creaturesmom

Unfortunately age discrimination is out there. I have nursing for 37 years , the last 6 have been as a traveler. There is a lot of good advice already listed. As stated emphasize your life experience that would make you a good candidate- one interview for a travel position wasn't going well , they wanted a "degree" nurse (I'm a diploma ) , I really wanted to go there so I told them I did have a degree--a degree in life experience--got the position. Hang in there , there are all different kinds of nursing and I'm sure you will find a "fit" that is right for you:)

this facility is new - actually Kaiser Bellflower hosp is the one it replaced-did a contract at bellflower not a pleasant experience. Amn does the same type interview that Nursefinders did. Anyway interviewed was told I sounded like a "perfect fit". Amn sent everything to Downey,they got the message that the nurse manager wanted to interview everyone. I thought this was a little odd since I never interviewed with a nurse manager from Kaiser before-finally today got a call from my company-they called AMN and wanted to know when this interview was supposed to take place and they finally got a hold of him he said Oh I did some switching around and I don't need a traveler after all. Nice of him to let people know. So no contract with them-very serious doubt I would ever consider a contract with that facility period. AMN rates are definitely lower than Nursefinders-another reason I am becoming hesitant in taking another Kaiser contract. Heard it was a busy ER from other people I worked with at anaheim.

Anyone ever work at this facility? Am up for an er travel job. Have worked the last 2 contracts in kaiser facility so am aware of the "kaiser way". Had to jump through many hoops with AMN taking over , now it seems the nurse manager wants to interview everyone. Supposed to be a 2/1 start and still waiting for the manager to call. Any info would be helpful,thanks in advance

Worked at one facility where nurses were expected to remove pts within 10 min regardless the reason for immobilization per "policy" I refused to help once because of mechanism-bad mvc pt was removed only to develop "strange funny feeling in my fingers" Pt had c2-3 fracture. Was told oh that's really rare that would happen,rare or not , policy or not it's still my license. No patient should be on a board long enough to cause pressure problems.