Vanderbilt Nurse Residency Winter 2018

Nurses Job Hunt

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Hello!

I am graduating in December and I have the summer off so I've begun looking at potential places that I'd like to work.

I'm thinking I'd like to do a nurse residency because I want to work in a pediatric Critical Care setting (PICU or Peds ER) and I feel like having that whole year with someone helping me and that I can ask questions without feeling like an annoying dummy.

Anyways, I was wondering if anyone here was looking at Vanderbilt's Nurse Residency for February 2018? I'm not from Nashville, but I'm also not too far away as I'm from North Alabama. I'd appreciate any tips about the residency or about Nashville!

Thanks

I'm still waiting on 3 of my references to come in! Hoping they come in soon so I can get this application out of the way! Where else are you guys applying?

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I'm applying to tons of hospitals in Alabama. One emailed me to ask me if I'd like to interview for ER or MICU as I expressed an interest in those since they don't have a PICU. I've heard that the hospital I currently work at pays the worst in Alabama, so I don't foresee an internal application happening unless I just don't get a job elsewhere by the time I can apply at my hospital (earliest would be November because that's when I started working and you can't do internal applications for at least a year.)

It took my references a while to receive an email, but when they did it was all on the same day.

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I just finished and submitted my application! I am from Knoxville, TN and go to TTU (graduating in December, yay). I have done clinical at Vandy before and I love it there! I'm applying for the Women's Health track (hopefully L&D)!

What's the inside of like!? I've only seen it from the outside (TWICE! lol). What clinical did you have there? One of our L&D nurses here went to a school in Nashville that did L&D clinicals at Vandy and she LOVED IT. She moved because of her husband working in this area, but she still loves L&D. She almost made me not hate L&D clinicals as I was with her for a couple of days for clinical (we usually rotate nurses).

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Specializes in Labor and Delivery, Postpartum, Newborn Nursery.

I'm applying to Duke (whenever they have their applications open) as I currently work there in their PNA program! I LOVE IT! Also applying to some Florida hospitals as it has always been a dream of mine to live at the beach! Hehe!

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Specializes in Labor and Delivery, Postpartum, Newborn Nursery.

It is honestly one of the NICEST hospitals I have ever seen! I'd say nicer than Duke even from the inside! I did my peds clinicals there at Children's and I also did some medsurg on the cardiac stepdown floor! Super wonderful hospital! L&D is my dream job! I'm in love with it! How lucky she got to experience Vandy's L&D floor!

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jessica1317 how did you like the cardiac stepdown floor? I am interested in cardiac but I can't decide if I want to apply for the acute cardiac track or critical care CVICU. I like the ICU but there will be more openings for acute cardiac since there are more units. Thanks for the info on Vanderbilt!!

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Specializes in Labor and Delivery, Postpartum, Newborn Nursery.

It was a wonderful floor! Definitely my favorite of all the med-surg I did! The nurses were so nice and willing to teach (I had a different one each week for three weeks, and each was equally helpful). I had patients (and my classmates had patients) with L-VADs, heart transplants, patients scheduled for cardioversions, some trauma patients acutally (one had a gunshot to the leg, so not entirely a cardiac patient) lots of post-op patients (usually they were from CVICU, not directly from surgery but some were). A wide variety. A few patients on the floor were overflow from other floors, but it was very few. If I wasn't so set on L&D this floor would be my choice! It was so great!

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That's awesome! Being around nurses that are willing to teach is so important. I worked as a tech on a cardiac surgery step-down in MD and they had similar patients with VADs, post op, transplant, etc. Minus the gunshots, Baltimore needs a whole unit designated for that lol. Do you know anything about the CVICU? That's awesome you love L&D. It's definitely not for me!

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Specializes in Labor and Delivery, Postpartum, Newborn Nursery.

I don't know about 's CVICU unfortunately, but I have done a clinical day plus a shadow day in the CVICU in Cookeville, where I go to school. There, the nurse-patient ratio was 1:1 and it was a really really nice environment! I want to say Vandy has the same ratio, but I cannot be sure. Although I am sure it is a top-notch CVICU!

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Cool! I know the CSICU here is known for not having the best "culture". Thank you so much for answering my questions! It's been tricky deciding which track to apply for!

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I am applying for Duke and the Florida Hospital system as well! I saw that the Duke application opens sometime in october, do you know when the Florida ones open up? That's awesome that you got into their PNA program. I am currently doing a paid internship as well, the SNAP Program at Novant Health in Charlotte, NC. I'm hoping that looks well on my application! I am going to TN at the end of this month to check out the area and the hospital, I've heard both are beautiful!

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I'm also planning on applying and want to follow this post!

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