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  1. Am I just clueless here?

    NedRN replied to mlane12's topic in Travel

    It is California law. Typically union contracts are not binding on agency or traveler contracts. You would have to be a union worker to have union contracts be enforceable. You caanot enforce a...

  2. Enjoying my first travel assignment in Hawaii!

    NedRN replied to MsConstrued's topic in Travel

    The blog link was removed by the moderators as not allowed in a post. But it is allowed in profiles. Click on her name, then "website". I'm not entirely sure I'm allowed to say this about someone's...

  3. Super Confused!

    NedRN replied to rmsm's topic in Travel

    I have some additional comments to make to trackhead's good reply. Any list is going to have some underlying criteria. Understand where they are coming from and you can use the information better. In...

  4. Am I just clueless here?

    NedRN replied to mlane12's topic in Travel

    I see a typo in my post. Let me clarify what blended rates are. If an agency is paying overtime after 8, the base rate may not look attractive compared to agencies paying a flat rate on 12 hour...

  5. Am I just clueless here?

    NedRN replied to mlane12's topic in Travel

    The base law is overtime after 8. However there is an alternative workweek allowed in the law based on worker vote initially which a lot of hospitals do, both because the nurses want it (the...

  6. Am I just clueless here?

    NedRN replied to mlane12's topic in Travel

    Just as an FYI, I believe from ShoeGals description that her total hourly pay is on the order of $42. I'd say that rate is consistent with Southern California (but may be somewhere else in the state)....

  7. Enjoying my first travel assignment in Hawaii!

    NedRN replied to MsConstrued's topic in Travel

    Wow, Hawaii! Congrats. Hope I didn't mislead you about anything, I don't remember what advice I may have offered. Your post on Hawaii in the other thread was great, especially for those worried about...

  8. Expungements in MN

    NedRN replied to Peanut&Buttercup's topic in Nurse Entrepreneurs, Innovators

    I'm not a lawyer, but I don't believe it works that way. Yes, no public record (although some may persist on private databases, the kind used in many background checks and BON in other states where MN...

  9. LOA while traveling

    NedRN replied to perfexion's topic in Travel

    No harm if they grant you a leave of absence. Right? So why not? You can continue your current staff insurance. They may allow that without even invoking COBRA (which gives you the absolute right for...

  10. Seasonal Nursing-Florida

    NedRN replied to onthego22's topic in Travel

    If you find hospitals with in-house seasonal nurse programs, such as Bradenton, they usually pay better than you can get with an agency. A small downside is that they will tax all your compensation,...

  11. Titers

    NedRN replied to acern72's topic in Travel

    If you can document 2 doses of MMR, employee health should accept that no matter your titer results. The QA person at your agency should know that, but apparently does not. Unlikely she has any...

  12. Tax question

    NedRN replied to cn4333's topic in Travel

    No, expenses at home cannot be business expenses generally, especially when you are at home. For example, you might be able to deduct a house sitting expense, but could you do that while at home? I'm...

  13. Expungements in MN

    NedRN replied to Peanut&Buttercup's topic in Nurse Entrepreneurs, Innovators

    I'm not sure I see the benefit of such a service. On a job application, nurses usually must sign a declaration that they haven't been convicted of even a misdemeanor. That wouldn't change even with an...

  14. Independent Nurse Assessor--more than one company?

    NedRN replied to nlk96's topic in Nurse Entrepreneurs, Innovators

    Unless your contracts specify you may not work for a competitor, I don't see any conflict. You are doing assessments, not corporate espionage. I'm sure that there are no proprietary secrets you could...

  15. Advice in getting your next travel assignment?

    NedRN replied to Macreel's topic in Travel

    The problem is that you can't help it. Agencies sell their traveler databases (something that probably happened more frequently during the economic downturn as agencies went under). About 5 years ago,...

  16. Am I just clueless here?

    NedRN replied to mlane12's topic in Travel

    Good to hear, it is disconcerting when really high weekly grosses are posted, it gives people the wrong idea about travelers, especially since they don't take housing costs into consideration. I was...

  17. Am I just clueless here?

    NedRN replied to mlane12's topic in Travel

    How you view compensation depends largely on your frame of reference. In general, most compact states are not the highest payers. If you happen to be from the South, even the lowest paying travel...

  18. First time traveler! Any experience with Flexcare, Faststaff or Trinity?!

    NedRN replied to mlane12's topic in Travel

    Emerald has a ton of California assignments and I have a number of friends who use them. One of my friends was responsible for getting Emerald to offer extra shift bonuses to all travelers (originally...

  19. HCA, Parallon, Colorado & Utah

    NedRN replied to averysrnmom's topic in Travel

    What is odd about that? Hospitals that are poorly managed with bad finances turn to professional management companies. I suspect Tenant hospitals are better workplaces than HCA hospitals, but with a...

  20. New Orleans Travel RNs - Help!

    NedRN replied to nicoled787's topic in Travel

    Craigslist is just the new classifieds. Just as respectable as the advertisers. Property management companies and individuals advertise there, just like they did in newspaper's heyday. No matter how...

  21. Internet and Cable on the GO for Travelers

    NedRN replied to nicoled787's topic in Travel

    I've never once paid in close to 20 years of traveling. Despite my internet overuse, I'm OK with going to a coffee shop, library, supermarket or any other hotspot to burst upload and download or just...

  22. First time traveler! Any experience with Flexcare, Faststaff or Trinity?!

    NedRN replied to mlane12's topic in Travel

    You can negotiate as you wish. But clearly to go from making $44 an hour on your contracted hours to base rate plus 50% which is $27 an hour for overtime is just criminal. Even $44 for overtime would...

  23. Advice in getting your next travel assignment?

    NedRN replied to Macreel's topic in Travel

    Totally individual preference, as constrained by availability. Perhaps the majority of assignments these days are ASAP or last minute. It is difficult to find assignments with a start date two months...

  24. HCA, Parallon, Colorado & Utah

    NedRN replied to averysrnmom's topic in Travel

    For profit hospitals have built in incentives to minimize costs, including staff. So HCA, Tenet hospitals and their ilk have bad staffing ratios typically (short staffed) with minimal support...

  25. First time traveler! Any experience with Flexcare, Faststaff or Trinity?!

    NedRN replied to mlane12's topic in Travel

    The original poster is already signed up with Trinity so has a