What would be the estimated starting salary in Flordia?

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Hello My name is Phil and I am currently a nursing student in Chicago Illinois. Basically the purpose of this post was to inquire about starting salary for a male nurse that has a BSN in Flordia. The reason I am curious is because the winter's in Chicago are far to annoying and I was thinking of moving to Flordia to pursue my career. Thank You for your time :uhoh3:

anyone work at mount sinai? how much do they pay for newly licensed RN with no experience? tnx in advance. :)

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Just curious, for those who work @ SMH (which I believe is Sarasota Memorial), what is the pay like for new grads? I am most likely moving down the end of this year to be with my mother and grandmother (coming from Delaware). I am very familiar with Englewood, Port Charlotte, Venice, Sarasota, etc, but I know nothing about the hospitals. I was trying to compare SMH to Fawcett and the other hospital in Port Charlotte (I think it's St. Joe's????) Any advice would be great. Up here ratios during days are 5-6:1 and night is 10-12:1, depending where you work. I have heard the PCT down there can do way more than ours up here can. ANY ADVICE AT ALL would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks!

Jami

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Just curious, for those who work @ SMH (which I believe is Sarasota Memorial), what is the pay like for new grads? I am most likely moving down the end of this year to be with my mother and grandmother (coming from Delaware). I am very familiar with Englewood, Port Charlotte, Venice, Sarasota, etc, but I know nothing about the hospitals. I was trying to compare SMH to Fawcett and the other hospital in Port Charlotte (I think it's St. Joe's????) Any advice would be great. Up here ratios during days are 5-6:1 and night is 10-12:1, depending where you work. I have heard the PCT down there can do way more than ours up here can. ANY ADVICE AT ALL would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks!

Jami

From what I hear SMH is probably your best bet. Fawcett and Peace River are kinda crappy and any of these don't really pay well for the cost of living in these areas.

Sarasota is ridiculously high to live, better in North Port-Port Charlotte area. My parents live there and they've been to all these hospitals as patients. They're not really impressed by any of them. I

Don't know about ratios, guess it depends where you want to work. Medsurg, ICU, ED...

There's no standard for ratios here, you get what you get and most of the time during season it's pretty crazy.

Pay is absolutely not reasonable or competitive.

Hope this helps

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Just curious, for those who work @ SMH (which I believe is Sarasota Memorial), what is the pay like for new grads? I am most likely moving down the end of this year to be with my mother and grandmother (coming from Delaware). I am very familiar with Englewood, Port Charlotte, Venice, Sarasota, etc, but I know nothing about the hospitals. I was trying to compare SMH to Fawcett and the other hospital in Port Charlotte (I think it's St. Joe's????) Any advice would be great. Up here ratios during days are 5-6:1 and night is 10-12:1, depending where you work. I have heard the PCT down there can do way more than ours up here can. ANY ADVICE AT ALL would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks!

Jami

I'm a student so I don't know a whole whole lot but we've done clinicals in just about every Lee area hospital: Peace River, Cape Coral, Health Park, Ruth Cooper, Southwest Regional, and Lee Memorial. Like Elizzy, I've heard that Fawcett sucks (from a very experienced, nice nurse who worked there & has worked lots of places to compare it to). Of course it would be better to get scoop from people who really work at these places, but here's my dirt for whatever little it's worth:

I wasn't super impressed with Peace River (I think formerly called St. Joe's before a recent name change/buy out)... though I was just on one med surg unit. I guess it was ok, physically it could use a facelift, but I'd bet SMH would be better. At Peach River, I think the nurses in the med surg unit I was on had about 6 patients usually (days). But everyone seemed miserable and I know my clinical instructor had a really bad experience on one of the other floors. FWIW...

I have a friend who lives close to Sarasota, I think she said they offered her somewhere in the $19's as a base pay as a new grad, which is pretty standard for central and southwest Florida from what I'm hearing from everyone. SMH is also a magnet hospital if that means anything to you. I think they got some good ratings on healthgrades.com too, again if it means anything to you.

As students, we had a good experience at Southwest Regional- I forget all the different unit names, but the unit with the kidney transplants, the ICU/CCU, and the neuro unit, seemed good to us, good tone, etc. Either mostly happy nurses or good fakers. :)

At Lee Memorial, most of us generally disliked 4west (sorry if anyone from there happens to read this... not *every* nurse... but overall negative tone and experience I'd say, the only unit I would say I really didn't like); have heard generally good about 6N (oncology), 3, & ER there.

At Health Park, I heard mixed about L&D, mostly good about NICU, mixed about peds, no word about others. Good buzz about Cape Coral L&D.

About PCT ... what kind of duties were you wondering about? It does vary a little bit from place to place, like one place they might do blood sugars, others the nurses do it, etc.

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Hello My name is Phil and I am currently a nursing student in Chicago Illinois. Basically the purpose of this post was to inquire about starting salary for a male nurse that has a BSN in Flordia. The reason I am curious is because the winter's in Chicago are far to annoying and I was thinking of moving to Flordia to pursue my career. Thank You for your time :uhoh3:

You can go to http://www.salary.com. Choose the state you're planing on working, type in your career, and choose from a list, and pick the free salary chart.

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Grew up in West Palm Beach - thinking of returning as a new graduate nurse - anyone have new graduate starting salary information on St. Mary's/ Good Samaritan hospitals - Tenet Healthcare systems? Also working conditions - I have heard mixed reviews about Tenet. Thanks!

Steu, I PM'ed you regarding St. Mary's - good luck!!!

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Don't know where you're looking, but South Florida (Palm Beach County, Broward County) pays $19 - $20/hr and some do NOT pay diff for a BSN. Cost of living has skyrocketed and the median is over $400 for a single family home. Benefits of Florida - the weather, the weather, the weather. That line gets old after a while.....

This weather never gets old for a pennsylvanian girl!! I live in Northeast Florida and I love every sunny morning I wake up to!!

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i noticed that you said male nurse. are the age-old rumors true that male nurses make more than females? :angryfire

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Consider San Francisco. We just got 2 nurses from Florida. New grads start at over 70K.

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i noticed that you said male nurse. are the age-old rumors true that male nurses make more than females? :angryfire

no ones ever discussed the salaries between male and female nurses. generally male nurses don't last long on floors, they usually end up in administration or further nursing careers...

i believe, thought, that there's no difference. also no diff for bsn...

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Do the males that move to admin get paid more, or just move to a different job and keep somewhat the same $?

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I am in Jacksonville, Florida currently. There is a slight difference in pay between BSN and ADN nurses. The pay difference can be as little as .50 to $2.00. It just depends on the area and the hospital's policies.

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