couple of questions

[Nightcrawler, BSN, RN]

I have been thinking of taking a travel assignment as a way of relocating back home, and giving me some time to find a permanent position while saving some extra cash. I have been talking to a company for a while and recently asked them for some sample contracts to go over as I had heard of non-competition clauses that would prevent me from taking a permanent position at a posting if I had liked it there. The recruiter that I have been talking to said that she was unable to provide me with any samples. Should I take this as a red flag for the company and look elsewhere? Have any of you seen many standard non competition clauses on your assignments? Is using a traveling assignment a good way to move to another state, or would I be better off just looking for a permanent position from the beginning? Thank you for all of your advice.

[kenheather]

This is something that I have thought about too. I'm from CA and it's so expensive to live in that state, but I would love to be close to my family again. Any travel nurses out there, I would be very interested in this info as well.

[nightingale, RN]

I am very reluctant to allow tax and legal advice to be given on the Bulletin Board. Tax info, like legal advice, can get very complicated, litigious, and expensive in the long run when you get advice from a non-expert in the field; you need a CPA to review your taxes. That being said, it would be nice to hear of similar situations from posters who have had this same event.

I too hope we can hear from posters with similiar situations.

nightngale1998

Moderator of the Travel Nursing Forum

[Nightcrawler, BSN, RN]

I don't think that I was actually looking for legal advice, but more for information about how common non-competition clauses are within the travel community. I was also concerned about whether other travel nurses who were experienced with the ways of agencies thought that it was a red flag that the agency I have been talking to had refused to forward sample contracts.

[nightingale, RN]

K

In Wyoming, one of the states I have worked in, because of the state regulations, the Agency could forbid the Contracted Nurse (even when the assignment was over) to not hire on for one year. I know they had you sign a contract etc. to this affect and advised you regarding the dollar amount of the fine. I also had heard of a Nurse who was gone after for the fine.

If it were me, I would expect this is writng BEFORE I took the contract. You have every right to expect the agency to provide you with the information. I am not sure if it is a "red flag" but a sign of the times that the Agencies Recruiters do not bother themselves with this information and often just care to get you signed up; this is NOT true of all Agencies.

It will be interesting to hear of others experiences.