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Thank you for the response. I will do just that today!

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 after you sign a contract? I still have no confirmation or start date from the hospital. Thank you and stay safe!!

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 was able to work with me on preferences and pay. Telephone interview with hospital Wednesday, submitted all paper work on Friday, and received my contract on Saturday (this is a rapid response contract). Signed it Monday morning after clarifying a few things with the lawyer - start date listed as ASAP. Was told I would be getting learning modules same day (Monday) from hospital. I never got them and stayed in contact with the agency throughout the week regarding this. On Friday I asked for followup and they said they would call me back but never did. I got a email late Friday night from someone in the office saying they would submit me Monday... I'm starting to feel that this company might not be the best. The recruiter hasn't answered my call since I signed paperwork - have had to call the main office and speak to whoever. Anytime I ask for info about anything they never know and never get back to me.. HELP! I want to tell them I don't want to go forward with this and find another contract. Is there any reason why I shouldn't? Sorry this is long winded.. I just want to be in NY to help and am frustrated with this contract. Thank you!!

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 it's been a week and still nothing. They told me this was a rapid response contract. When I spoke to the hospital admin for the interview they told me it was for immediate start. :( I'm also feeling so annoyed and useless. I'm dying to get in there and help out.

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 the 02 starts to fall, then we hook them up. 0.25-.5 of versed is a pretty small amount and I think most patients would be okay without supplemental 02. I also think that its sufficient for the defib/crash cart to be just on the unit, not in the room. On a side note, I think it's interesting the providers use just versed. I'm used to seeing versed and fentanyl, or fentanyl by itself.

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 only 24 hrs some for weeks until they get trached. The majority of our patients are not sedated. My hospital is very big on preventing 'icu delirium'.. some will have continuous sedation if they are constantly fighting the ventilator. Others will have intermittent sedation (ie. usually an order for fentanyl q5 min prn for a rass of 0 or resp compromise). I'd say about 50% of the vented patients have some sort of delirium and are not communicating, but the other half are able to communicate via writing or typing on a cell phone/hospital provided ipad.

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 cleaning. As far as the shot thing, it sounds to me like you're probably nervous. You should have gotten some instruction in school, and YouTube is a great resource. As long as you know appropriate sites for the age of the kid, I think you should just go for it. The nurse you're with probably won't do anything other than just stand there and look. Be confident in yourself! All this said, if the job isn't for you then quit. You're fortunate enough to have your old job still. You don't have to put this job on your resume, and other jobs more than likely would never find out. I worked at a snf for 2 whole days before quitting because I knew it would never work out.life goes on :)

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. BON and the fingerprint place are in this run down looking mall in catoonsville/baltimore (somewhere on the city line). As for getting the perm license, MD BON claimed they never got my paperwork (2 months after I sent it).. so I had it faxed to them and called everyday to ask about it. Got it taken care of within a week after I started that. lol. Stay on them.

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 thread and wonders: medicine IMC (MPCU): 2-3:1