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I am considering a travel ICU position at Desert Springs...have you heard anything good or bad? I'm at Renown in Reno right now in the CVICU getting off a 6 month assignment.

Michelle - what was Desert Springs like? I am considering a position that was offered to me there...I will be in ICU, though. Anything you can tell me would be great!

If you work in Arkansas, your starting pay today (2011) would still be just $17.75 hourly. Arkansas is a state with little nursing fraternity, it seems. Positive change will only come with a unified nursing voice and all of us sticking with each ot...

I was extended on this assignment, already, but the hospital I am at only allows nurses to travel for 6 continuous months, so I have to switch. What is everyone else getting for overtime? I just didn't feel like it was right for me to get less in ove...

I'm about to take my second assignment....I'm trying to figure out if I was "had" on the first. I don't really like my recruiter with RN Network. Have you heard anything about them being sheisty? My base was $18/hour plus $2600/month housing stipend ...

I am looking at taking a travel position at Renown in Reno, but I have read good and bad things. I am an SICU nurse and will be moving my wife and two baby daughters with me, so I don't want to make a huge mistake that I will regret if the facility i...

Apparently I don't have enough posts to PM yet....is there another way we can get in touch? I'm fairly new to the forum.

Reno1978 - I'm thinking about taking my first long-distance travel assignment in SICU at Renown, but I will be taking my family, and I guess I'm just looking for some kind of reassurance that it isn't an awful place to work. I've read some good and s...

I am considering taking a travel job at Hillcrest in the ER. Does anyone have any experiences with Hillcrest (particularly ER) they can share? I did a short stint in ICU at Muskogee Regional and it was AWFUL. I do not want that to happen again!

I work in SICU and get lots of overflow. We constantly take floor patients that require "baby-sitting" or just plain overflow. We also get all of the pediatric overflow because MICU RNs don't have to carry PALS at my hospital. I think this ICU dum...

And as far as how long you can survive with a high temp... It depends on your health and metabolic status before the disease process set in. Some people are able to compensate better/longer than others. I have seen super high temps last for days, a...

I do this really cool "jumping into my pants" thing where both legs go in at once. But anyway..... Rarely do I start out by asking the doctor for something. I usually tell them what assessments are concerning me, and then I tell them what I think ...

Nurses have options for where they work. Let your manager know this. If nothing changes, find a place to work where you can enjoy what you are doing. -Evan RN

One of my friends graduated from nursing school in August 2009. He has still not found a job as an RN in California. He has applied to hospitals, clinics, nursing homes, you name it. He has even been turned down for CNA jobs. They attribute this ...

Sounds like you were being a good RN and looking at your patient instead of fixating on the monitor. Also, your pulse ox monitor is reading only the saturation of that one finger that your probe is on. An MD can almost always talk you into feeling f...

One thing to consider is this: At any given hospital, you will need many many nurses for each radiology tech. And the demand for nurses is generally the same day or night in a hospital. In the hospital, we keep much more radiology staff during the...

Hello - I'm new to the forum and am very interested in working for Providence, as I've heard good things about it, and my father-in-law lives in Olympia. We will be relocating and I will have 1 year of SICU experience, concurrent with 1 year of Med/S...

Do you have any idea what agency Providence uses for travel nurses? I want to move my family back to the area, but I'm not sure whether to do travel nursing first or just apply to the hospital. I work SICU.

Does anyone know what agency Providence in Olympia uses for travel nurses? I'm moving back to Seattle area after 15 years with my RN degree, and I am looking for some info on good agencies in the area. My father-in-law is living in Olympia, so we tho...