pinktermite

You are a brave one Argo. I've pulled a trailer around the country for four years and twice (both times in Cali) our bikes, which were pricy, were stolen from their shackles. Both times some sort of CIA Jack Bauer cutting device was used to cut through solid 3/4 inch steel, not cable, which I can snip myself with a pair of bolt cutters. Put bikes inside the trailer when you are gone my friend. They even stole the beer from my cooler, how mean is that? Couldn't even drown my anger and sorrow. RV parks are mostly ok. But not all of them. Ive taken other precautions now, to the detriment of any future thief.

I've never been asked to pay anything back for a facility cancelled contract. If you cancel for any reason there would probably be repucussions obviously. If I ask for specifics I always get them. If they don't I move on. Don't work with anyone who does that to you, it's used car salesman tactics and makes us the fool if we tolerate it.

Ned the answer is no, if expungement is properly done (depending on charges and on particular state) then it is proper to answer "no" to the question on convictions and the charge and plea disappears from all background checks. The problem comes when people don't know the law and how to proceed. Many even think they did it correctly when they did not. Many attorneys don't know either, which makes it harder still. Most often the plea of guilty is removed but the charges remain, and that's how they catch people in these inadvertent lies and/or miscommunications. Always get good legal advice beforehand. The problem is knowing what that is. Like medicine, get more than one opinion.

Placing orders under a verbal is legal in every state I have worked in, which I'm sure you already know. My advice is to do what's right for the patient at the time. As long as your position is defensible and you have the charge or house mom at your back you can't really go wrong. In fact it can go wrong for you if you knew something was awry and you did nothing. It's a crappy position to be in but the patient is most important, obviously. We have all been there, and being a traveler makes it a wee bit more challenging. Find a staff nurse or two to lean on. Hopefully you can try that as well. It's a war out there sometimes.

Your instincts are correct. Parks are no more dangerous than other neighborhoods in our sometimes scary cities. In fact sometimes people are more colorful in an rv park. My wife and I have travel nursed in a large camper for a long time. It's a big investment but well worth it, more consistent, and cheaper sometimes by far overall. But you need a good strong truck and knowledge of towing and maintenance. You need to be physically strong enough to hook up as well. If you are the size of an Olympic gymnast then start taking your steroids now! There are several reliable ways to get information on the parks.

I have worked with two such sets of people. One at mercy San Juan in Sacramento. The other in Redding ca. One was a married couple who actually lived in Mississippi believe it or not and the other was Florida. They were both per diem and worked blocks of shifts sometimes for ten or twelve days in a row. Money was ungodly and well worth it. I was shown pay stubs to prove it. Pay was over ten grand after tax each for the married couple. So is it possible? Yes. I am direct witness that it is done. I can say that my wife and I do pretty well just doing travel and without the hassle of working such schedules and messing with flights and airfare and all the rest.

wife gets 84/hr for ICU. I get usu a little less in ER, this time it's 75. She works ot (by choice!). I don't but if I did I do pretty well with this company. Search around. Negotiate. Explain to them you know they don't lose money, even with high ot rates. And never take the stupid "shift bonuses" for ot of 300.00 or whatever, that's usually mated to a really bad rate for ot like 30 bucks.

Ditto Airbnb and Craigslist. Both are top notch. With Craig you need to be a little more careful but Airbnb is already vetted and safe. I have sometimes announced and or posted a sign in lounge at my new contract to rent from a staff member. I almost always get a response from someone who wants an extra 500 bucks a month cash for three months. I pull a trailer to my contracts now, but that's how I used to do it.

My wife and I are both travelers. She's ICU and I am ER. To rent a car is prohibitive and a pain, and if you negotiate that in the contract it will just be taken away somewhere else. Like lifetime free oil changes but the dealer makes a profit elsewhere. There is no free lunch. We pull a toy hauler fifth wheel everywhere. Which means a big expensive diesel pickup to pull it. But that gives us the freedom we want. There's more than one way to skin a cat. You could fly and have your car sent to your destination if you don't like driving. To have our 2015 Durango sent from Iowa to California was about 750 bucks.

i have investigated this in the past. Travel does not make you qualified because they are for profit. You must make 120 consecutive payments while working full time at any non profit. For nurses, any non profit hospital qualifies. Which sucks because I have a high debt load I will die with! Atleast Sallie Mae won't come to Heaven to ask me where last month's payment is. I don't think.

My wife worked a contract three or four years ago at an ICU in Fairfield ca and when it struck them fancy they would float her down the road a few miles to Fairfield. I agree with Ned. Don't get fussy about it if it's work you can do. In the end you get a good review for your next assignment and they erect a statue of you in front of the hospital and give you the keys to the city and a ten dollar Amazon gift card. Do it. It won't happen very often.

I have found extra shift bonuses to be mostly baloney. For example my current contract in Cali has a 365 buck extra bonus for ot. But the ot rate is 30 bucks. No extra money there. I did NOT take a contract (which I should have) in another location in Cali that offered me 115.00/hr straight up for overtime. A way better deal. Maybe wouldn't have had any but still that's a good rate, even for Cali. I liken these to gimmicks trying to get you to buy a car. Free oil changes or a gas card etc.

Again Ned is right, the grand poohbah of this board. I hate to be the bearer of bad tidings, but if you have to insure a family while traveling, it simply can't be done. If you don't qualify for the tax credit for obamas care, then you are probably hosed. I'm sorry to say that but I tried six ways from Sunday to do it when the kids were young, and ended up placing them on low income state plan for ten bucks each. For a husband and wife I just don't see an answer. I have single plan and a medical savings account that builds pretty fast and makes my taxable income even lower. I'm waiting to have that taken away. I need a nap, I'm just so irked that good hard working folks can't have an option here.

If your pay is really that bad, travel is not for you. If you can't make a good profit, do what Ned says. Go staff. I used to insure my kids using Hawk-I. In Iowa that's the plan for kids if your under a certain income. 10 bucks a month per kid. That allowed me to stay on single plan. Thanks to the ACA affordable insurance no longer exists unless you can qualify for the stupid tax credit. Try seeing if you qualify for that, it's worth a lot if you can, but you have to be practically destitute to get it. I made 41k taxable last year and my obamacare for one person would have been 650/month for the crappy plan. I feel your pain. And hope you can figure something out. Elections have consequences folks. And that's the last political statement I will ever make in an open forum. But facts are facts. I wish you well.

That's why I work in the ER. I can nag directly if I don't get what I want.