Fellow Traveler, Do You Have A Contract For The First of The Year?

[neurorn6]

:banghead:Well, my contract ends in about 2 1/2 weeks and I'm still scrambling for either an extension or a new contract. Things are getting tighter and tighter. How are the rest of you making out? Any luck? I started before Thanksgiving, looking for my next assignment. I have recruiters calling, but they have the same jobs listed as my current company.

I hope things break open soon.

[julzhere]

I'm working a contract now that took me 2 months to get and is not at all the "ideal" contract. The hospital is unorganized and for lack of a better word - "HORRIBLE" and I've found myself in a position where I don't have a choice but to stay. It is very difficult, but so was being without a job. I love traveling, but I'm a little worried about what this year is going to bring. I will probably be able to extend at this hospital but OMG, what a nightmare. I'm hoping that there will be more open contracts when this one expires in March. Major bummer!!!!

[LeXXX]

Try to be patient, I have been looking for 6wks and just go a job for 1/5 on friday. I usually use two different travel companies, but this time around I handed my profile out like candy!! (I would not normally recommend this method as it is very time consuming!!) What is the old saying, desperate times call for desperate measures? As luck would have it my primary company is the one who ended up getting me a job. I also finally consented to being a little bit more flexible (i.e I usually work nights but applied for a day/night rotation, offered to rotate campuses of larger hospitals, etc.) Be VERY careful because hospitals are trying to spread the nurses even thinner. Perfect example is the contract I am currently in.... the hospital hired MANY ICU nurses instead of the tele/medsurg/er/cardiac/heme-onc nurses that they needed and then just told the travellers on arrival that they had policy changes requiring floating to all units..... that way if the ICU got busy (which it usually does at this hospital) they could pull all of these ICU nurses that they floated out back to the ICU. Bottom line.... they had ICU nurses that worked in the ICU less than 10 shifts for an entire contract. I have several other ICU nurse friends working in different states that said other hospitals are trying to do that as well.... Good luck

Hey can we talk about which hospital(s) are doing this? I think we're at a real disadvantage by not sharing information about these things.

Thanks for any info.

[haras regnurps]

hey

did I go to sleep and wake up somewhere else?

since friday the phone hasn't stopped ringing and the internet is full of positions.

hopefully before the end of the week!