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  1. NYC Travel buddy

    NedRN replied to tallynurse's topic in Travel

    MSN is strong in NYC? That's news to me! I believe American Mobile had the

  2. Have some traveling questions.

    NedRN replied to LauraRN14's topic in Travel

    Any agency will do 8 weeks if the hospital requests it. Sometimes a hospital will be willing per traveler request even though they wanted longer. Often the agency has to have a higher bill rate for...

  3. Question regarding negotiations

    NedRN replied to Underthemoonicp6's topic in Travel

    Well, it is reasonable for them to confirm that you are not just making this up! Just a name won't do that of course, but most likely they want to counter with all the negatives of the other agency....

  4. NYC Travel buddy

    NedRN replied to tallynurse's topic in Travel

    Monday deposit? Also, you know that Cross Country's purchase of MSN is complete? They have said no changes for 6 months, but after that... you might be on a two week pay cycle for

  5. What experience is best next?

    NedRN replied to Kalipso's topic in Agency Nurses

    TNCC is helpful for work as a traveler in the ED. Plenty of travel jobs in ED, and they pay better and have more choice and less competition than medsurg generally. If you want a new challenge, ICU...

  6. Agency Nurses

    NedRN replied to crNAtion's topic in Agency Nurses

    There is a travel nurse forum on AllNurses. You might want to lurk a bit and learn rather than asking such broad open ended questions. You can literally write a book about travel nursing, and there...

  7. Anyone decline company health insurance?

    NedRN replied to Underthemoonicp6's topic in Travel

    For some reason still a mystery to me after 20 years of travel, agencies typically do not pay a decent stipend if you decline their insurance, often just $100 a month (it should be more like $500 a...

  8. Will I ever feel READY?

    NedRN replied to copeRN's topic in Travel

    No committees, no BS for travelers! Yes, there is work in getting contracts, but in my experience, by the time you learned what the politics are at an assignment hospital, you are out of there! You...

  9. Independent Contractor

    NedRN replied to nursienursie10's topic in Nurse Entrepreneurs, Innovators

    What you want to do is start an agency. Call it what it is! IC is the same as a separate company of any kind, from sole proprietor to LLC, to regular corporations. I started my own travel company to...

  10. Quitting staff job to travel

    NedRN replied to perfexion's topic in Travel

    There are close to 400 agencies that can help you with that question! Yes there are NICU

  11. Moore Nurses?

    NedRN replied to cblauv20's topic in Travel

    Well, that is the right range for pay. Do you do your own taxes? A common service if you use a tax professional is doing your estimated quarterly taxes as part of their fee for your 1040. I know...

  12. Have some traveling questions.

    NedRN replied to LauraRN14's topic in Travel

    A travel assignment is stand alone. You can do one every ten years if you want to. If you are limited to local assignments only, I would suggest you call local hospitals to find openings. They can...

  13. First Assignment in Vanceboro

    NedRN replied to moonunit1130's topic in Travel

    It very much depends on the facility and your ability as well how long orientation will be. I would suggest discussing the nature of the work and length of orientation during the facility

  14. First Assignment in Vanceboro

    NedRN replied to moonunit1130's topic in Travel

    A lot of listings could just mean a lot of agencies staff it. Difficult to know without talking to an agency or the facility. There are a number of posts here that discuss corrections work, a search...

  15. facilities using pbds list

    NedRN replied to HikingNinja's topic in Travel

    There was one, but it depended on traveler reports to be current and I don't think it was updated for several years. So they just took it offline. Not that useful anyway in my opinion as every agency...

  16. contract question

    NedRN replied to HikingNinja's topic in Travel

    Very

  17. Moore Nurses?

    NedRN replied to cblauv20's topic in Travel

    1099 can be a big plus, especially if the agency still supplies a housing stipend off the 1099 tax free. You will be adding a Schedule C to your 1040 tax return and are able to deduct expenses such as...

  18. Should I get another license?

    NedRN replied to perfexion's topic in Travel

    You don't need to get a license in a walk through state ahead of time. Think about that a bit more! if you know you want to work in Florida (for example), it would be in your interest to get it ahead...

  19. Low offer??

    NedRN replied to dankat's topic in Travel

    Travel pay is only peripherally related to staff pay. As it happens, it is easy to get a travel assignment in the Bay area and almost impossible to get a staff

  20. college station tx travel agency

    NedRN replied to mands802's topic in Travel

    You might want to spend some time on PanTravelers to learn some basics and what might be important to you (different for everyone). You can also spend some time on forums such as this one reading...

  21. OR interview questions

    NedRN replied to Ang Louisiana RN's topic in Travel

    What services predominate, call, schedule, scrub needs (if you do it)? Will you be called off for low census? That seems like enough to me. I asked lots of questions when I first started traveling,...

  22. Vegas Conference anyone?

    NedRN replied to raindrop's topic in Travel

    You can wear what you like. You may want to be more dressy for parties. I led a workshop last year and took some major criticism (I found out later) for wearing outdoorsy nylon travel pants (the only...

  23. Quitting staff job to travel

    NedRN replied to perfexion's topic in Travel

    ER is middling completive, middling commodity. Lots of assignments, lots of ER travelers. Pay is better than medsurg, but not as good as OR and L&D. You are better off traveling in ER than medsurg...

  24. Low offer??

    NedRN replied to dankat's topic in Travel

    So there is more to travel than just numbers. Is this a real offer, have you been interviewed and the hospital wants you? How great is your desire to work in San Francisco? Or bag a big name hospital...

  25. Itinerant Tax ?

    NedRN replied to Piratenurse522's topic in Travel

    The right way for the agency to do it is withhold taxes on your paycheck for the value of provided housing per pay period. Of course you can still take the housing stipend in lieu of provided housing...