Published Jan 5, 2015
aprilbutler70
15 Posts
Does anyone know if the hospitals in San Diego use a particular agency or vendor management company? Or if you can tell me any particular agencies you have used recently? I do NICU/PICU. I would like to work at UCSD nicu or at Rady, But as I am desperate to be close to my son in the Navy there in San Diego till he leaves for japan in August.
Thanks
NedRN
1 Article; 5,782 Posts
Lots of agencies can place you in San Diego. The largest agency in the country, American Mobile, is based there and I would expect good coverage by them. Perhaps not the best pay though.
PacoUSA, BSN, RN
3,445 Posts
When you say not the best pay, Ned ... is it at least $40/hr? If so, that's still not bad (although I know it can be at least $7 better in the north).
Larger agencies have higher costs than smaller agencies and so in general pay less. There is no way I could extrapolate that truism to a particular pay rate. What I said was "perhaps" not the best pay rate based on that truism.
$40 am hour doesn't have much meaning by itself, but if you meant $40 plus housing, per diem, and travel, then no, very unlikely in that market for NICU.