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  1. Two 13-week travel assignments, at once - feasible?

    Why ?! It’s not possible and even if it was it would be illegal. But first of all you would make more working one and collecting overtime for more hours you would stick into the second job. Did you...
  2. Thinking of Traveling. Pay better than what I am making?

    What did you
  3. Help!!!!!!!

    I hope you went home by your son. These hospitals and agencies don’t give a crap about any of us. It’s a pay check, that keeps getting more and more difficult to get and be happy with. I hope you...
  4. Split-Shift Floating

    I am so glad things are better for
  5. NP Salary vs. RN salary

    I am a travel RN with guaranteed 36 hours per week. Can't be called off. I have benefits and retirement in Travel. I guess I should consider myself lucky for having put in the time and effort to be in...
  6. NP Salary vs. RN salary

    Above Quote::::I've received 4 job offers as a new NP and the hourly ranges are $40.00 -$48.00 an hour = $83K to 99K with no weekends, no holidays and a generaous bonus structure. I don't know of any...
  7. Pre-employment physicals: Who pays?

    No , the blood test will not differentiate between active and latent Tb. Only a CXR confirms this with sputum culture, if I remember
  8. Pre-employment physicals: Who pays?

    One place that I worked, they did the quantiferon TB blood test. Well, first of all I was pretty sure the idiots did it wrong because I have never had it show positive prior. But of course who knows....
  9. Pre-employment physicals: Who pays?

    Agencies pays for physicals, lab tests, immunization you may need. Agency also reimbursed for any license, acls, bls, you may need. If yours isn't, find another one! With acls bls and licenses, I have...
  10. Wannabe travel nurse

    Where is your tax home base, primary residence and license currently? If you do not have a primary residence, you do not qualify for travel nursing. I hope this answers the
  11. Advice on becoming a travel nurse

    Have you been in contact with agencies? Out of curiosity, have you bounced this off your nursing instructor? What do they say? Have you had contact with traveling nurses during clinical? What have you...
  12. Advice on becoming a travel nurse

    This is a personal choice for you. Different agencies have different requirements. Most are 2 years to travel. I have seen some that advertise one year, I personally think that is absurd, unless you...
  13. To stay or go- traveling while pregnant.

    If I were you, working staff on an L&D unit with FMLA... I would stay staff, go to OBGYN and hospital that I am familiar with, take my leave and find an assignment at that time. Why not take your...
  14. Shaking my head

    Hello! I only wish to go back to paper charting... I came in this way and had more time to spend with patients and my documentation described the patient and scenario way better. I could actually open...
  15. How much weekly pay should I aim for?

    I used to be like that , before and during my first years of travel. After a few years, here is my input: make a list of places you would like to go. Look to your choices and decide on an assignment....
  16. Split-Shift Floating

    Report this to your recruiter, he/she should be able to help. If not talk to the nursing supervisor and explain to them the safety concerns. Once you address the issues of safety with them, they will...
  17. Question about travel nursing

    I think it's a personal choice. It depends on the individual. With that said, I have been traveling for four years now and was an RN for 6 years, RN tech for two years prior, and CNA/unit coordinator...
  18. PHN in corrections?

    I have worked as a nurse in both a prison as a correctional health RN and as a Public Health RN. These were 2 different jobs at different times. One was for the state the other was under the county....
  19. NICU Travel RN

    Hello! I would first ask yourself what is the main reason you are gravitating towards becoming a travel nurse? It appears that you are happy in NICU and you do not float in the hospital that you...
  20. Have you tried travel
  21. The patient on the floor without clothes and a bed covered in poop, pee, and blood. An Iv out with the patient and linen covered in blood. A smeared floor where the patient exited the bed of poop,...
  22. First Travel Assignment... with Animals

    Omg! Love your spirit. I find it hard enough for me to find reasonable housing for my 13 weeks, ( then again I only usually extend once if that before going to a new
  23. Living in a RV instead of apartment while travel nursing?

    I am considering rv as well. Housing is extremely expensive I'm finding in the last year, not to mention difficulty finding an apartment that will lease for 3 months. Problem is when I look at the...
  24. 2016 Salary thread

    If Wisconsin paid half of that, I'd go back into Public
  25. is my pay rate fair

    I checked it out, no she has only worked at this company as a nurse