NedRN

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  1. Travel Nurse Eduation

    NedRN replied to CardinalSyn's topic in Travel

    Advanced practice is the future of healthcare. Not enough docs and doc cost more than double for the same work. I think the cheap education now is smart. It will be easier at your age than if you...

  2. Locum Tenens NP/CNM

    NedRN replied to sunmoonstars3's topic in Travel

    To just maintain parity with ordinary wages, IC pay has to be 10% more to account for employer paid FICA, workers comp, and unemployment. Add another 30 percent or more for missing benefits. Add...

  3. Verbal Contract

    NedRN replied to cincin1222's topic in Travel

    This is tongue in cheek but inform them that since they broke the contract in regards to compensation, you will be billing them for lost hours and profit. No, I don't think you want to continue with...

  4. USVI in 2015. Whos going?

    NedRN replied to Sankofa84's topic in Travel

    At least a third of cases cancel for lack of a patient or surgeon. L&D is immediately adjacent to surgery with two C-section rooms and surgery does them. Circulating them requires a lot of...

  5. Don't understand take home pay

    NedRN replied to cincin1222's topic in Travel

    I've already agreed that wage recharacterization is illegal. That is an employer liability. I've again added emphasis for your benefit. While negotiating with agencies to get more tax free money is...

  6. Don't understand take home pay

    NedRN replied to cincin1222's topic in Travel

    Employers are free to pay any wage without oversight by the IRS (as long as they follow minimum wage). Tax free stipends are regulated by the IRS in terms of accountable plans by employers, business...

  7. University of Colorado Hospital

    NedRN replied to nhnurse25's topic in Travel

    Ideally your concerns would be discussed in the facility interview with the manager. Then you are on record and there are no surprises. Moving forward, telling them about weaknesses upfront when you...

  8. Travel with American Mobile?

    NedRN replied to gogetter73's topic in Travel

    Ask for recruiter's name by private message. Allnurses will delete names in a

  9. Travel Nursing as a New Grad

    NedRN replied to 2014Student's topic in Travel

    One of my early assignments was in Charleston WV. The staff nurses made $15 an hour, travel nurses made about double. The OR was 90% travelers. The hospital's own policies put them in a real bind....

  10. New traveler tax questions: single and renting

    NedRN replied to phluteloop's topic in Travel

    Having a tax home is worth about $10,000 a year of bankable money for most travelers. If your expenses maintaining that tax home exceed that figure, then no, it is not worth it. Having a defensible...

  11. Starting up traveling again!

    NedRN replied to openheartgirl's topic in Travel

    Working at a troubled hospital does not incur jeopardy to your license, only you do. Impossible workload? All you can do use your nursing experience and judgment to prioritize care. If you do that,...

  12. Starting up traveling again!

    NedRN replied to openheartgirl's topic in Travel

    I'm not surprised. There is often a correlation between high crime areas (which is persistent) and difficulty in staffing/morale. Nurses (like everyone else) prefer better areas to live in, and can...

  13. Can you make a living just doing strikes?

    NedRN replied to perfexion's topic in Travel

    I've been to three strikes now with perhaps unusual motivation. The first one I went to because I was curious about the logistics and how patient care worked under such conditions. The next two were...

  14. Starting up traveling again!

    NedRN replied to openheartgirl's topic in Travel

    They have used lots of travel nurses for at least the last 15 years that I know of so this is ongoing. It has been a while since I have read comments about it, but they have been mostly negative in...

  15. What do you do with your home?

    NedRN replied to dreamer30's topic in Travel

    Yes, you can do local assignments although sometimes local hospitals don't allow locals. You will pay taxes on all of your compensation so often when you consider all the benefits of staff like...

  16. Travelers Conference 2015

    NedRN replied to PacoUSA's topic in Travel

    I may go this year and lead a workshop. Just depends on my work/play schedule. You probably don't need the beginner's seminar. Go early if you want to socialize though. The never-traveled will love...

  17. Can you make a living just doing strikes?

    NedRN replied to perfexion's topic in Travel

    Or like most strike workers I have met, they have a full time job in the South. One of the interesting dynamics here is that if a traveler takes a risk and signs up for a 2, 3, or 5 day strike and it...

  18. Can you make a living just doing strikes?

    NedRN replied to perfexion's topic in Travel

    There is a reason why you invent rationalizations to be a scab. You know it is distasteful, and you want to feel good about yourself. Despite your very human need for defense mechanisms, I'm sorry, I...

  19. Missing a class for CA license

    NedRN replied to ewrn's topic in Travel

    I've heard public speaking mentioned a couple times now on this forum as missing education for California. For the record, my nursing school in California required a communications class "Fundamentals...

  20. Missing a class for CA license

    NedRN replied to ewrn's topic in Travel

    There is only one way to be sure and that is to ask the BON. Try to get a copy of the syllabus for

  21. Weighing up the pros and cons.

    NedRN replied to thenightnurse456's topic in Agency Nurses

    Agency = per diem, or "by the day". So try it out one day at a

  22. Parallon travel

    NedRN replied to natashacardiacrn's topic in Travel

    Ask the recruiter if she knows what she makes. Then tell her you would like to know what you will

  23. California

    NedRN replied to ERpinup's topic in Travel

    Those are meal breaks. You are still entitled to a ten minute break every 4 hours. You can either call the labor board or many specialty lawyers to recover your pay. It will pay one hour of regular...

  24. Parallon travel

    NedRN replied to natashacardiacrn's topic in Travel

    Ask her if she knows what she

  25. Employment verification from Medical Express. Help appreciated.

    NedRN replied to Twigg's topic in Travel

    Do they have a verification form? Otherwise ask what acceptable verfication