Signed a contract for ICU, being put on IMC unit

[Nur-C]

Hello,

I have signed a 13 week contract to work ICU at a Level I trauma Center. I am supposed to start next week and I just received the roster, which has me assigned to an IMC floor. I am concerned as I do not want to lose my ICU skills and be staffed on a unit I did not sign a contract to work on. I have no problem floating there when needed but I believe I should be stationed in an ICU if that's the contract I signed, correct? So far the response I have gotten back states that they were told that the IMC is a critical care unit with a 1:2-3 patient ratio. This is still not ICU. Do I have the right to back out of the contract? I know they already set up my extended stay housing, and I have had a drug screen and background screening completed. If the agency cannot hold up to what the contract says, do I have this option? I really wanted to work for them in the ICU, but am very stressed right now on what I should do.

[wanderlust99]

This thread is old, but I would quit. I've been traveling ICU for awhile and have never had this happen. That's BS. The only dishonesty I have come across is when a hospital is looking for tele/floor nurses and they will hire an ICU nurse b/c we supposedly can do it all. Eisenhower Medical Center does this, so beware.

[dance4life]

This was brought back from the dead.

I could not back out of any contract for any reason even if it was unsafe. Lol angencies are not your friend.