Did your hospital make you sign a contract? A "TRAP"

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Were you forced to sign a contract-TRAP (Training Repayment Agreement Provision) in order to be hired? Commit to a certain number of years of work or else repay training costs, sign on bonus, for new grad or experienced nurse new to a specialty. What do you think about that? What state are you in?

HCA has stopped using TRAPs

Nursing union NNU critical of TRAPS

California legislature reaffirmed that New Grad contracts are unlawful in the state. AB 2588 was signed into law by Governor Newsom on September 30, 2020, clarifying that, under existing law, nurses and other hospital employees cannot be held liable for the cost of their own training except under limited circumstances...

https://www.regulations.gov/comment/FTC-2021-0036-0275

TRAP stories...

https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/994868?form=fpf