Evaluating Travelers/Contract Nurses

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I work on a unit that just opened this past year. In the midst of a nursing shortage, obviously opening a unit with staff is difficult and so I work with a lot of contract nurses and travelers. These nurses are there for six months top and they are required to leave.

I just found out I have to do evaluations on all of them, the same as I do "my" staff. I always thought we did an eval through the agency and that was that. Just a lot of extra paper work for me. I'm doing an eval on one who has three weeks left in her contract.

So how do you travelers/contracts get evaluated by the hospital your in. Those who are supers and charge nurses, does your hospital require evals of travelers in the same manner as regular staff?

I was thinking I had only a couple of evals to do now I have over a dozen, grrrr.....I guess that's what I'm angry at, more paperwork for me. :)

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But what if this person decides to come on staff??? Wouldln't it be a good tool to have if they do??

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Originally posted by Brownms46

But what if this person decides to come on staff??? Wouldln't it be a good tool to have if they do??

Good point. It's not all that difficult to do the evaluation.

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Glad to read that 3rdShiftGuy:cool:!

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Originally posted by 3rdShiftGuy

So how do you travelers/contracts get evaluated by the hospital your in. Those who are supers and charge nurses, does your hospital require evals of travelers in the same manner as regular staff?

I was thinking I had only a couple of evals to do now I have over a dozen, grrrr.....I guess that's what I'm angry at, more paperwork for me. :)

Tweety, you are not being unreasonable. Paperwork just does that to some of us :)

I do evals on agency nurses in addition to my staff.

We don't have have any travelers right now, and I really don't remember if evals were done for them also, it has been a while, so I can't answer that part of your question. A dozen does seem like alot, but I think it's time well spent.

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