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I think you can survive better on per diem, why? you can dictate your days of availability, weekly. After I did HH FT for 2.5 yrs, dropped to per diem and it was never the same. I can choose to work as many days as I want or not at all. Charting is always the big downside, the worse is management, schedulers and whoever surrogates that are sent your way. As I always say, to many chefs in the kitchen or to many hands in the pot. Same thing. Do not ever feel that you have to chart in the office, they have to do the same thing to others and not just you, otherwise, they are discriminating. You may argue, as long as charting is done (on time or delayed...mostly) but the work itself would intimidate your supervisor. Use it accordingly and if it fails to make the change, I guess you have to find your bliss. Good luck!

Been a HH RN traveler for 5 yrs., went on FT, and per diem and recently went back. First and foremost, record your interview Q&A in case you need to refer back to it, then understand your contract in reference to what was discussed esp. if there's a "floating" option, I mean areas in terms of 1 county to the other as needed. Be clear and do not agree. It takes just 1 Yes to be taken advantaged. And they will, they feel they pay the "big bucks". Travel nurses hits the ground running and be adept with their EMR, charting will put you on overtime is always a question you need to be clear with because they will not pay over 40 hours. They would say, "we guarantee 40 hours" but will stop there and anything over 40 hours will not be paid, which on weekends you'd either spend time charting or OT after your weekdays of work. Good luck!