AnonyRN

I am about to accept a new position, and the health insurance benefits at the new place do not kick in right away. I need to find a short term policy to cover me for about 6 weeks. I have searched ehealthinsurance.com, but the policies are expensive and are from companies I've never heard of (so I wonder how good they would actually be if I needed to use them). I am single w/ no dependents, and just need a plan that would cover me for a catastrophy. Also, at my current place of employment, it would be too expensive to COBRA the insurance I currently have. Can anyone recommend a good company to go with? Thanks!

Without getting into too much detail: I currently work at "Hospital A." The other nurses are so nice and helpful, but unfortunately the rest of the staff is not. The nurse aides are horrible, and in addition to being lazy, they backtalk to me when I delegate (or try to), and are horribly rude and nasty. Other nurses are having the same problems, and management knows, but chooses to do nothing. Our last manager just up and quit, and the current manager is a "stand in. My orientation (as a new grad) was not that great, and there were times when I was oriented by other new grads. Nurse to pt staffing ratios can get really high at times. Turnover on this unit is high. I am too new to this hospital to apply for an internal transfer, and have heard that I am not thought of as a good fit for this unit. (So maybe they are planning to get rid of me soon?) Just when I thought I couldn't take it any longer, I received a job offer from "Hospital B" which is closer to home, with higher pay, same type of unit, but part time (I would be working 8 hrs less per week). I have friends who work there and love it, and say nurse to pt staffing ratios are great. However, I had a friend who worked on this particular floor for a year, and also old classmates who had clinicals on this particular floor, who said the nurses were completed b*$^@es to each other. So which poison do I pick? lol. I feel like I will be leaving one bad place only to encounter bad nurses at another place. I know no workplace is perfect- I would just like to be able to go into work and do my job and not feel like I am getting put through a hazing so to speak. I feel so grateful that at my current job the nurses are great, but when I have such a lack of support from other staff, it makes things really difficult. So, would it be worse to work with bad nurses or bad support staff? Thanks for your opinions!