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Hi everyone,

I am thinking about moving to either Houston or Dallas. I would like to work for either of the two major children's hospitals in those cities. I was wondering if anyone could tell me the starting salaries for nurses at those two hospitals for a new nurse. I would am wanting to work in NICU or PICU. I currently live in Georgia , so I was wondering how the cost of living is as well.Any help that you can give me would be great. Thanks for your help!

Pinky

I am a nurse at Texas Childrens Hospital. I have over 18 years exp and make over 100k a year there. They start brand new nurses with no exp at a bit over 23. plus change per hour. I work with a couple of nurses that have about 4 years exp making abit over 55k a year. The cost of living in Houston isamong some of the lowest in the country. Dallas is way higher. You can buy a 4 bedroom 2 1/2 bath 2 car garage 2200+ sq foot houme for under 150k. That is on Katy, which is a suburb west of Houston that also has some of the best schools in the state. The traffic here is actually not really that bad. I have every thing I need on the west side for shopping and entertainment. I litterally have with 10 miles of me 3 major shopping malls 5 or 6 multiplex theaters, within 5 blocks of my house I have 3 grocery stores, with in 5 miles I have 2 super walmarts and sams as well as gas stations everywhere. (2.40/GAL) When I gotoworkin the medical center which is 32 miles away it takes me 35minutes in the morning and coming home takes me about 45 minutes. Not really that bad of a commute.

Dallas on the other hand SUCKS for traffic. I have sat not moving there for over an hour because of an accident, They have a serious lack of freeways that you can by pass areas unlike houston, where you are never very far from as freeway. The weather also sucks in dallas. Hot in the summer and snows in the winter with ice storms every once in a while. In Houston it is hot in the summer and mild in the winter.

Chose Houston

Dave

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Greetings,

I am interested in a new graduate internship in a ER/CCU. What hospitals would you recommend for a good experience and outstanding preceptors?

One more thing, what would I need to do to attain a position as a cardiac cath nurse?

thanks kindly

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Greetings,

I am interested in a new graduate internship in a ER/CCU. What hospitals would you recommend for a good experience and outstanding preceptors?

One more thing, what would I need to do to attain a position as a cardiac cath nurse?

thanks kindly

The best intership around PARKLAND

Here are a few links for you

http://www.parklandcareers.com/content.asp?c=nurcricarres

http://www.parklandcareers.com/content.asp?c=cricarandtra

http://www.parklandcareers.com/content.asp?c=edu

The pay is not the highest, but the internships are top notch.

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The best intership around PARKLAND

Here are a few links for you

http://www.parklandcareers.com/content.asp?c=nurcricarres

http://www.parklandcareers.com/content.asp?c=cricarandtra

http://www.parklandcareers.com/content.asp?c=edu

The pay is not the highest, but the internships are top notch.

true, but perhaps even a better place to start as a new grad would be next door at Zale Lipshy. You go thru the parkland internships thru the different units (which is definitely a wonderful experience) but would work at Zale instead. And in general the acuity is much less because they do not have an ER, so they are a referral hospital. So you get the best of both worlds. And if I understand (as told to me when I worked at Zale by many folks, although this may not be the reality) after 3 yrs CCU experience, Parkland hires in mid $30 range. But yeah, you can't ask for a much better experience/internship in CCU than at Parkland.

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