What can you tell me about Florida Hospital?

BarbPick · Dec 12, 2003

I have attended a conference at Florida Hospital, and it looked like a nice place. I highly recomend Orlando Regional Healthcare, I will find a link. On campus there is the Arnold Palmer women's and children's hospital, M.D. Anderson Cancer Institute, and a big giant rest of the hospital. It used to be orange memorial hospital and had the last Diploma Nursing School in Florida close there. They have a museum from the school there, with all the student uniforms from pinaforms to the last modern day.

I really like that place, it has history. It is near "the old chuch street station" a place to take visitors when they come

http://www.orhs.org/

Barbara

ksrnstudent · Dec 13, 2003

Barbara,

Thanks for the info. Do you know what they pay new grad nurses? Their website is great and I like that they are a level 1 trauma center.

Sherri

BarbPick · Dec 14, 2003

All I know is my friend is a Clinician in the OR, and they raised her pay to make it competitive.

Orlando is a a major city, and that is it's main hospital. I am sure they would be fair.

Barbara

debx · Dec 15, 2003

I work for Florida Hospital but not at the main campus. I've been to the main campus for a PALS class and the people I met seemed happy. The hospital itself seemed very nice.

Florida Hospital is owned by the Seventh Day Adventist and is a religious based hospital. So far, they have been very good to me as an employee. Their pay and benefits are competitive. At my particular hospital, they are pretty strict about dress code. So, if you have any visible tattoos that you aren't willing to cover or have acrylic nails......forget about it.

Orlando is a nice city. The pay in Florida is pretty low compared to other states.

Good luck with your search

BarbPick · Dec 15, 2003

Just one point about pay in Florida, there is no state income tax.

monie2004 · Dec 22, 2003

Do they have any locations in Broward County?

peaches21 · Dec 26, 2003

Hi,

Over the spring I went to Florida hospital from Delaware to do an interview. They offered me like 17 and some change to work there as a new grad on a stepdown floor. The staff was real nice but I didn't take the job knowing I could make 20+ in DE which has a lower cost of living then Orlando. Maybe the pay has gone up since then. I hope that helps.

Monica RN,BSN · Dec 26, 2003

There are hospitals in Broward county, but that is Fort Lauderdale area. I am in North Central Florida and would not recommend Miami if you are relocating to Florida. Highly populated, high crime... Though the area is beautiful...

I am in Ocala, and starting pay here for a NEW GRAD is about 17-19/ hour. Rest is based on experience and areas of expertise. Gainesville is pretty nice, calmer than Miami ( Dade County) or Lauderdale ( Broward) They have Shands Teaching Hospital there. Shands pays better than Ocala Area, though it is like 30 miles north of Ocala. Shands starts at $20.00 hour

Good Luck on your job search...

Marti Ann · Jan 18, 2004

I worked at a wonderful teaching hosptial called Jackson memorial/Univ. of Miami. We had the most interesting pts. At a teaching hospital you learn and do everything most nurses don't see or do at a general hospital.

I loved it so much and learned to be a good nurse there. If in Miami , you want a great place to work, go there.

kimflygrl · Feb 4, 2004

I spoke with one of the HR recruiters about a month ago, Florida Hospital is offering 17.59 for New Grads, plus shift differential. There is no sign on bonus, but there is a referral bonus if you know someone there and if you recruit a new grad. I have visited and it is a beautiful area around the main hospital, they have a few smaller hospitals as well around the area.

When I spoke with someone it was like pulling teeth and I had to ask all the questions, not much was offered up front, maybe I didn't speak to the right person. From what I can gather the website has great descriptions of the new grad internship and resident programs (there are 2 different options for these, timing wise) and they depend on where you want to go. The dates on the website are outdated (from 2 years ago last time I checked) and they had not set dates yet as to when the new programs will start (after February's new classes), probably July and October. She also told me that if I didn't get into one of my areas of choice for the July program, that I could work at the hospital as a Nurse Tech/CNA until the next program in October (NO THANKS!).

She also told me that the loan forgiveness is through the state programs, so I'm not sure how that works out.

Hope this helps! They are good about sending brochures and answering phone calls, just have questions ready and hopefully you'll get the right person.

AccelBSN04 · Mar 4, 2004

To add to the last post, the most recent quote (about a month ago) I got from a recruiter at FH for a new grad is $18.10. ORHS pays $17.60. IMO, shift diffs are better at ORHS. No sign on's anywhere. I do know that if you want to do the critical care orientation at FH, you owe them 18 more months of work. They consider the "$20,000+" they spend on you to train you to be a critical care nurse like a sign-on bonus I guess. If you leave before that, you owe them money. I think that's a bunch of malarky and I won't work there for that reason when I graduate. But ORHS may do the same thing; I don't know. You have to probe quite a bit to get that info from the recruiter. They know that policy is a deterrent, so they try not to advertise it.