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Hi all, Travel nursing has always been on the agenda for my career, however I was planning on waiting till my kids got a little older, but now I’m seriously considering starting now. I’m currently a cath lab nurse and my hours are basically gone. I have lots of adult critical care experience so I could take an ICU position pretty easily. It’s hard to ignore some of these pay rates for crisis. It is crazy or is anyone else considering it?

I work currently for vhs it isn’t bad, their benefit package isn’t amazing, but ur isn’t horrible either. HCAs pay scale is similar but their benefits are better. St rose has recently closed a lot of critical care positions so I haven’t seen a lot posted for then recently. Hope that helps!!

If it’s a valley health hospital that’s probably pretty close. I would ask the recruiter how many years of experience they are crediting you for. I have learned the hard way they tend to under estimate.

If you want cath lab or IR stay away from Henderson hospital, you will never get full time hours, they don't have any where near enough volume to sustain full time hours.

I would rather not have a long commute, but I don't require nice upscale accommodations, just a private bedroom. I was going to try to research which hospitals are using a lot of travelers, and going from there. If anyone has any recommendations of which hospitals they recommend, please private message me.

not going to lie, i doubt I could do more than 2 16 hour shifts in a row.

Oh yeah, I'm well aware of cancelling, I have worked Per Diem in Nevada. I think you have to find the right job where canceling isn't a big issue. One option for me was talking call for Cath Lab or radiology. Not ideal pay wise but guarantees hours.

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Yeah I know it's tough, my girlfriend actually is looking in more the Napa area, she knows Icu manager there. I'm lucky I have a good job but I like adventures, so if it took me a year to make this work, that would be fine. I would also like to see what other states are like to work in because I have only worked here in Nevada.

Yeah I am, and I have a friend who is too. She already has her license.

Per Diem Nurse's Pay-Stub Goes Viral: $19K in 2 Weeks!? | Nurse.org Ridiculous right? I can totally Airbnb it in a twin bed a couple times a month, if they money is right!

Hi I'm an experienced adult critical care nurse, ranging from cath lab and IR to CVICU and MICU. Someday I would love to travel nurse but I have small children. After seeing the recent post of the $19,000 paycheck, I'm wondering what the possibilities are to get a per diem job in one of the higher paying areas of Cali. I live in NV, so airfare shouldn't be to bad. Thoughts? Anyone know of any openings? Thanks for any input Bri

At every hospital I have ever worked at, pharmacy had a policy in place to draw a dig level at least weekly. No MD ordered required, since MDs can over look home meds. Ask the primary or cardiologist for a level, most doctors would rather be safe than sorry.

When I worked the floor, we had certain cnas, that could take a blood pressure off 220/110 and not feel the need to notify us until like 645. Most were great and knew the levels at which we needed to know right away but there was were like 2 who were just plain bad, and because they had 20ish pts to do vitals on we never knew when they were going to do them. As for doing them ourselves, haha what a joke. 7-8+ a night for each RN (med -tele) , 6-7 RNs at night, 2-3 cnas only 4 vital signs carts..... Do the math! Vent away, but my advice to you is take in what you can, figure out what makes you happy and do it. I am in ICU now and I love it.

I have never worked at St Rose, but my nurse buddies who have, canceling has not been a problem lately. Census is up even though it should be the low season in vegas, so I don't think canceling has been a big problem anywhere lately.

I work in nevada and any nurse that has worked in a different state we are 10 years behind the rest of the country. Nevadains don't put any level of importance to health care (or education). As for blood draws in the office, thats not true. That particularly office doesn't draw blood but my current and former doctor both offered labs in office. I also used to draw labs for an infectious disease doc.

If thr hospital refuses to take appropriate action then take it to the state's board of nursing, not only what yhe nurse did wrong its illegal.

I understand what you mean working med/surg you spend all your time gettinf your must does done and you all yout paperwork done you never really know your pts. I have been a working floor rn for a year and a half and I have used my maternity leave to rework my career plan. Personally I have always wantrd to work in the er so.thats what I am going to do. If you want to go to the icu do it. You still are better.than those nurses you saw during nursing school. You recognize the short cuts and it bothers you. Change jobs before it stops bothering you.

most states allow nps some prescribing rights, but each state is different.

you may want to find out how long the wait list is for the bridge program. When I was in school it was 2 years and its the only lpn to rn bridge program in the valley.

yeah i do and I think by the time you graduated it willbe even better.

New grad hirin has gotten much better recently. In fact valley hospital is hiring 12 more new grads. I wouldn't do the lpn program. Those jobs are impossible to find, just my 2 cents.

When I had my son in Aug, both of my l and d nurses were travelers, so they can definitely use l and d nurses. As for your certifications, I was thinking about trying to get into and l and d and those were the only certifications i saw requested. Hope that helps! PS moving to vegas in june.... ouch its so hot!

I had worked 3 months in an LTAC and valley still put me through their new grad program. I believe they try to put anyone hired into the valley system with less than a year of experience through it.

no, the reason your being discharged has nothing to do with your insurance, its because the evs found a crack pipe in your bathroom and your attending dr does want to be responisble for you if you od. i really, really wanted to tell a patient that today. i also wanted to tell her that the fact she gets up walks over to the nurses station to remind me her pain medication is due in a half hour and then out to smoke, does not make me think she needs pain medication, it annoys me.