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Hello Everyone. I have a travel contract and I am not sure if I am being low balled. I am being offered an hourly rate of $21.52/hr with 36hrs per week and a monthly stipend of $1800 nothing else. The assignment is for a Telemetry/Med-Surg float position in Oregon. I am new to travel nursing and my last assignment was with a different travel company in Washington but they have been unable to get me a decent assignment for the last 2 months. In addition, the assignment in Oregon is for 5 months which seems rather long. The company is kinda rushing me to complete the prerequisites for taking the assignment. They are not even paying for the medical. I am hoping for some thoughts and opinions about the compensation package. It seems low compared to what I have read others are making on the forum. Thanks everyone.

Thank you to everyone who have posted. I really do appreciate the advice. There was a particular nurse who had a problem with me picking up extra shifts and would give me hell when she was assigned the charge nurse when I worked. She would comment constantly as to why I was working so much even though she was signing up for extra shifts herself. When I told my nurse manager about this, I was told to work less. Go figure. It's okay though as I am not someone who looks back. I am looking forward to moving on at my new job. So the consensus is don't ask don't tell, kinda like the army's policy, lol.

Thank you everyone for the advice. I will not tell my boss off even though the urge to do so is strong. Burning bridges are the last thing I would want to do. As to keeping mum on my write up, is that a good strategy or am I compelled to tell the truth. It looks like the consensus is to keep mum. My only concern is that my job offer is with a sister hospital within the same hospital system. The Human Resource department is the same for both hospitals and if they have done the background check, then I can assume that everything is fine, correct.

Hello Everyone, I am in a predicament right now. I have been with my hospital since June last year working as a .7 ICU nurse and had a good review at the end of October. In November, I started working extra shifts because my hours were limited but some of the senior nurses resented that. I felt things changing especially from my manager. I started to hear rumblings and I knew who were the ones instigating everything. I decided that it was time for me to leave and in January I started applying for jobs. This is what is troubling me now and need advice on. I was called into my manager's office last Tuesday was given a step 2 write up without ever receiving a step 1 write up. All of a sudden I was told that I had performance issues, was insurbodinate, had integrity issues etc. and my manager hinted to me that I should leave. I knew what was happening (politics) and that if I stayed on I was going to lose my job. Three days after being written up, I had a job interview with a sister hospital this past Friday and yesterday I received a call from the recruiter that I had been offered the job. During the interview, the interviewing manager asked me why I wanted to leave my present job and I simply told that I needed more hours which is the truth as that has always been a point of contention at my present job. I did not mention to her about my write up situation but the interviewing manager told me that I had the job once HR had done the usual background checks. When the HR recuiter called me yesterday and told me I had the job, she did not mention to me about being written up and instead told me that I had the job. My question therefore to everyone is this. Am I compelled to tell the recruiter about my situation with the write up. I have filed a grievance complaint with my union about being written up and the union rep had told me that I am not compelled to tell anyone anything including the interviewing manager. However I feel the need to be truthful and honest but at the same time I feel that if I do I may not have this job. If a background check has been done by HR, surely the recuiter must know about my write up situation and that it is a non issue with HR. Any advice on this will be appreciated. PS. I cannot wait to tell my boss off when I submit my resignation.

I am not sure if this is the right board but here goes. Can someone please help as my fiance is getting ready to come to Oregon from India and she is in the process of getting her credentials evaluated here. However, she is having a hard time getting the contact information for some of the schools and nursing councils that she has her certificates and training from. If members on this board know of what the following contact information is for these schools and councils, I would really appreciate it. Thanks. BM Birla Nursing School West Bengal Nursing Council Guru Tegh Bahadur Hospital, Ludhiana I have scoured the internet but have had no luck finding anything and my fiance is not anywhere close to these schools to make an enquiry in person. Getting the visa to bring her here has been nerve wrecking enough and now we have this to deal with. Thanks.