Up to $25,000 Sign on Bonus for qualified Registered Nurses
The role and schedule
On call
On-call rotation
The workplace
Arnot Health
Hospital
You are weighing Arnot Health in Elmira — a not-for-profit system built around Arnot Ogden Medical Center, a roughly 256-bed tertiary hospital on Roe Avenue with primary stroke certification plus cardiac, cancer, maternity, emergency, and surgical services. Charting runs on…
Registered Nurse position at Arnot Health in Endoscopy department. Full-time with on-call coverage. Unit staffed Monday-Friday with 10 or
12 hour shift options ranging from 6:30am-7:30pm. RN assumes responsibility and accountability for a group of patients, providing care via therapeutic use of self, nursing process, and collaboration with health care team members. Reports to assigned Unit Director.
Neighborhoods+Local recommendations consistently steer newcomers toward West Elmira, Pine City, and Elmira Heights for quiet, residential streets with well-kept homes. Within the city proper, neighborhoods situated west of Hoffman Street and along the Maple Avenue corridor are generally viewed as the most desirable urban pockets. Conversely, local residents frequently advise caution regarding the Southside and specific housing complexes like Hawthorne Court, noting distinct variations in property conditions between the city's western edges and older eastern pockets.
Local recommendations consistently steer newcomers toward West Elmira, Pine City, and Elmira Heights for quiet, residential streets with well-kept homes. Within the city proper, neighborhoods situated west of Hoffman Street and along the Maple Avenue corridor are generally viewed as the most desirable urban pockets.
Conversely, local residents frequently advise caution regarding the Southside and specific housing complexes like Hawthorne Court, noting distinct variations in property conditions between the city's western edges and older eastern pockets.
Getting around+Elmira offers a compact road network where driving is the primary means of transportation, with typical commutes averaging around fifteen minutes. Interstate 86 skirts the northern edge of the city, facilitating quick east-west regional trips to nearby communities like Corning and Horseheads as well as swift access to Arnot Health. Surface streets and multiple Chemung River bridges ensure straightforward cross-town connections with minimal traffic congestion during shift changes.
Elmira offers a compact road network where driving is the primary means of transportation, with typical commutes averaging around fifteen minutes. Interstate 86 skirts the northern edge of the city, facilitating quick east-west regional trips to nearby communities like Corning and Horseheads as well as swift access to Arnot Health.
Surface streets and multiple Chemung River bridges ensure straightforward cross-town connections with minimal traffic congestion during shift changes.
Outdoors+Outdoor recreation revolves around the Chemung River, which runs straight through town and provides waters for kayaking, canoeing, and shoreline walking. Eldridge Park is a historic community hub equipped with scenic pathways, a lake, and a restored carousel, while Brand Park offers open green space near the water for picnics and seasonal gatherings. On the city's outskirts, the Tanglewood Nature Center offers extensive wooded hiking trails with sweeping panoramic views of the Chemung Valley.
Outdoor recreation revolves around the Chemung River, which runs straight through town and provides waters for kayaking, canoeing, and shoreline walking. Eldridge Park is a historic community hub equipped with scenic pathways, a lake, and a restored carousel, while Brand Park offers open green space near the water for picnics and seasonal gatherings.
On the city's outskirts, the Tanglewood Nature Center offers extensive wooded hiking trails with sweeping panoramic views of the Chemung Valley.
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 Elmira
Located in New York's Southern Tier along the winding Chemung River, Elmira blends storied regional heritage with convenient access to the Finger Lakes. Major healthcare and educational anchors like Arnot Health, LECOM, and Elmira College shape the local employment landscape, offering incoming nurses a community where daily commutes average roughly fifteen minutes via Interstate 86 and uncrowded city thoroughfares. When away from the hospital, residents can walk through literary history at the Mark Twain Study, catch touring productions at the Clemens Center, or paddle the river and hike the forested ridgelines at Tanglewood Nature Center. Practical tradeoffs exist: the city exhibits visible economic contrasts, leading many medical professionals to focus their housing search in established areas like West Elmira, Elmira Heights, or west of Hoffman Street rather than the Southside. For clinicians looking for short travel times, low congestion, and an unhurried upstate pace, Elmira provides a functional and accessible home base.
