livingkennedy

So my school requires us to find our own preceptors, which I didn't think would be too much of an issue until I found out that they require the majority of them to be ACNPs, as I'm in the AG-ACNP track. I had plenty of MDs lined up and willing to pre...

I have joined the AANP and and LANP for my state and thus far it has helped by giving me a lot of contacts, but it has not helped that none of those contacts are responding.

I have started an agency and have been looking to get assignments but it seems that every single hospital uses VMS/MSP for supplemental staffing. Not only do they use it, but they require it. I have talked to about 20 different hospitals and they don...

While it may not make you like your job any more, perhaps it will reduce stress: Much of what you might be scared about in the ICU is taken care of by fundamental things. 9 out of 10 problems a patient encounters in the ICU can be dealt with by fluid...

I got a quote for professional as well as business insurance through NSO which includes the general liability required by a lot of hospitals. I read that back in 2004 it was around 265 per year. I am getting quotes for over $900 now. What do any of y...

How much do you pay for your general liability if you don't mind me asking? I am getting some crazy quotes from companies in the 3k range just for general liability + worker's comp (which I haven't yet figured out a way to get out of the worker's com...

I have been looking into the payroll process, and it seems most ICs use a payroll service. I can't for the life of me find out how that works - the payroll websites give generic information. What I want to know is: Do you get a check directly from th...

Thanks Ned. I didn't know if there were ways to get the money forwarded to the payroll service. Kinda like direct depositing from business to payroll service. On a somewhat different but related note: When you invoice a hospital - how often do you d...

I have experienced a bit of both. After years of experience even the sickest don't bring as much joy or intensity. I do like those patients more, but often I feel like what those hospitals do to some of those people is just not even humane and a huge...

This is a question for you IC nurses (Ned!): What items do you have to provide as your agency to HR? I have read I need drug screen, ACLS, BLS, PALS, background check?? Immunizations, TB test, physical...but then I have seen your FAQ and it mentions...

Wolf where do you get these quotes? Every time I google some of the text you send, I get a dead link.

I was told by some people that if a travel agency supplies a nurse for more than full time hours in a week, the hospital has to pay the agency at 1.5x bill rate. Is this true? I would think they could charge the hospital a flat bill rate no matter ho...

This is mainly for my research into IC nursing. Let's say you form a contract with a hospital - you move there, sign a short term lease on an apartment, work zero shifts or only a few and then they cancel the contract - how do you protect yourself f...

Damn, I typed this huge thing out and submitted and it never actually submitted. Here goes again: Basically the reason I am asking is that I want to be an IC for my own agency once I get my hands on some decent contracts. I wanted to get a little mor...

PS if you've seen a hundred agency to hospital contracts, can you send me like 5% of those? OKAY THANKS! (the ones I have are nearly 20 years old if not older, and not complete).

After looking further, I suppose that possibly you're not including the housing stipend as hourly rate. Some include it and some don't. I tend to include it as my pay and will calculate it in to form a total hourly rate. This works better for me as I...

Math is not my strong suit, so I may be missing something. What hours do they have you working, 36? When I do a quick number crunch at 36 hours, you're making more than the numbers you gave. I get you grossing $1613 weekly, with a net of $1417. That'...

Many agencies will do around 20 per hour with 245 weekly per diem and a 2500ish housing stipend. With tax savings this is probably a little over $40 per hour.

I often see a lot of job postings by travel agencies for specific hospitals. Has anyone had any success in directly contacting the hospital that the travel agency is trying to recruit for and then negotiating a high paying temporary contract as an em...

I'm curious how ICs go about finding assignments. Do you have a formed letter that you send to the HR department of various hospitals? If so, what do you usually include on there? Keep it short and sweet? Does anyone have a sample letter? This seems ...

I'm curious how ICs go about finding assignments. Do you have a formed letter that you send to the HR department of various hospitals? If so, what do you usually include on there? Keep it short and sweet? Does anyone have a sample letter? This seems ...

I'm curious about visiting hours in the ICU's of other hospitals - if yours have them, what they are, and how they are enforced. I work in a particular part of the country where we have to have very limited visiting hours. The culture here is such th...

I'm currently an ICU nurse and I've been considering moving to a larger city. I've been told that many of the ICU's in larger cities are set up in a POD system. I've never seen one of these setups and would like to know more about how patients are a...