burningout

I had my contract cancelled. I realized I was going to have to pay the rest of the lease. The problem is they are charging more than they should for items. For intance they said I owe for 1/2 month of the furniture rental. Well they rental company said accidentally sent me the monthly bill. It was for 311 but the company said I owe 202. Now the last time I did math half was 155.50. Now I wonder how much more they are charging me. I figured they charged twice for pet deposit but they deny this. They are going to keep the deposit and not give me my utility reimbursement. Thats ok. Now I don't know what to believe. I told them I want a itemized list with reciepts. I'm half tempted to call the apartments and ask for the real total. This company promised me 36 dollars a hour. By the time they nickled and dimed me I was down to 29. Be careful if you ever travel with Sagent healthstaff. Has anyone else ever had this problem.

update; Well it happened and I didn't know until I got to work. Well my worse fear happened. I walked to work 1 mile in the dark only to be told to call my agency. I knew what that meant. My recruiter forgot to check his email. Yes, I lost my contract. They said I made multiple errors. Not true, but I was told I was a target. I was under so much stress with the threat that the last few days when I would go to work I would cry before starting. Iwas put through emotional torture. Got home and finally got a hold of my recruiter. All he can say at the moment is we'll figuring something out. I feel like I was put through an emotional hell. Maybe, things will work out for the best. I'm really scared right now because I don't know what is going to happen. I don't know if I could put up with the anti traveler #@#@ much longer. I wasn't perfect but I am human. I deserved to be treated better than this. It's not like me to mess up. I'm sure the stress didn't help. I was the second traveler in one week that they did this to. I hope I can find something soon.

I have been a travel nurse since Nov. 2005. I'm starting to burn out from hospital nursing and politcs. I'm currently at the Kaiser in Santa Clara. Againist my better judgement I took this assignment. I had a bad experience with Kaiser before. First they cancelled my contract two days I was before I was to start. I took a threat of legal action to get me started. This should have been a prediction of what was to come. I decided I wouldn't let this damper the contract. Well from day one they have made my life miserable. The floor I'm on most travellers won't renew, because they are so unhappy. The hospital isn't traveler friendly. I was told to my face by management that Kaiser owes the travel nurse nothing. There has been several nights when the floor had moretravel nurses than staff. Now with the economic problems they are trying to find ways to get out of contracts. If you make any mistakes they will cancel your contract. Well recently I made an error. Now my life is more miserable. I go to work and start crying because I'm so miserable and feel unwanted. I'm having trouble concentrating on my work setting me up for more mistakes. I left early today due to low census only to find another complaint. This isn't like me. I'm not perfect but I don't mess up like this. I don't enjoy being a hospital nurse anymore. As a traveler I've gotten use to being the dump nurse and according to this hospital a second class nurse. I want to do a different type of nursing. I've become interested the last few years in pallitive or hospice care. I feel stuck. To complicate this I have a 24 year old son, that I took this job for so he can have some new opportunties. He can be verbally and emotionally abusive to me. Now he saying I have in my mind to move away from here. He not even being nice about it. I can't afford to cancel my contract on my own. I can't get my recruiter to understand how bad it is. It's so bad I had to talk myself out of hurting myself. I feel like I have no one who cares. I have no where to turn. I feel like I'm the worse nurse in the world and a second class citizen. I don't need judgemental person. I know in my heart that I'm a good nurse who is human. I know I need to get out of hospital nursing before I lose my love of nursing. I wish I could find a new avenue of nursing.

If you are a traveler in Northern CA don't make any mistakes. I made one when I didn't catch a med ordered on previous shift wasn't given. The manager told me. Kaiser feels no loyalty to travelers. Since census is low they aren't allowing any mistakes and will cancel a traveler's contract. Even though they are asking agency for contracts, the hospitals have made it known that they are trying to find ways to cancel contract. I made a mistake and have to take the fall. If you find a nurse that has never made a mistake, I would be shocked. Right now the travelers are being put through a higher and unreasonable standard. Why not instead contact the agency with 2 weeks notice, that contracts have to be cancelled. Give the agency time to find us another job. Why make us go through a living hell, wondering one day to the next what will happen. Don't ruin someone career. I'm living with constant uncertianity. My house is rented in Kansas to someone. My son and I can end up homeless. The managment at Kaiser said to my face that they really don't care about travelers. Ironically, I have worked shifts when over half the staff was travelers. I'm really scared. Don't know what going to happen to me. My agency said we will worry about things when they come down. I will need a job right away. The economy is bad. Has anyone ever had a contract get cancelled due to a mistake. How hard is it to get a new contract?:uhoh21:

This happened to me in September after I already moved in. My company had to start threating legal action. Kaiser and the middleman don't realy care about how they treat people. They aren't travel nurse friendly. You are nothing but a disposable product not a person. They treat you like crap even though the amount of travel nurses on the shift I work is almost 50 percent. This should tell you were nurses rank in the Kaiser system. They like to find anything to cancel your contract but they don't have enough nurses. We are helping them out why treat us bad. I will never work at a Kaiser again. I will also never have their insurance, since they can't treat nurses better.

This insurance only helps with malpractice. I have a nephew that was a lawyer. Check with relatives and friends. I never had to call. It sems the threat helped me. Good Luck. Your agency should be standing up for you. Mine threaten to charge the hospital. It depends on what their agreement says.

It seems the threat of a lawyer helped me.

Update: After much pleading and threatening an attorney I got to start a week later. The only quirk I have now is with my company. They quoted me that I would make a certian amount before figuring the difference in rent for my son and the dog. Somehow they have nickled and dimed me to 6 dollars an hour less. I went on line to check the difference in rent for the apt and furniture. I also, figured the dog deposit and rent. Still, somehow I'm getting the short end of the deal. whenever I confront my recruiter about this I get told administrative cost and fees. This is bull, they get a fee from the hospital on top of my salary and housing for this. I have to pay the utilities and only get reimbursed 100. What's the deal? I've been a nurse for almost 18 years. I feel I could almost or can make more as a staff nurse. I'm ready to stop travelling it just doesn't seem to pay. Well at least i'm woking now.

I was to start a contract at the Kaiser in Santa Clara. After my agency already moved me in I received the news that the contract was being cancelled. My agency received a confirmation that I had the job. A company named nursefinders was a middle man. I now here with my son and unsure were I stand. It cost me a pretty penny to move. Nothing in my contract said this could happen. My little agency never has had this happen before. They now want me to pay rent. I told them no, I didn't do anything wrong. The hospital said they could give me a position in two to three weeks. This nursfinders said maybe some per diem no guarentee. I have less then a 100 with no income. Has anyone ever had this happen to them. I've been traveling 3 years and this is a first. I have considered consulting an attorney. Why am I being made to sufer for some elses mistake. No one sems to care about the effect on me.