IndigoCarmine

I've found myself in an annoying pickle over the last couple of years: I work at one of the few NYC L&D units that don't require AWHONN's Advanced FHM course. I hate working there and need to move on, but essentially can't without that dang certi...

It sounds like you've got three different problems, here: 1. they offered you a weekend option. Hospitals that offer "Weekend Option" do so to make sure their weekends are guaranteed covered. It usually means you work TWO 12h shifts a week - either...

Ummm..."per diem travel job" means just that. A per diem position, not a full-time one. Moving cross country for a oer diem job seems sort of crazy...nothing personal, but I don't understand what you were expecting...

I just wrapped up two years in NYC with Aya (formerly Access Nurses, NOT Axis, as someone else posted. Do some research.) and honestly I had no major problems. With each contract I signed my recruiter (who was lovely, and always available by phone o...

"One would suggest you haven't been following things closely as you tought then, for the annoucement did mention nurses, and was covered by local news media at the time." One would suggest that your tone is rather rude. I thanked the poster for the ...

Thanks for that! All the other pieces I read were vague. Administration, clinic jobs and hiring freezes were the focus. No mention of nurses (not that all those cuts wouldn't affect nurses anyway, because of course they would!)

Where I work, if the pts MD is one of the less harried ones and the conditions are favorable (meaning that the unit isn't packed to the rafters...betcha thought I meant the PATIENT'S conditions! Ha! I wish.) then they might place a second cervadil fo...

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Hi, there, LA RNs! I'm an L&D RN from NYC currently on a travel assignment there and my fiancee and I are seriously considering relocating to N.O. once my current contract is up in April. Oschner seems to be the Big Fish around here. Anyone have ...

Actually, flu vaccines aren't on the NVIP list. I don't really fear the standard flu vaccine, either. But the swine flu vaccine gives me the willies.

I think "paranoia" is a harsh word. For me, my issue is a lack of responsibility and a lack of liability. I don't like the idea of getting any shot or med and having no recourse if something goes terribly wrong. I'll admit that considering the massiv...

The hospitals themselves don't pay you back, but NLRP absolutely will allow for some of your federal loan money for nursing school to be repaid if you work at an HHC hospital. I think it's one year of partial payback for each year worked and you can ...

The problem is if healthcare workers are mandated by the state for flu vaccines, it sets the stage for the swine-flu vaccine to be required as well. A rush-job if ever there was one. Not a lot of testing. Not a lot of confidence. No liability on the ...

Holy Cow, omeconium! WHAT a nightmare! So glad you persevered and got what you wanted. WIN!

I work three 12hr night shifts a week as a travel nurse (1930-0800) and I wouldn't have it any other way, no sir! As a traveler I'm discouraged form working any holidays (imagine that!) but back in my staff days Thanksgiving, Easter and Jewish holida...

at my last job we a qs system for central monitoring but had all paper charting (pita!) so we had a labor flowsheet for q30" efm/toco for all laboring pts: pit, no pit, cervadil, cytotec, epidurals, whatever, and progress notes for q1' assessments (...

Ha! We had a sort of strappy-poncho-snugli thing on our PP unit, too! Held about newborns!

PS: that rate is too low an hourly for NYC agency work. Ultracare and Specialty both pay more like $42, but I don't know whether they do extended contracts. That's their per diem rate. If that quote was for outside the city, then it's really quite go...

Hi, you can absolutely receive a housing stipend (or housing) within your home state. I think the issue you ran into with White Glove is that it's not really a travel nursing agency. It handles jobs local to the New York area. There are many travel ...

Oooooh! This is SO not the case! Please go do some research on this. Or even just a Google search. Hospitals with religious affiliations (and their staff) would not be affected at all.

Well, I don't work in med-surg, (I work in L&D as a traveller ) but WOW would I NOT leave a permanent position right now. Stuff is so competaitive right now I'm not certain that an increase in certifications can offset two years of experience. I ...

Congrats on the job! I went into PP/nursery after graduating because L&D wasn't hiring at the time. When an opening poped up 4 months later, I transferred. I DO regret not having med-surg training because so many L&D patients have other healt...

I'm reeeeeeeaaaalllly surprised that cytotec is still so widespread and doubly surprised that it's used so often in smaller hospitals without an OB on the premises. My current job (6000+ deliveries/year, teaching hospital, understaffed of course!) do...

I'm an avid twitterer, but I'm not sure about following AlNurses if it's only going to be just links to articles; particularly since I log in to AllNurses regularly enough that I can see when new articles pop-up anyway. Most people use twitter as a c...