Thanks for the response! That's really disheartening to hear your experience has always been this way. I think I will reach out to the other company. Do you have any experience canceling on an agency...
Hi everyone! I'm hoping someone can give me some advice. I'm a first time travel nurse going to NY to help with the crisis. After speaking to a few agencies, I decided to go with a smaller one that...
Skydancer, I'm having this exact same problem! I finally found a contract ICU job in NYC after nearly two weeks of looking. Problem is now they were real quick to get me to sign the contract, but...
alwaysnforever replied to laureena40's topic in General Nursing
Are these patients hooked up to monitoring with a BP cycling regularly? We do conscious sedation at times in my ICU, and do not automatically hook pts up to 02 just because they are being sedated. If...
alwaysnforever replied to Philly85's topic in Critical Care
Good question. I had this perception that most patients in the ICU were sedated as well, boy was I wrong.. lol. I work in MICU at a large teaching hospital. Lots of intubated patients, some tubed for...
Sorry to hear about your job troubles.. Sounds like a very frustrating place to be in. The cleaning would personally annoy me, but I do know that some small primary care practices have nurses do the...
I went through this process last year.. VERY ANNOYING! It got to the point where I was calling BON everyday for status updates. Getting the temp license was fairly easy and didn't take long at all....
Hi Silverlining15, you should send me a PM. I work on one of the floors mentioned! Ratios for medicine/tele - 3-4:1 during day (up to)5:1 nights/weekend. Just in case any one else looks at this...