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  1. Does Not Having A Nursing "Specialty" Matter?

    NedRN replied to Nurse_Lightning's topic in Travel

    So I would say yes, you could. However, you won't make so much money from one assignment that it would be worth bypassing doing a specialty internship if you can handle that concurrently with your NP...

  2. American Mobile Advice

    NedRN replied to Rn0504's topic in Travel

    Great first

  3. Is My Pay Really That Bad???

    NedRN replied to Nurse_Lightning's topic in Travel

    Also, RNFA "programs" are really self designed. So there won't be a "program" that offers vein harvesting. Again, you don't need to get an RNFA certification when you have an NP, just the skills and...

  4. Is My Pay Really That Bad???

    NedRN replied to Nurse_Lightning's topic in Travel

    Yes. Huge need just for the surgical part - you don't need to be an NP. NP just gives you much much more value to a surgeon (any surgeon, not just cardiac). By the way, there is a minor trend towards...

  5. Is My Pay Really That Bad???

    NedRN replied to Nurse_Lightning's topic in Travel

    $30-$40 doesn't really mean anything absent context. A travel nurse can be making $20 an hour but still be making total compensation of $50 an hour when travel, housing, and per diems are included. In...

  6. Is My Pay Really That Bad???

    NedRN replied to Nurse_Lightning's topic in Travel

    So much depends on your plans what you want to do with your NP. If you want to be an RNFA, then as an operating room nurse I'm biased to recommending that you switch to OR now. It is likely that you...

  7. Is My Pay Really That Bad???

    NedRN replied to Nurse_Lightning's topic in Travel

    I just came from a hospital where your job was called short stay. They admitted all the patients coming from home and got them ready for surgery, and then took the outpatients after recovery and sent...

  8. Anybody worked at Stanford hospital in Cali?

    NedRN replied to Bluebolt's topic in Travel

    Any hospital has negatives, and I saw some at Stanford both assignments. They may or may not apply on your unit. You also have to deal with AM (now) and from what I've heard, AM doesn't pay well...

  9. American Mobile Advice

    NedRN replied to Rn0504's topic in Travel

    Your story is actually very helpful. I'm going to send you a private message. I'm not entirely sure if you can read it or not, I know you cannot send PMs until you have 15 posts. Look for it by...

  10. American Mobile Advice

    NedRN replied to Rn0504's topic in Travel

    Well, it sounds like you did it right by not agreeing to the contract until you reviewed the contract. That doesn't mean the agency will take it well. They could indeed blacklist you - not such a big...

  11. Anybody worked at Stanford hospital in Cali?

    NedRN replied to Bluebolt's topic in Travel

    As for housing, once you have a travel contract, you can use Stanford's housing department. Many local landlords only list their property there. Last time I worked at Stanford (I've been there twice...

  12. Anybody worked at Stanford hospital in Cali?

    NedRN replied to Bluebolt's topic in Travel

    Stanford - uber prestigious Peninsula/Silicon Valley - uber

  13. Taking a contract for a different specialty

    NedRN replied to HikingNinja's topic in Travel

    Well, since no one else has responded.... Doing just that is common as staff, especially in a small hospital. In fact, you might even be floated as a traveler. But if you cannot show time spent in a...

  14. Crisis/strike travel

    NedRN replied to michlynn's topic in Travel

    Strike nurses replace striking nurses. Pretty simple. Crisis (or rapid response) is simply a facility that has an urgent or critical need and are willing to pay more for getting open positions filled...

  15. Travel Nursing and Pregnant?

    NedRN replied to Myprettykitty's topic in Travel

    I think a staff job is easier after an extended absence than a travel

  16. Travel Nursing and Pregnant?

    NedRN replied to Myprettykitty's topic in Travel

    It can be possible to get a travel assignment with over a year lapse of work history, partly depending on the demand for your specialty. There are a couple of issues, one being NM's raised eyebrows....

  17. Travel Nursing and Pregnant?

    NedRN replied to Myprettykitty's topic in Travel

    8 weeks is possible, but usually through a rapid response agency like Fastaff. If you had asked for advice before quitting your job and moving overseas (and becoming pregnant), I would have suggested...

  18. Looking for a career change

    NedRN replied to tashacorinne's topic in Travel

    There are close to 400 agencies and every one of them will have fans to recommend them. There really is not a shortcut to calling lots of them to find recruiters that you trust. The plus is that you...

  19. Crisis/strike travel

    NedRN replied to michlynn's topic in Travel

    That would be nice to have all hospitals unionized! And nonprofit. Not only for nurses but for patient care (kind of the same thing really). There is a danger there if unions become too powerful. Just...

  20. Crisis/strike travel

    NedRN replied to michlynn's topic in Travel

    I remember seeing a bumper sticker in Louisiana (I worked offshore) around 1975 that said: "Right to work - for less". I wondered what that meant for 20 years. Now I get it - funny! My fellow...

  21. Permanent position vs traveling?

    NedRN replied to nurse2yu's topic in Travel

    I think you will find that PCU/step down is more challenging than ICU. ICU you will have one to two patients in bed. In PCU, you may have 3 to 5 patients, with two on a drip, and three post op...

  22. Crisis/strike travel

    NedRN replied to michlynn's topic in Travel

    I did notice a sharp rise in Florida pay for travelers a few years ago, but I doubt that is related to any union activity. I can only guess that with job insecurity sentiment among nurses, many...

  23. Crisis/strike travel

    NedRN replied to michlynn's topic in Travel

    Florida has a nursing union? I wasn't aware of any union hospitals there. The South has some huge blind spots. They think the Republican party will help the worker, and that unions are bad. These are...

  24. Crisis/strike travel

    NedRN replied to michlynn's topic in Travel

    There is a forum that specializes just in talking about strikes. If you google scab dot org (with punctuation), the first hit will be it. Scab dot org was its prior address. Still a rather unpleasant...

  25. Kaiser taped interview

    NedRN replied to HikingNinja's topic in Travel

    Yes, it does. Some specialties no, such as operating room, but yes in critical care. You may be floated to medsurg/tele as well. It will depend on the specific hospital though and their