Why aren't you working for me?

[Agency]

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i am a director for a medium-to-large sized local nurse staffing agency and i have been following this site for some time now. i am wondering, what keeps nurses from working for agencies such as mine? we are always on the lookout for new nurses, but it seems that more money, flexibility, respect and individual satisfaction just isn't enough. what is it about agency that scares nurses so much?

let me take a moment to assure the monitors of this site that i am not advertising for my agency, as no contact information can be obtained from this message or my bio page. i'm just doing some research.

we have been in business for over 16 years and generally keep our nurses at the facility of their choice. we have well over 500 nurses and a wide choice of facilities to work in. our nurses work with facility nurses doing the same work and getting a much better pay along with a much more flexible schedule. yet these facility nurses refuse to work for agency.

if anyone has any thoughts, i would be happy to hear them.

agency

[Norbert Holz]

What would you do if a nurse working for you was placed on a do not use list?

[Brownms46]

It depends on what the problem was. Some hospital put you on a do not use list...for just about anything they feel like it! I found it was kind of like a backlash...sometimes against agency nurses who wouldn't jump high enough when the facility said jump. Rarely was it was something serious. So it would just depend .a lot of agnecy nurses have at least one place their on a do not use...list. Sometimes it's for canceling the hospital...or refusing to go to a certain floor.

[kimme721]

my reluctance with signing up with different agencies is they all promise the best rates and get you into whatever hospital you want. however, after filling out countless skills checklists, having my co-workers called a million times by different agencies looking for a reference, still no success in finding me an assignment in my area.

I think it the agency can give a list of hospitals they have contracts (or whatever you guys call it) with then it would help potential travelers decide if they want to work with that agency, and then with suggestions from travelers, the agencies could decide if they need to expand their access to hospitals in different areas.