qkelly111

Ok im gonna be honest with you. Paranoia will not help with agency jobs. Ive come to learn in my experience that agency nurses are liked (in my case) by managment and dont get "picked on". Remember your a nurse and just do the job. The only bitterness you might run into is that we in the agency tend to get better pay than the people were working with so there is jealousy in some cases. I would suggest that you work for more than 1 agency that will widen your choices and help you find work if a facility cancels you out for a day. The agency tends to have a rule that you cant work for a facility for a certain amount of time after they have you there but find out how long you need to wait and dont take assignments at the place you want to apply. All agencies have contracts with facilities that state if a facility wants you to work for them as an employee the facility has to buy you and your contract fronm the agency for 20-30% of your yearly wage. People have all different attitudes at different facilities. But they all have the mouthy idiots. Just ignore them and move on. Im sure your gonna do fine with your assignments once you get in the flow of things. The biggest challenge with agency nursing is the fear of whats gonna happen and that fades fast once you hit the facilities. Good Luck

I was lucky i got 3 days lol. I did night shift for years. What to expect depends on where your working. I was in a nursing home and the night shift was predictable. The main med pass is in the am just before people get up 5 am for me. If your job is like mine was be ready for paperwork and basically all the petty/dumb stuff days and evening shift dont have time to do. Its my experience that the biggest challenge to a night nurse is not the job as much as adapting to being awake over night. Remember when things go wrong at 3am there aren't too many people to help you out. Lean on the other night nurses at your facility for advice and help night shifts usually are a closer group of people. I'm sure you will do fine.