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    Rap. Response OT

    Bluebolt replied to guest769224's topic in Travel

    So you're working 5 12 hour shifts a week under a triple overtime rate and still just barely breaking $2,000 a week? I'm sorry but you're being ripped off. The good news is your recruiter is making a...
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    Rap. Response OT

    Bluebolt replied to guest769224's topic in Travel

    Last summer I used Fastaff and I was routinely begged by the facility to work 60 hours a week. I was in Tennessee making $3000 a week. Do it but beware of burnout, I felt it after 6-8 weeks. I don't...
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    When your contract is cancelled.

    Bluebolt replied to Bluebolt's topic in Travel

    Great point. I really enjoy working with this particular agency and my recruiter is great, it would be a shame if they got shady over something like this. Even if I take this contract with the other...
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    When your contract is cancelled.

    Bluebolt replied to Bluebolt's topic in Travel

    Thanks for the advice Ned. I've never been in this situation. It's sounding like I shouldn't take an assignment with another agency for the moment unless I want to deal with legal complications....
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    New nurse in the CVICU at a level 1 trauma center

    Bluebolt replied to smithRN16's topic in Critical Care

    I don't enjoy it and don't take part in it myself. I believe many people could theorize why in nursing especially specialized "elitist" areas of nursing you experience hazing. The more highly...
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    How do people feel about male nurses?

    Bluebolt replied to Natgurad's topic in Men in Nursing

    I'm a travel nurse who has worked from NYC to Atlanta to Texas to San Fran and I've noted the same thing, it may not be just where you live TheCommuter. Another interesting anecdote is that UCSF did...
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    New nurse in the CVICU at a level 1 trauma center

    Bluebolt replied to smithRN16's topic in Critical Care

    Yes, you will take a lot of crap being a new grad in the ICU. Anyone new to the ICU will take a lot of crap and backhanded comments no matter what their background or non-ICU experience. It's a little...
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    New nurse in the CVICU at a level 1 trauma center

    Bluebolt replied to smithRN16's topic in Critical Care

    If you can make it work, go for it. Although, I will admit that I started off as a new grad in the ICU and was required to do at least 3 months on night shift to get my very basic ICU skills down...
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    Union University Nurse Anesthesia

    Bluebolt replied to Ifeoma Pamela's topic in Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist

    I'm waiting to hear back from them. I applied about a week ago. The deadline for application isn't until Feb 1st, so after that they'll interview everybody they're interested in and then give out a...
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    Live in NYC, Work Perm Staff Job in CA

    Bluebolt replied to PacoUSA's topic in Travel

    Yeah I agree that Boston would be a better option in proximity, nobody wants to fly 6 hours one way twice a week. Although, I hear that planes in NYC and Boston can get delayed and be troublesome...
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    Live in NYC, Work Perm Staff Job in CA

    Bluebolt replied to PacoUSA's topic in Travel

    There is a nurse here at Stanford thats been staff for 20 years in the ED but actually lives in Reno, Nevada. Her family and kids live in Reno, she flies into town the night before her shift, works 6...
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    Financial obligations of a cancelled contract

    Bluebolt replied to perfexion's topic in Travel

    Wow, $7000 is terrible. I'm really not sure what you could do besides attempting to sue the hospital for canceling your contract and requesting they pay the fees. Although the lawyer costs and time...
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    MD's treat male nurses with more respect?

    Bluebolt posted a topic in Patient, Colleague Relations

    So I had a female co-worker tell me the other day that she was sick and tired of these physicians treating myself and the other male nurses with camaraderie and respect while they don't share that...
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    Advice!!

    Bluebolt replied to CarlHester's topic in Men in Nursing

    I understand where you're coming from with your thought process. You like to help people and want to work in the medical field but you aren't looking for the typical (not so glamorous) aspects of the...
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    Too many cancelled shifts

    Bluebolt replied to NurseThompson's topic in Travel

    As the wise Albert Einstein once wrote, "I'll straight up cut a ***** over unpaid cancelled shifts." I never, ever take a contract that doesn't expressly state how many guaranteed hours I'm contracted...
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    Questions about maxing out Per Diem

    Bluebolt replied to melosa08's topic in Travel

    Like Ned said, you shop around and see what you can do. Although I will say as an ICU nurse who just left Texas after a contract was completed the numbers he gave you are pretty competitive. Even...
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    Interested in working just one travel assignment and then going home

    Bluebolt replied to colamom803's topic in Travel

    Of course you can do that. I know a few travel nurses who just like to travel once or twice a year for a few months and then back to their hometown and friends. It scratches their itch to be unique...
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    APRN co-own business - Texas

    Bluebolt replied to buck14587's topic in Advanced Practice

    I was going to suggest you and the PA getting together as business partners and going 50/50 on the clinic and just pay a monthly service fee to the MD to sign off a small percent of your charts, not...
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    Moving Florida ARNP

    Bluebolt replied to doodledome's topic in Advanced Practice

    How cute, you called "AndersRN" a nurse! Obviously you haven't met before. If you stick around long enough he'll prove to you through his uneducated and obscenely biased and ill-informed posts that he...
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    Different cities, different atmospheres.

    Bluebolt replied to CardiacDork's topic in Travel

    Palo Alto, California (downtown) would meet almost all your requirements except the public transit is either the CalTrain or buses. People bicycle pretty much everywhere around here though. Stanford...
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    No First Day Instructions

    Bluebolt replied to ParalyticAgent's topic in Travel

    I've ran into this a few times where the recruiter or manager forgets to provide specific details of what part of the hospital you go to the first day, who do you contact, etc. Usually I figure it out...
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    Would you recommend going strait to DNP after BSN program

    Bluebolt replied to Socal_EMT's topic in Doctoral Nursing Degrees

    I wouldn't recommend going straight into a BSN-DNP program, even if you can find one that allows you to have no experience as a nurse. I'd suggest getting at least a year if not two before you jump...
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    Have you ever been seduced into going Staff?

    Bluebolt posted a topic in Travel

    So I'm on my 7th contract now and I'm out on the west coast. Silicon Valley to be specific at Stanford University Hospital. For the first time I'm actually seeing that financially and benefits wise...
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    CA Travel nurses, what's your take home?

    Bluebolt replied to darlabarr's topic in Travel

    That's a very open ended and easily variable question. Although if you take the housing stipend and work 36 to 40 hours a week you should be making $2000 to $3000 a week in California, roughly. San...
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    Accepted SICU! Need help in preparing.

    Bluebolt replied to RN0429's topic in MICU, SICU

    Google Icufaqs and a great free resource should pop up. It explains things in a way for new guys to understand well. I reference it still years later. Also, just relax. You'll learn as you go, don't...