ChristopherB BSN, RN

I'm an ICU RN with over a decade of experience. I was offered an ICU position at Tampa General in 2019. Their initial offer was lower than expected, around $33/hr, and after telling them that It was a huge pay cut from another state with a low cost...

I've been a critical care nurse for almost 13 years. I've been thinking for a while about going into Nursing Education or Nursing Informatics. I still haven't decided which one. Previously to going back to school to become a RN, I worked in the IT...

I called the South Carolina Board of Nursing earlier this week because I had a few questions about the license application. I was asked what other states I have a nursing license in and I told the woman I have licenses in PA, NJ, and NC. I also tol...

I saw this in my old posts. It doesn't clarify anything. I was NOT a resident of a compact state at the time(PA Resident) and I didn't become a resident of a compact state until several years later. You seem to be completely missing that fact.

As a man, I can say its not just men who sexually harass other men. I've experienced sexual harassment from female coworkers. Everything from inappropriate comments about my physical appearance and inappropriate sexual comments to inappropriate tou...

I've been at my current hospital for a little over a year. Previous to that I did travel nursing for many years. The first 6 months I worked at my new hospital, I felt miserable quite often at work. I was getting sinus headaches, coughing, watery...

I was a bottle cap inspector one summer during college. Yes that's a real job description. I worked in a chemical plant. I'd open a box of 1,000 battle caps and inspect them under a magnifying class for dirt and damage. Then I'd put them in anothe...

I haven't had an issue getting Comcast or whoever else was the local cable and internet provider to come and set up cable tv and internet at apartments for travel assignments. Often, you can also get new customer promotions when you sign up that inc...

I've been thinking about settling down to one hospital again sometimes in the next 6 months. However I've run into a few issues and I feel that I'm sort of "stuck" travel nursing now. In most places, it would be a huge pay cut if I were to stop tra...

I use to travel with RN Network. However I stopped doing assignments with them. My recruiter was great. Everyone else I dealt with was awful. Also the agency started to become really penny pinching and looking for ways to bill the travel nurses f...

Magnet is just another marketing tool. Hospitals believe they will attract more patients/customers and more doctors to bring patients to the facility if the hospital is magnet certified. Otherwise, the hospital would not pay for the certification a...

In my experience, there aren't a larger number of travel assignments in the Philly area and the few that I found paid below average for the area. Within an hour of Philly you can find assignments in Trenton and Camden that pay well. The issue is th...

I always saw magnet as a marketing tool than anything else. If Magnet was really about better patient care and better nursing, the requirements would be completely different. I've worked at both magnet and non magnet hospitals and never saw the diff...

When I was a staff nurse, I was overpaid twice. Both times I contacted payroll and was told, "Its more of a hassle to correct it than to let it go, so if you don't say anything I won't say anything." So, I didn't say anything and kept the money. Th...

I'm on my second assignment with Fastaff. I work in ICU and not L&D. Overall, I'm happy with Fastaff. I switched to Fastaff after having problems with my previous travel nursing agency. If you have any issues, the recruiters try to resolve t...

Both Fastaff and Nurse Choice do 2 to 8 week contracts.

Maybe they got washed away?

If you use a relative's address, you need to legally chage your driver's license address, voter's registration, RN license address, banking, etc... and return to that address occasionally for it to be acceptable to the IRS.

I scanned all my documents in and signed up for a free dropbox account. I keep a copy of the dicuments on my laptop. A copy on a thumb drive, and a copy inthe dropbox account. That way I always have access to them. I scanend in the documents indi...

If you get your own place, be very careful about where you get it. Reading, PA has been getting much worse as far as crime and violent crime goes over the past 10+ years. I have a few friends that work there now in law enforcement and loss preventi...

Do you have a relative's house you can use as your "tax home" while you are traveling?

I've been with RN Network for 2 years now, and they use to be great, but things seem to have changed last spring and I don't enjoy working for them any more. The only good thing now about RN Network is that they pay for up to 4 weeks of your health ...

I worked with a RN who didn't have to work. Her husband was very successful and even if he lost his job tomorrow, they had enough money saved to live comfortably for the rest of their lives. Eventually, she quit working as a RN because of the possi...

The agency I work for pays for my health insurance for up to a month in between assignments. I haven't had any issues finding assignments only working with one travel nursing company.

I left there in December 2010 to do travel nursing.