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Saint Luke’s South in Overland Park is seeking Registered Nurse to join our progressive care unit team. Shift Details: Weekend Work Program - Days. Must work every Saturday & Sunday- work 2 shifts, get paid for 3! Job Requirements Applicable
Experience
Less than 1 year
Basic Life Support - American Heart Association or Red Cross, Registered Nurse - Various
Neighborhoods+Named Overland Park villages include LionsGate, a gated luxury community near 143rd and Nall built around the private Nicklaus Golf Club, with estate homes, clubhouse, pool, and tennis courts; Deer Creek; Nottingham; and Wilshire Farms, which mix quiet cul-de-sacs and mature trees with newer amenity-rich housing. Locals describe a clear north-to-south gradient: older, more affordable stock on the north side and newer, costlier construction as you move south. Blue Valley North High School zoning is a stated draw in editor neighborhood picks. Nearby Olathe is the usual cheaper alternative with strong schools if Overland Park prices stretch the budget.
Named Overland Park villages include LionsGate, a gated luxury community near 143rd and Nall built around the private Nicklaus Golf Club, with estate homes, clubhouse, pool, and tennis courts; Deer Creek; Nottingham; and Wilshire Farms, which mix quiet cul-de-sacs and mature trees with newer amenity-rich housing. Locals describe a clear north-to-south gradient: older, more affordable stock on the north side and newer, costlier construction as you move south.
Blue Valley North High School zoning is a stated draw in editor neighborhood picks. Nearby Olathe is the usual cheaper alternative with strong schools if Overland Park prices stretch the budget.
Getting around+U.S. News lists an average commute of about 18.93 minutes, and residents contrast Overland Park traffic with almost none compared with a major city. I-435 and US-69 are the named highways; downtown Kansas City is described as a 20–25 minute drive. Overland Park Regional Medical Center is a major local healthcare employer in a city that is also a Johnson County hub for healthcare, tech, finance, and engineering. Daily life is car-centric; public transportation is described as difficult to rely on, so most residents keep a car.
U.S. News lists an average commute of about 18.93 minutes, and residents contrast Overland Park traffic with almost none compared with a major city. I-435 and US-69 are the named highways; downtown Kansas City is described as a 20–25 minute drive.
Overland Park Regional Medical Center is a major local healthcare employer in a city that is also a Johnson County hub for healthcare, tech, finance, and engineering. Daily life is car-centric; public transportation is described as difficult to rely on, so most residents keep a car.
Outdoors+The city maintains more than 80 parks and a trail network residents use year-round. The Overland Park Arboretum and Botanical Gardens covers 300 acres along 179th Street with 1,700 plant species, themed gardens, ponds, hiking trails, prairie, the Cohen Iris Garden (more than 300 varieties in late spring), free Tuesdays, and a winter Luminary Walk. The Indian Creek Bike and Hike Trail runs 17 generally flat, dog-friendly miles through forest and creek corridor and links seven city parks. Family spots include Deanna Rose Children's Farmstead (12 acres, 250-plus animals, April through October) and Roe Park (splash pad, tennis, playground); Topgolf Overland Park adds a 240-yard outfield.
The city maintains more than 80 parks and a trail network residents use year-round. The Overland Park Arboretum and Botanical Gardens covers 300 acres along 179th Street with 1,700 plant species, themed gardens, ponds, hiking trails, prairie, the Cohen Iris Garden (more than 300 varieties in late spring), free Tuesdays, and a winter Luminary Walk.
The Indian Creek Bike and Hike Trail runs 17 generally flat, dog-friendly miles through forest and creek corridor and links seven city parks. Family spots include Deanna Rose Children's Farmstead (12 acres, 250-plus animals, April through October) and Roe Park (splash pad, tennis, playground); Topgolf Overland Park adds a 240-yard outfield.
Check the commute at your shift’s start and end, upfront housing costs, and whether moving assistance must be repaid if you leave.
Living in Overland Park
Overland Park is Johnson County’s largest city and a healthcare hub that lives like a well-funded suburb: short drives, Blue Valley and Shawnee Mission schools, and crime rates among the safest in the U.S. Overland Park Regional Medical Center is a major employer; I-435 and US-69 put downtown Kansas City about 20–25 minutes away, with an average commute under 19 minutes and little big-city traffic. Housing runs older and cheaper on the north side to newer, pricier south-side construction and gated LionsGate estates near 143rd and Nall, around a $405,000 median home value and $1,255 median rent. Weekends orbit the 300-acre Arboretum on 179th Street, the 17-mile Indian Creek Trail, Deanna Rose Farmstead, Prairiefire’s restaurants and museum, Strang Hall, Q39 barbecue, and a 90-vendor downtown farmers’ market. Tradeoffs: you need a car, summers are hot and muggy, winters run cold, snowy, and windy from November through February with tornado-season risk, and prices feel high next to Olathe or the rest of Kansas.
