Cancelled

I have worked in places were I too was cancelled upon arrival. My agencies always paid me for 4 hours for time and trouble when this happens.

My agency pays 4 hours only if you get the nsg supervisor to sign a timeslip for it. Without a timeslip, you only get 2 hours cause they can't bill the company. I was almost cancelled last night for a 7P-7:30 AM shift. I wasn't on the schedule when I got there. They had put a brand new nurse from an agency by herself. Since it was a busy psych floor it was suggested by the outgoing nurse that I stay on to assist her.

I find most of my problems with nursing assistants the last two hours of a shift.They are nowhere to be found.Amazing!

I guess we got a bit OT, but boy....some nursing assistants can be so manipulative sometimes, can't they! That type figures 'this is 'just' an agency nurse so I can get buy with stuff.."

I worked a whole shift at a new facility once (booked a double) before I even KNEW I had an aide who was supposed to be doing vitals and helping answer lights... she just helped the 'regulars'...GRRRR.

I never went back and made it clear why. 'Course the staff nurses played into this problem as well....by not including this info into the 'flash' orientation I got...

I've gotten cancelled every shift except one in the last five weeks!!! i've told them I'll go to other facilities, but they said 'it's slow time" . My rent and car payments don't understand this concept (or my fiance!) i've gone this week to sign up with two other agencies, but on a normal basis I love my current agency and facilities I go to! I hope things pick up!

I work for three agencies in a rural area and have been canceled a whole lot lately. Every year after the new grads take jobs, agency work gets slow until these new nurses find their desired positions. This year, the slump has lastest longer than I ever remember(I've worked agency for almost 20 years). Who knows what the outcome for agency nurses will be. I do know that I've never seen moral so low in regular employees and agency as I've witnessed in the last couple of years!

You're right about the morale, Agencynurse. I'm on prn staff as well as my agency and it is sure not getting better is it. There is kind of a every man for himself attitude out there. Can't blame us really.

The young nurses come out of school with their pie in the sky ideals and then reality hits 'em square in the face. No wonder so many bail today...

The biggest problem I have with agency nursing right now is the lack of work other, than at the correctional facilities,it is very hard to get placed in a hospital as an LPN if you are not IV certififed.When I graduated from my practical nursing program back in the dark ages,we were not IV certififed unless the facility you worked in chose to do it. Right now I am signed up with three agencies and have only worked one shift in three weeks. I would love to find out about travel nursing.

I am tired of being treated like crap or a "rent-a-nurse". We nurses are our own worst enemy. Some staff nurses aren't even civil to you, and of course try to stick you with the worst patients even if its your first day there. I have ran into so many sorry a$$ nurses in my travels, it is scary. We must collectively act like professionals if we want to demand a professional salary.

I have now taken a pool position at a major teaching hospital in behavioral health. The difference in rates compared to the agency rate is only $3,$2, and $1 less on days/evenings/nights.

Yeah, I've been cancelled 4 times in the last week. I'm just starting out in agency nursing, and I don't really want to go work for a specific facility again, where you can't avoid being involved in the internal conflicts. Think I'll start playing the Lottery...

You guys should look into short term contracts ...renewable.

I know lots of nurses who now prefer this route...they get their hours guaranteed for a time, then can move on if they wish. :)

I had the feeling that my agency was lying to me. They would tell me the hospital had my name and I was booked.

I got a call from one of the people I used to call and give my availability to. She had left because she got tired of lying to all the nurses. She told me all the work is actually done 3 hours before the shift. No one's name was given a head of time unless the hospital wanted to book that particular nurse a head of time.

I took my first travel contract, and I start tomorrow night. I have to drive 2 counties away north, but I could drive the same distance south and still be in my county, Miami Dade County. I won't be cancelled, if I am, I get paid.