Wrong choices for assignments

[jefccu]

I am a new traveler and was curious if others found this to be a problem. I phone interviewed with the critical care manager and was told that I was going to be in CCU or other critical care area as per my speciality. After asking about being pulled to other areas of the hosp. IE: tele,floors, etc..., that I would only be pulled if the census dropped. There have been no empty unit beds in the hospital and I have spent only 1 of my 12 days there in a critical area. The rest have been in their s/p OHS unit with 6:1 ratio. These are 3-4 day post-op with tele monitors and no lines except hep locks. I am not bashing tele as I probably couldn't handle 8+ pts. after being used to two, but I would not have accepted this assignment if I was informed that their CCU was staffed and their step downs were not. I have spoken with other travelers there who said they were told the same thing I was. Should I expect this level of dishonesty, or was this just their way of staffing their step downs?

[herdital]

Has any one taken an assignment in DElaware? I bought a house there 9 miles from the beach Hoping to turn it into The Nightingale Rose Bed &Breakfast. so all you burned out nurses have a place to go and crash. Then you might remember why you wanted to be a nurse in the first placeIn the meantime I need a place to put afew shifts in I will be commuting from cal I am a critical care nurse.

[OC_An Khe]

You might want to mention to the employer that "mislead" you on the floating that when fellow traveling RNs ask how the assignmment went; you wouldn't recommend any RN accept an assignment at that institution until they change their level of integrity.

[lever5]

Herdital,

Wow. Never been in Delaware, but I would come to your bed and breakfast.

[MSprisRN]

It is awful that this happens but it does. I too was promised something and when I got to my assignment I never got it. I have also learned a valuable lesson.:imbar ALWAYS GET IT IN WRITING! :)