Travel nurse between two hospitals only?

bagladyrn, RN · Apr 7, 2008

Not true - unless it is an internal policy of one of the hospitals. What you may have heard that was confused by someone is that certain agencies and/or hospitals have a clause in their contracts that you will not work a contract at that hospital "With another agency" for a set period of time and/or that any permanent employment with that hospital for a set period of time will be arranged through the agency (with a payment to them from the hospital). The actual legality of this clause is open to question, but many facilities won't want to push the issue as they want to continue their business relationship with the agency which is of more benefit to them than one nurse.

KatieBell · Apr 7, 2008

I heard that if you accepted and worked a travel assignment at a particular hospital that you cannot work as a travel nurse at that hospital again. Is that true? I want to travel between 2 hospitals as a travel nurse--six months at one and 6 months at another. One is in Washington and one is in Texas.

Agree with bag lady, this is not true. At some point in time, so question about a tax home etc may come up, or othere situations may occur that make this impossible for you to continue (Some hospitals suddenly stop hiring travelers etc), but certainly, you can return to hospitals, I get calls from places I;ve been at often asking if I want to do another contract.

The other thing is that some travel companies have a clause that says if you do a travel contract at a place and they then hire you, they must pay a headhunter type fee to the agency, or you can not be hired. so perhaps thats what someone was trying to communicate.

If you only want to go to the two hospitals, I think I'd look into getting seasonal contracts with the places, rather than going through an agency. Probably would save you some money, or rather, make you more in the long run!!:wink2: