8jimi8
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My goal is to be a flight nurse. Maybe this is a thread for flightweb, hopefully you all wont mind giving me advice.
I consider the helicopter to be an extension of the ER. I know it does CCT also...
Ok. So I haven't started my new job in the MICU. (that's a separate non-issue)
My job is held over for me, but I have another offer now.
A competing system has offered me a position in a busy ER.
pros on the MICU:
1. I will be based in MICU, and float through SICU, CCU and Clinical Decision Unit (a 23 hour unit where you either go to ICU or go down to the stepdown / tele unit)
2. ICU skill set - nuff said
3. a level 4 trauma designated hospital, also a heart transplant hospital, designated stroke center and cardiac care designation (i forget what its called)
4. The staff during my interview told me that they would "train me to be a flight nurse."
5. They do have a helicopter pad.
6. 2-3 patient load (supposedly if you get 3 patients you have "help"
7. This hospital has won the "medicare ACE Demonstration Center designation for cardiac and ortho." (that means we will get lots of business)
8. This hospital is owned by a publicly traded company and this job is considered "more recession proof" than competitors.
9. The unit manager is freaking A W E S O M E.
10. Many of the nurses there have been there 20+ years (that tells me that they are happy)
11. My manager is impressed by my learning goals (that tells me she is receptive to working with my classes when they start).
12. This will help me study for CC P, (lol after i get the red patch)
Cons:
1. Paygrade
2. Even though the hospital has a trauma designation, in the interview they told me that they do not get traumas.
3. 100 year old building (some renovations are coming, but it looks like a hospital out of freddy kreuger's nightmares.)
ER job
Pros:
1. A very very busy ER that takes overflow from the nearby level 1 trauma hospital
2. They are getting their own helicopter
3. Paygrade
4. Emergency care is really what I am "most interested in"
5. New building
6. Its ER... you get a mixed freaking bag of what you get!
7. Being in the ER will most likely help me "study" for my upcoming Paramedic course.
Cons:
1. Steeper learning curve when I eventually try to fly.
2. Not a designated trauma center
3. High turnover
4. I have no idea of the financial stability of this hospital system, or whether the spiraling recession will affect my job.
I consider the helicopter to be an extension of the ER. I know it does CCT also...
Ok. So I haven't started my new job in the MICU. (that's a separate non-issue)
My job is held over for me, but I have another offer now.
A competing system has offered me a position in a busy ER.
pros on the MICU:
1. I will be based in MICU, and float through SICU, CCU and Clinical Decision Unit (a 23 hour unit where you either go to ICU or go down to the stepdown / tele unit)
2. ICU skill set - nuff said
3. a level 4 trauma designated hospital, also a heart transplant hospital, designated stroke center and cardiac care designation (i forget what its called)
4. The staff during my interview told me that they would "train me to be a flight nurse."
5. They do have a helicopter pad.
6. 2-3 patient load (supposedly if you get 3 patients you have "help"
7. This hospital has won the "medicare ACE Demonstration Center designation for cardiac and ortho." (that means we will get lots of business)
8. This hospital is owned by a publicly traded company and this job is considered "more recession proof" than competitors.
9. The unit manager is freaking A W E S O M E.
10. Many of the nurses there have been there 20+ years (that tells me that they are happy)
11. My manager is impressed by my learning goals (that tells me she is receptive to working with my classes when they start).
12. This will help me study for CC P, (lol after i get the red patch)
Cons:
1. Paygrade
2. Even though the hospital has a trauma designation, in the interview they told me that they do not get traumas.
3. 100 year old building (some renovations are coming, but it looks like a hospital out of freddy kreuger's nightmares.)
ER job
Pros:
1. A very very busy ER that takes overflow from the nearby level 1 trauma hospital
2. They are getting their own helicopter
3. Paygrade
4. Emergency care is really what I am "most interested in"
5. New building
6. Its ER... you get a mixed freaking bag of what you get!
7. Being in the ER will most likely help me "study" for my upcoming Paramedic course.
Cons:
1. Steeper learning curve when I eventually try to fly.
2. Not a designated trauma center
3. High turnover
4. I have no idea of the financial stability of this hospital system, or whether the spiraling recession will affect my job.