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  1. Best housing/accomodations!

    cvryder replied to snowbiggie's topic in Travel

    Top drawer with On Assignment, and they furnish everything right down to the forks and bedsheets so you don't have to drag all your stuff around. TNS put me up in some nice extended stays, the bonus...

  2. housing Q and recruiter comment

    cvryder posted a topic in Travel

    I've been with my current agency for well over a year and a half now (5 assignments) and really like them, but it's like pulling teeth to get an assignment in the area I prefer (central/west/north VA...

  3. housing Q and recruiter comment

    cvryder replied to cvryder's topic in Travel

    Hmmmm. I've traveled with TNS and On Assignment, and both of them offer the "housekeeping package" which I really prefer. Who else does? And I disagree that they skimp on something else. On Assignment...

  4. Travel Tennessee?

    cvryder replied to rnrae's topic in Travel

    Well, avoid Wellmont Hospital in Kingsport like the plague. They will tell you anything to get you to sign a contract, and when you get there you'll find it's all a lie. Johnson City Medical Center is...

  5. ACLS when traveling

    cvryder posted a topic in Travel

    Who's had experience keeping up their ACLS when traveling? It seems like everywhere I go, the hospital has either just done their ACLS classes, the classes are full, or (like now) all the classes in...

  6. Nurses RX

    cvryder replied to Fezmarelda's topic in Travel

    I went with On Assignment and I've had really good experience with them. Contact me privately if you want details or recruiter's

  7. Nurses RX

    cvryder replied to Fezmarelda's topic in Travel

    I talked to them for awhile and was about to take an assignment...it was significantly less than I'd made with my previous agency, but the unit was one that was right up my alley. I was already to...

  8. supplemental health

    cvryder replied to bstrongrn's topic in Travel

    I talked to Supplemental last summer after meeting a traveler who worked for them. I quit talking to them when I found out I'd have to find my own housing. I'm with On Assignment and they find mine...

  9. Halo Staffing?

    cvryder posted a topic in Travel

    Anyone heard of this outfit? I've been getting stuff from them fairly often recently. They are out of Newport, KY, which is right across the river from Cincinnati, and I surmise they got my name...

  10. housing grumble

    cvryder posted a topic in Travel

    I love the company I work for, but I'm tired of dealing with one different housing coordinator after another. I haven't had the same one twice even though I've stayed pretty much in the same area....

  11. MLK hospital in LA

    cvryder replied to nsFAMU's topic in Travel

    I heard Very Bad Things from someone who worked there. I would personally feel I was putting my license in danger if I went there, and I have 20+ years

  12. Cardiac Nurses please help!!

    cvryder replied to heartlover07's topic in Cardiac

    We'd all like to have 1:3 but that doesn't work out in the usual realm of things. I've worked on cardiac units with 1:4 all the way to 1:6, which included (but mostly weren't) post-stent and 24-hr...

  13. dobutamine

    cvryder replied to samaletta's topic in Cardiac

    That would be about it. I've worked in and around critical care for about 10 years and have not used dobutamine all that much, but have used it on a cardiac tele floor, and those assessments (rhythm,...

  14. Is 50 Too Old

    cvryder replied to mccordd's topic in Travel

    Lord, I wish I were 50 again! I started traveling a year and a half ago at "over 60," and I'm having a ball. I've noticed that everywhere I go travelers are pretty much the same...either young,...

  15. Medical Solutions question, please help

    cvryder replied to carebearRN's topic in Travel

    I've been with On Assignment and have had good hourly pay (>$30/hr) in all positions. They also provide excellent free housing, furnished right down to the spoons and bedsheets. No complaints...

  16. Dhmc

    cvryder replied to SFRN's topic in Travel

    When y'all talk about hospitals, would it be too much to ask you to locate them in city/state? Someone might be interested in what you have to say about DHMC but have no idea where it

  17. basic needs

    cvryder replied to DCCCRNn2005's topic in Travel

    Depends on what your housing situation is. I travel solo (divorced) and my company provides housing that is furnished down to linens and forks. However, the kitchen equipment is incomplete as far as...

  18. Hca

    cvryder replied to AMANSVIEW's topic in Travel

    Amen to that! My last assignment was an an HCA facility in Richmond, VA. I felt they cut corners constantly at the expense of patient care. I'd be wary of taking another assignment with another of...

  19. Traveling Advice

    cvryder replied to zoefire's topic in Travel

    I've been traveling for a year and a half, now on my fifth assignment. Whether or not you get dumped on as a traveler varies from hospital to hospital and unit to unit. Most places I have been are...

  20. About to call it quits before I start!

    cvryder replied to lorster's topic in Travel

    You can try to get the block scheduling written into your contract, but good luck! I did work a block schedule on my last assignment...straight weekends, days...but that was because nobody else wanted...

  21. Where do I go next? Shands hosp, short term in AZ, Pitt co, NC???

    cvryder replied to Beneficence's topic in Travel

    I worked at Pitt County in cardiac intermediate and it was probably overall the best assignment I've had. I think their critical care departments generally get high marks. Only bad thing about the...

  22. The BEST Companies

    cvryder replied to silly1982's topic in Travel

    I'm with On Assignment too, about to start my fourth assignment with them. I'm pretty picky and want to stay in the VA area, and I've been lucky so far even though they rarely list jobs there other...

  23. Something good to say

    cvryder posted a topic in Travel

    I'm 2/3 of the way through my contract at Pitt Memorial in Greenville, NC, and I have to say it's the best assignment I've had yet. Aside from having to take that &^%$#! PBDS, everything's been...

  24. Frustrated!

    cvryder replied to m_chatelaine's topic in Travel

    Maybe I'm missing something or just in a lower-paying area of the country, but $32/hr is somewhere near average here. Are you sure you're not translating that into $32 Canadian? Our $32 might be...

  25. need housing help, STAT! HELP!

    cvryder replied to piperknitsRN's topic in Travel

    Oh my goodness, that sounds like the place I was in Alexandria, VA last spring! It was horrible. I got there on Saturday evening, no one was in the office and the on call person was an answering...