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I think it truly will blow up in her face. I don't think the two travellers will be renewing their contracts and will be leaving soon. Meanwhile, the staff is falling apart and I think a couple of nurses (perhaps even I) will be leaving withing a few months also. Cherry

I am seriously considering per diem status. Being a full time staff nurse is just awful. Cherry

Ouch Peeps Sounds like you had a horrible experience. Glad you found prn nursing more to your satisfaction. Cherry

Renerian: You have some good ideas. Believe me, I am upset enough to say something to my manager. I guess the right time will come up when I can mention it without it sounding like sour grapes/and/or jealousy. Cherry

MollyMo I don't think it's right to treat travellers/agency as slave labor. That's not fair to them. They do have to make an amazing transition, and quickly. Staff deserves the praise too, and doesn't get it. That's my beef. Cherry

Agnus: Manipulation! Yes, that's the word. Perfect. That's what I was thinking of. It just left a strange feeling in my stomach. Cherry

Mattsmom: "This is part of the dysfunction within our hospital systems and is management's way of intimidating us and keeping us down. They promote night shift against day shift, agency against staff, fulltime against prn, etc. " Yes, I think you are right. These nurses are very good, don't get me wrong but it was just a weird thing to watch. Cherry

3rd shift guy: "Bottom line, there are good travelers and bad travelers. Treat them well, welcome them, don't cop a resentment about the money they make, and they usually work out just fine." Yeah I guess that sums it all up. :) I'm not really resentful of them, just upset at my manager. Cherry

Cheerfuldoer: "When I did traveling nursing, every assignment but one was nice...treated well by both staff and management. " It seems like you had good experiences travelling. Maybe I should try it. Cherry

SJoe: "Maybe you should resign, then come back to the same place as a traveling nurse, as others have done. " That sounds like a good idea. The travellers are immune from the politics, the vacation/time off squabbles, they set their own schedule and they do not work holidays or weekends. Cherry

I really like the travellers/agency on my floor, they are good nurses. Staff takes the harder patients and the travellers/agency are the first to float. These travellers always pitch in and help the staff if they are drowning. I just find the situation a bit odd. Nursing is a bit odd though. lol Cherry

Has anyone else had an experience similar to mine? C.S.

I'm a Staff Nurse. My unit has a few travellers/agency nurses. They are all good nurses and work hard. One is new. She's already *****ing about the hosp., etc. *****es about nursing, wants to be a doctor. Okay whatever. Her friend brought her to our unit (another traveller) Okay. These two are the managers PETS. They are ADORED. The Attending has joined the lovefest. Okay, whatever. These nurses are publicly praised and patted on the back, hugged (literally) constantly. They are begged to stay on our unit. The Staff nurses are either ignored or spoken to condescendingly. Even yelled at. All the nurses on the unit work hard and are dedicated. I don't see how these nurses are any better. I don't understand my managers thinking. Why does she treat the travellers/agency better than her own staff? Does she want everyone to leave? And yet, she depends on us to work OT and switch days, etc. About two months ago, we had some hairy situations on the unit. My manager made a big show of saying how "phenomenal" the travellers worked during their code, etc. and so on. Big hugs. Big displays of affection and compliments. I had a code too. Another staff nurse was helping me. I was told by my manager that mine wasn't as bad because it was expected. (wtf??) I had taken care of this patient for two weeks and it was a lot of work. I was not told that I did a good job. My boss kept yelling whether the room was cleaned up yet or not. I just don't get it. Cherry Soda

Yah. I dream about work and never feel rested I hear the monitors and IV pumps going off. Vent alarms and BIPAP alarms too. ::sigh:: Cherry

I saw a show like that a looong time ago! Wasn't there hair and teeth in the tumor? Cherry