New York City Travel Nurse Info/help Needed

[ItalianLady]

I would really appreciate some advice on an agency that could place me in NYC for an assignment and also any advice on hospitals that you have worked a contract that you could recommend or anything else that would help me there . I am a seasoned ICU nurse but new to traveling . Thank you for all comments and help . Anyone that would like to travel in Western North Carolina (Asheville, etc. ) I would be happy to help you with that .

[loricatus]

Sent you a Private Message. I don't think that we can make direct recommendations on the board. Are you already familiar with NYC because there is a lot to explain if you are not? For instance: which borough are you thinking of working in?

[infermera1977]

OMG North Carolina girl! Since you are a fellow italian and an icu nurse like me, do not, i repeat DO NOT under any circumstances go to MT Sinai med center Cardiac Surgical ICU or CPCU, their progressive care unit...the nurses are TERRIBLE the doctors ARE A**HOLES its incredibly busy you never take a break, no one helps you and when you give sign out at the end of the shift all the nurse taking over from you has to say is what you didnt do on your shift and speak tagalog (the fillipino language) to her friend about what a bad nurse you are. I had the VERY unfortunate experience of becoming staff there and I am a seasoned NY nurse and i cried every night... I stayed there a loooong and painful nine months because i wanted to try to give it a year for whatever stupid reason and it was sooooo painful. I still get chills every time i think about that place. Some of the other icus might not be too bad there but Icant be sure, that hospital is horribly run, there are no supplies on top of everything else, the doctors never write their own orders, you are forced to put in your own verbal orders for everything, on top of cleaning the patient, and taking care of the crashing patient, and running around to different units to get hte supplies you need and trying to fix old monitors that dont work any more so that you can get an acurate cardiac output and then dont forget suctioning and blood gases every two hours and nebulizer treatments because there are no respiratory therapists...oh the list goes on and on...tell your friends dont go to mt sinai!!!!! magnet hospital my butt!!!

[RRT2RN2CRNA]

Yeah I second that. I had a nurse friend who worked there for 5 weeks before she quit and she cried too.

See what happens when you don't have RTs? hehehehe...

Although somehow I think not having RTs was only part of the problem....