travel nursing in NYC - psych? (nurse to patient ratio?)

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Specializes in psychiatry.

I'm wondering if any nurses here work on a psych unit in Manhattan, Queens, Bronx, Brooklyn, or Staten Island. What are your nurse to pt ratios and do you work on an acute psych unit, geriatric psych, long term care? How many patients are on the unit when your unit is at full census and how many health care aides work with you on the day, evening, and night shifts? How many nurses work on the day, evening, and night shifts?

Also, if you work on a psych unit in NYC, where do you work and how do you like it? How are the nurses treated by the doctors and other nurses? Do staff and management generally welcome travel nurses on these units or do travel nurses generally get overloaded with the "heavier" patients? How is your turnover of nursing staff, etc?

I'm looking to relocate to NYC but interested in trying travel nursing there first.

Thanks

*also posted in the new york forum*

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Melissa, hi! I just found your mail, I didn't know I have an inbox in here :) Regarding your questions:

I don't really know anything about mortgages, but probably we'll get green card, this way, I guess, we can take a mortgage. About OHIP-I just did an address change there, you download a pdf where you have to mark for how long are you going away. If you go permanently-you lose your OHIP, there is an option to keep it if you intend to work in US for a short period of time only. Hope, that helps somehow...

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Melissa, here is more info:

The 6 months requirement is for tourists and for Canadian residents who

don't have a working visa. If you are authorized to work and live in the

states, you can stay here as long as the visa is valid. One thing to

note is that it is going to be hard to get a mortgage in the states

because Canadians don't have US credit history and the Canadian credit

history is irrelevant.

Becoming US resident strips you from Canadian health benefit as far as I

know, but you can get the health care back once you become Canadian

resident again.

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