the recruiter that is the number shock trauma sees... not the whole hospital. If that were the case you would probably right. I have the job and am now facing reality (relocating).... scary :/

Shock traumas are not always on the brink of death.

9,000 shock traumas is a ridiculous amount of shock traumas by ground and air. Trauma season is over so things will calm down. Our census is high right now. We are full and need more beds SMH...

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Specializes in psych/dementia.

I don't think trauma season is ever over in Baltimore.

Congrats OP! I would LOVE to work at Shock Trauma once I'm a nurse with some experience!

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Thats about 24 patients per day, for a single highly specialized trauma unit. The ICU at my local hospital is a generalized ICU with only 12 beds, and only gets 1-3 admits a day. I 'm sure one massively critical patient per hour is more than enough!

Congratulations!! How many beds is the NeuroTrauma unit? Nurse:patient ratio?

Thank you! They're expanding to 14 and the whole critical care tower has expanded. It's typical ICU patient ratio.

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goodluck to you in neuro trauma icu. Heads all day will be stressful due to Neuro Docs D/C their sedation. You can guess why.

Thank you so much. I look forward to the many learning experiences. I'm pretty familiar with Neuro and Trauma in the ICU so I can guess why ;)

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Specializes in ICU.

Even with trauma season officially over, things are still pretty high volume here in memphis. Compared to this time last year.

I maintain my sanity by working on other units besides trauma.

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I am positive it was 9,000 which is probably just a rough over estimate. 90,000 would be impossible trust me I am a trauma ICU nurse.

9,000 shock traumas is more than enough. Its actually tooo many for one place. Since the whole hospital is a trauma center I guess its built to handle that.

Where I am at which is a Level 1 trauma center we do over 4500 traumas.

Shock traumas are not always on the brink of death.

9,000 shock traumas is a ridiculous amount of shock traumas by ground and air. Trauma season is over so things will calm down. Our census is high right now. We are full and need more beds SMH...

I concur :)

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