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Hi I am also looking into moving to Hawaii, I have one year of experience in critical care at a large medical center in baltimore. Are there any large teaching hospitals or level one trauma centers. i'm very open to where i'm living i'm mostly interested in finding a hospital that i can be happy at. any suggestions?
MissPA, I think the only hospital that fits that bill on any of the islands is Queen's Medical Center. It seems that any accident victim is taken to Queen's. I'm not sure if it's a teaching hospital but it should be I would think. But if you only have one year of experience (is that one year total or just one year in CC?) you may be out of luck.
Well, I didn't read all the posts but I read enough. I hope the OP found what they were looking for. Now it seems people have kept this thread alive because they want info on nursing jobs. To say that no nurses post on this forum is incorrect. As a professional R.N.,B.S.N with 20 years of experience I am obligated to my fellow R.N.s to help them with info when they post for advise on this forum. I have also encountered many other professionals like me on this forum.
For the record. Each island spits out x amounts of graduates from every community college and university in the state every year. The R.N. jobs are extremely competitive. We make $20 less an hour then our unionized mainland counterparts (the previous post was correct about 'union' wage in Hawaii), and all the jobs are not unionized. I have worked with travel nurses from England, South Korea and France, frankly I have no idea why they were shipped in. Advise to R.N.s actively seeking positions in Hawaii, beef up the resume and include ACLS along with anything else you can get your hands on (make sure you know how to do a good resume with cover letter etc...) Don't snub your nose at a position that does not appeal to you. Get your foot in the door and the rest depends on you, along with a little bit of luck. I got my bachelors right off. I advocate associate R.N.s to get your B.S.N. or if you are going into nursing for an R.N. degree do the bachleors, it opened up doors that would not have been availible to me otherwise.
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I know many from the mainland ask if they moved here first would their chances at a job improve? No one knows that answer, I've seen it work both ways. FTR, post #49 hits it out of the ball park.
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The quote doesn't state what type of nursing they were/are in or what type of facility it was (hospital/clinic etc..) or locaton (Florida is a large state). Per Hawaii "union" rules of hourly starting wage for R.N.s in Hawaii, wage is lower then many of the other states.
I have applied to Queens ICU float pool. I'm an RN w/ 2 years ICU experience, and am making my yearly trip from Dallas to Honolulu to visit family in June. This year I am hoping to not return home Is it likely to be hired from out of state? Are you familiar with Queens? Working environment etc.??
ohfine1985 wrote he won't be replying because he's was getting ready to hele.
He wrote and apologized to all on this thread that he could not spend anymore time on this forum d/t getting everything packed/together.
He had very good advice.
I don't know too much about Queens other then the fact it's your typical click situation depending on floor, unit, skill, level, favorites, you know what I'm talking about.
I had my back surgery done at Queens and I wasn't impressed to say the least. The only people who would talk to me were the DON and the docs.
Perhaps they are more together in the ICU. You got good skills and being persistent when you get here is key.
Let's face it; I think we've all worked in 1 unit that ran cohesively and didn't have the cliques; a real together team. Hopefully for you this could happen.
This is what I heard, there's vacancies at most hospitals, the problem is, the hospitals would rather run short, than hire, due to budget constraints.
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Is it likely to be hired from out of state? Are you familiar with Queens? Working environment etc.?? 
