Nursing Internship in Connecticut

I am graduating in December 2015 and planning on moving to Connecticut after graduation. I want to land a nursing internship this summer at a hospital in Connecticut. Being out of state, I am unfamiliar with the hospitals in this area. I have done some research but I was wondering if anybody had some specific advice from prior experience or just from living in the Connecticut/Massachusetts area. I am really looking into Hartford Hospital. I still have not seen applications available for a lot of summer 2015 programs. When should I apply? How long does it take to hear back? How much does completing an internship really help me when it comes to landing a job there when I graduate? How has the job field been for new grads in Connecticut? Any advice or knowledge at all would be helpful. Thank you!
Hello there!I lived in CT for 26 years. I just moved here to Florida this May and I miss CT already. CT is a very quaint state to live in; some rural lifestyle and some city lifestyle. The hospitals are great. I worked at Griffin Hospital on a telemetry floor and it is the nicest hospital i have worked at! I graduated in May 2013 and this was the first hospital i worked at. Griffin is a learning hospital; they embrace all of the newly hired nurses. The management team is superb on telemetry. It is the most structured & organized hospital I have worked at when comparing it to the other 2 I worked at. Griffin will always be my home & i consider it family :0) Other than that I heard that Waterbury Hospital has great pay for nurses and they are Union. St. Raphael's merged with Yale about 2 years ago. Yale is nice too and im sure excellent compensation.I didn't do an internship but i did work as a patient care technician which exposed me to a lot of nursing.I know for a fact that Griffin hires new nurses. Good luck!

"When I'm done with school, I want to fulfill my lifelong dream and move to Connecticut!"Said no one everI say this tongue-in-cheek as I spent the first 26.5 years of my 28 years of existence in CT. All seriousness though, what makes you want to move to CT? If you're married or engaged and your sig-other got a job there I can see why, but I can think of a million other places I'd move first, especially with a great degree like nursing. But if you insist- I'd say try to get a job at Stamford hospital. It's close to NYC and is a very underrated city. Harftord is a dump. The hospitals are great (St. Francis, HH) but the city itself is a crime-ridden cesspool with no night lift whatsoever. Good luck. Hope I didn't scare you too much.

Thanks so much! That is all very helpful. I do have a significant other who works in CT and I'm from the south and always knew I wanted to leave it at some point. Who knows how long we will stay in CT but it's looking like the place I'll be starting my career and I'm excited! I find New England pretty charming and definitely different from where I grew up which is my goal at the moment. I will definitely look into these hospitals for internships and jobs. Thanks!