Why are others nurses rude to agency nurses

Hey im an agency nurse over in Scotland and i experience the same things over here. I think a lot of the time the staff dont like it as they have all responsibility (as a lot of the time agency cant do the drugs etc) plus were often getting paid substantially more and they know it. I can see their reasoning to not liking us but at the end of the day were there to help the ward out and make some spare cash. If they had any sense they'd be doing agency shifts too. xx

I took a 2-10:30 pm LTC assignement trough an agency yesterday. My concern is, the charge nurse came at 5pm to give me notice of an upcoming admission. I was appalled. She said it is done all the time for agency nurses whether it is first time or not. At the hospital that I work we do not let agency nurses do an admission. So, I did take the admission at 6pm, but left the facility at 3 am because of the paperwork and documentation. I finished my 9pm meds pass at 12am. I would like to know if this is the norm out there for agency nurses to do?

I am so sorry that you were unfairly taken advantaged of that way. At my hospital, as a rule of thumb: No float RNs or registry RNs are to take admissions PERIOD! Just because they do NOT know the everyday routine of our unit & the same courtesy applies when we float to their units. Bottom line: it saves all of our colleagues a lot of grief and possible errors in the long run (legality-wise).

Next time they try and pull a fast one on you like that, 1st: call your agency & speak to your RN recruiter & explain your situation: 2nd - Call & talk with the unit Nursing Manager & if it doesn't get resolved that way then notify the Chief of Nursing. My experience has been it usually gets resolved when you put your foot down, speak up & defend yourself right away by confronting the RN herself, whether it be the Charge RN or regular staff RN. At least this way they'll know their BS won't work with you & then they'll just simply find some other RN who will take their abuse.

From what you say, it seems as if they just want to dump on the registry RN because you're paid more than them (aka: Regualr staff RN). To put it in a better term: That's a sure excuse for what we call, "Laziness!"

Hope that helps! Good luck!