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Hello!! I have been a nurse for 12 years and 5-6 of which I have done labor and delivery/gyn/postpartum nursing in some capacity. (have also done med-surg, homecare, etc). 2 1/2 years ago I transferred to the main OR because I needed normal m-f hours...

I started in OR boot camp back in Feb 2012 but came as a seasoned nurse with a background in L+D, medsurg and homecare. Everyone warned me that you had to have thick skin for the OR and treat the surgeons like they walk on water. I figured I would ju...

ok fellow homecare nurses--- does this seem wrong to you? i was hired as a 40 hour per week salaried employee.... recently, our company was bought out and we are now paid per visit.. our census has plummetted and i have had appx. 12-15 revisits per w...

I worked for about a year and a half at the GYN institute in the women's pavilion at mercy. The pay was well above average, great health insurance and pto benefits and it wasn't a bad commute through the city. I would have stayed but found I was not ...

Just a question...how far do you go in order to accomodate your patient's scheduling requests ? I have noticed since getting back into HH, that patients are much more demanding with scheduling. When I give a 9-10am window, I'm confronted with 'can yo...

I was with amedisys for a year and couldn't even hang in there to complete the 12th month for my sign-on bonus. It was 24/7...the paperwork, phone calls from patients and MDs up to 10pm at night all days of the week, the micromanagement. Multiple tim...

I live in harford county and have been trying to get a job at UCMC for almost 2 years. I can tell you that they want 2 years recent experience in all of the specialities (definitely PACU, OR, ER). For fulltime I was offered 34/hr on days (I have 9 ye...

Hello fellow nurses! I am a nurse of 8 years and I recently took a job at a gyn office/clinic assisting with minor procedures and doing telephone triage.( I also did L+D for a few years and still am prn through an agency. )This is by far the easiest ...

Hi Everyone!! I am contemplating which would be best--- doing per diem agency nursing or going float pool in a local hospital?? Do float pool nurses make more money than the regular staff?? Have you found that most of the time with float pool PRN nur...

For those of you who do Med-Surg-- if your agency sent you to a tele/IMC or Short-Stay unit where everyone is on a cardiac monitor, would you demand to be paid the Tele/IMC rate for that unit vs. a basis med-surg rate? Heres whats happening to me-- I...

Just curious if anyone does med-surg float and how do u like it? How much more is the pay vs. regular med-surg hourly rate??

I am an RN with 6 years of clinical experience and I applied to MD General last spring. It was for a pre-op RN position, full-time days with occasional work in the PACU when needed. I have to say that I was floored at how low the pay was. It was actu...

I just started as an agency RN in MD two weeks ago. I have only been cancelled once so far. The staffers at my agency did say around the holidays you get cancelled more bc reg. staff is trying to pick up more shifts for extra money or the census is d...

I just started with an agency in the Baltimore, MD area. I do MS and L+D/MB. The pay all depends on the hospital. Its about 35-38/hr for MS and 38-45/hr most places. No overtime until you hit 40 hours a week. Someone told me that if you go to some of...

On-call pay used to be 75/day for weekdays and 250 for the entire weekend. NOW that we are owned by Amedisys- its dropped significantly. $20/day, weekday or weekend.

Most ALFs that have HH patients use these paper tools and fax them to the physicians- but for order requests as well as clarifications. Its actually alot faster than waiting for a return phone call. Its a great idea, but you are probably going to hav...

FYI--- this company is AMEDISYS!! thanks for your response!!

DONT DO IT!!! Our company just got bought out by them in Maryland. Every change except for computer charting has been negative.......... They will nickle and dime you for everything- We went pay for visit(because the census has been low for months), ...

I have been contemplating getting botox certified as well..I just dont know how to begin after I get my cert!! I would love to be independent of a physician although I know I would have to be overseen by one..... Any advice would be greatly appreciat...

I have a friend who works at Cooper, in Camden, NJ. I think thats somewhat close to Philly. She works NICU there and absolutely loves it.

What about Christiana hospital in DE? Im not sure how far it is from PA but I have heard good things. Union Hospital is up that way too.

Our company just got bought out and we were at 48c/mi. now down to 42/mi. They are cutting costs all over the place with the new co. It used to be 250 for being on-call the whole weekend, now they only pay us 60. Its frustrating. I see patients in tw...

Well the pay was actually based on 40 hours per week- so we worked 3 12hour shifts per week and then one week out of the month you had to work a 4th 12 hour shift so that your pay equaled out to 40 hours. There were some people there who did a mix of...

HMMMM............when I worked there about five years ago, I remember it being around $23+ some change an hour-- which was for day/night rotation. I usually cleared about 1300 biweekly after taxes for a 40 hour work week. Don't remember the different...

One of my good friends is a circulating OR RN at Mercy. She has been very happy there for going on 2 years. I know the staff gets along well and the pay is good. The neighborhood is close to downtown and is definitely not like the neighborhood JHH i...