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I worked one contract with them they paid on time and accurately, but they will not ask about days off during the contact, and when the unit I was hired on for converted from a PCU to a surgical unit I found out from other travelers and they took days to confirm it. They are much more comfortable as a noon travel agency.

This assignment that I am finishing and the next are local travel between 5-40 miles but not all hospitals accept local travelers

We bought pads and lined the carriers. It worked for 3 days for us.

I asked my recruiter about that she said that it depended on the company but that I was free to apply as long as I completed the assignment first. I had already worked for the company for over a year and that hospital for 10 months though.

I worked at two hospitals Centralia WA, it was just too small for my preferences my family and I took the provided housing the company put us in Olympia 20 minutes away. After that I went to Virginia Mason and loved it stayed 10 months. The state is great. My husband and son did not care for Seattle, just too crowded.

Hi, I have worked as a travel nurse in the Seattle area with an ADN, and have gotten travel contracts with hospitals that require a BSN minimum.

I brought my husband and son with me. He homeschools our son and my days off we explore our area. It was a way for us to explore the country together.

I went with cross country because I was a new traveler. I was fully signed up with 3 other agencies, they have just gotten me interviews and jobs faster than the others. My pay is nice, I have worked in one meh hospital and one great hospital that I have been re upping with. The housing was OK, I started taking the stipend because they were charging $900/mo more for a second bedroom in Seattle. They worked with my dog and 2 cats but made it seem unreasonable that I asked.

Hi I have worked with cross country for 9 months. My recruiter is nice, overly talkative and doesn't understand night shift nurse speak at noon or why I don't answer the phone at noon when I worked the night before. The housing has been good they worked with finding a place that took 3 pets. The first hospital was OK and the current one is great. The pay is on time but accurate; however the pay is not necessarily the highest. I have 3 agencies that I work with and cross country has just been able to come up with more jobs.

I have not had trouble with company housing with my husband, son and I with our lab and 2 cats. Find another agency.

It depends where you hope to go. I am a tele stepdown unit nurse, and have been able to find contracts in WA with just a week between jobs. The other state I am licensed in is KS and they go stretches of months without posting a job, in my specialty.

I have been traveling with my husband, son, dog, and two cats in a Subaru outback. We drove us and our stuff from KS to WA. Uhaul sells roof carriers and get suction bags.

I have worked in long term care as a housekeeper, then CNA and then through school as a LPN and RN. I absolutely love it, as a nurse manager we are small enough that I know every nurse and their children who sometimes come to visit our residents. And when my allergy to latex progressed and I was going to have to change jobs to a hospital for a safer enviornment, the LTC agreed to make the switch. I was exstatic, I did not want to work in a hospital. Yes sometimes it hurts when you have known a resident and seen them every day for years and then they pass away. But at least you knew them and you can share stories with the vetrans. Like remember the day she pulled the fire alarm and when you saw her she was just clapping her hands and smiling and all the rucus. Those all 60 residents are the reason that I am still there. Interuptions are just the norm you just make a lot of lists. I hope you come over to the geriatric side

I also love LTC and knew that during my clinicals. The only warning that I have is that the signs and symptoms in the books are not always what the residents show you, but some of the MDs will take your gut feeling when they just don't act right. And research what nursing home you want to go to, check out what citations they had with their last survey, and compare it with local homes not all regions of surveys are created the same. But go for it we need more nurses that are excited about LTC

Our window just opened. The Feds came last year and they made State very nervous. These are surveyors that I have dealt with for 5 years and have called them for advice while not in a survey process. They were very snappy (actually unlike them)