Ekaye

Hi Badbird, I've worked for Interim in Louisville Ky,(Home Health),Tulsa Okla, and St Louis Mo, for hospital staffing. I think they are a good company to work for. The pay isn't always on top of the scale but this is one reason they can keep nurses working. Some times the people in the local office aren't friendly, but they are always a phone call away. What I like about this company, is if you say don't call me at 5 A.M. except to cancel, they don't. Not all companies get that message. Good Luck I think you will like working with Interm

I worked for a HCA hospital in the 80's and they were ahead of the time in good treatment of nurses. Having said that--I would not trust them, to be fair to agency nurses. I don't want benefits. I want to work for a trusted company with very good pay. I want to be proud of the company that I represent.

I would never encourage a child to become a nurse. They deserve a working enviorment that is relatively safe from diseases such as HIV and Hep B & C. If they are good at what they do they deserve respect. They need a salery that will enable them to support a family as well as have a decent retirement. Most of all they don't need to always be caught between the pts. wishes, Dr's orders, and hospital/government rules. Having worked as an R.N. for close to 25 years, I have been there done that. Thank God my children don't have to.

I work in a 30 bed hospital. We also have a 4 bed OB unit. Many times we are running all shift to care for 5 to 9 pts. per nurse. The OB nurses may have 1 mom or no pts. at all but come in because they need the pay. They refuse to come and take pts on M/S because of the possibility of a mom coming in and they don't want to give them an infection they picked up on the floor. So they are being paid to read a book while we run our b--- off. Does this happen any where else in the world? I know in the good old days we changed into scrubs and then scrubed and went to do OB. I'm looking for feedback on how other small hospitals handle this.