perfexion ASN, RN

I'm in the same boat. I'm from NY too. I'm 35 and I still don't have my license. I had to bring my hubs to SoCal with me because my entire paycheck was going to Uber. Usually I just get housing near the hospital and eat whatever is nearby. But San F...

I thought they settled already.

Have you ever noticed that if a waiter or Walmart employee or grocery store clerk complains about their job, people take their side and agree that all their customers are jerks, but if a nurse (or a teacher, or a dentist or any professional really)...

I was in the same boat. I worked for 4 years in a teaching hospital where the nurses never did cervical exams. Then I started traveling to private hospitals where I had to do them completely on my own. I watched a bunch of YouTube videos and bought...

Im LnD. I work out in California but I mostly do high risk. There's no shortage of jobs in California or Texas. There are small community hospitals everywhere. I prefer teaching hospitals though so I can't name any specifically. Flexcare is a good ag...

Right now HSG has all the strikes (except for the NY strike; Vital Response has that). If you want to go on a strike this year you will have to sign up with HSG. They outbid all the other companies. I think they currently have between 7-10 possible s...

The hospital hired you in preparation for a strike. I've worked strikes before where the travelers who were there before the strike were kinda running the floor. They already knew the routine and they helped the strike nurses out. You could say no,...

HealthSource Global always has a bunch of strikes. I've worked with them before with no complaints although they were recently acquired by AMN so for that reason alone, a lot of nurses will bash them.

I agree. Facebook is where it's at. I don't know if there is a Cath lab specific forum there because I'm labor and delivery, but I belong to 3 L&D forums so there might be. It moves way faster than allnurses (and there's a lot of venting) but I a...

Pass means pass. Stop stressing over nothing.

I was at Mills in L&D and I hated it but to each his own.

What do you mean what do you do with a house full of your possessions? You leave them there. You don't live on the road. I disconnect the utilities and pack what I need. I only travel 6 months a year, which is essentially 2 contracts. Sometimes I do...

Can't you just move all together? I am a traveler and I love it. I have a husband, 3 kids and a cat. We left everything to travel. My hubby quit his job and everything. It was hard at first but well worth it in the end.

If you cross the picket line at your own strike you don't get strike pay.

You should call travel nurse recruiter and ask those questions. Just Google travel nurse agencies.

It's not travel nursing if you're sleeping in your own bed at night. You wouldn't be entitled to any tax free stipends. Financially there's no difference. You'd just be a non-staff nurse commuting 120 minutes round trip everyday.

Most places want you to have at least some experience with patients. I used to work full time from home but I have been a nurse for nearly 7 years. And I did telephone triage. I really wanted to do utilization management but every company I applied ...

If you don't know what you're doing hire somebody. There are CPAs you can use online, like the travel tax guy. You just send him your stuff and he'll make sense of it. Otherwise your begging for an audit. I've personally never used the travel tax...

I have both, plus the maternal newborn nursing certification. To me they're two separate certifications with two separate meanings and different knowledge bases. You shouldn't be learning anything from scratch to take these exams. It should be more ...

We give tdap and flu shot together right before discharge and if they have a reaction we tell them to see their doctor in the office. Side note: I've never had a patient qualify for pneumonia .

Face palm.

Nursing is nursing. No area of nursing is 100% happy all the time. You take the good with the bad. It's what makes our profession unique.

And I can't imagine you won't be able to find a job as an OB nurse if you move to another state. It's a high demand specialty (if you're experienced).

Depends on where you go. NYC and New England hospitals prefer BSNs. I have an ADN so I just don't go there. I stay in California where there are plenty of travel jobs for ADNs.

Certification means bragging rights amongst your colleagues. It means you're an expert in your field. I have 3 certifications and being a travel nurse, that gains me a ton of jobs, and respect. I can't take that respect to the bank but it makes me ...