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Specializes in Critical Care.

Anyone with experience doing locums as an acute care NP? I’ve read some information on other sites and peeked at some agencies. Many of the positions appear to be outpatient. Anyone doing locums in a hospital setting (critical care is my experience) or is the market just not there?

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Specializes in General Med/Surg.

I too am looking at locums work as a psych NP and hope you find something that works for you. I don't have too much to say but will share that I'm working with locumtenens.com and have done one assignment with them, it went fine, had no issues. Now I'm back to do it again 2 yrs later but they have yet to come through on anything. Lots of back and forth, have presented me to various places, but nothing has come of it particularly. I've reconnected with Staffcare who has a psych-specific employee who talks a great talk... just waiting to see what comes of it. I've had difficulty connecting at all with CompHealth. I'm looking for outpatient primarily.

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Specializes in Critical Care.
3 hours ago, juschillin said:

I too am looking at locums work as a psych NP and hope you find something that works for you. I don't have too much to say but will share that I'm working with locumtenens.com and have done one assignment with them, it went fine, had no issues. Now I'm back to do it again 2 yrs later but they have yet to come through on anything. Lots of back and forth, have presented me to various places, but nothing has come of it particularly. I've reconnected with Staffcare who has a psych-specific employee who talks a great talk... just waiting to see what comes of it. I've had difficulty connecting at all with CompHealth. I'm looking for outpatient primarily.

Barton associates was one that was mentioned by my school and they even came to talk to us. Not sure ? of their quality, the idea that they were pitching locum work for soon to be new grads seemed like a bad idea in general.

Ive yet to find anything of interest to give me the spark to actually sign up and apply to a position however.

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