Sainthood for going to NYC

LOL, tell it like it is.

I find it interesting to see all of the travelers who are annoyed about contracts getting cancelled or shortened. I've seen a few posts around here in which the posters seem to feel entitled to that super-high crisis pay for a longer period than what they're getting.

From what I've seen, travel positions are drying up because hospitals are trying to redeploy their own sidelined staff before hiring travelers; honestly, that's the way it should be. It isn't fair for furloughed employees to sit home without pay or burning through PTO while travelers make crisis pay. I'm sure it's annoying a traveler to know that there are lucrative contracts out there and not to get them, but current staff should take priority.

13 hours ago, Emergent said:

I did a Covid crisis job, and I did it for the money, primarily.

How bad was it?

13 hours ago, Emergent said:

34 minutes ago, lifelearningrn said:

How bad was it?

I didn't do this in NYC. It was a good experience that paid well. It wasn't the hellhole I've read about, just an ordinary ER trying to cope with ever changing protocols and uncertainty.

The offers that I got for covid jobs in New York mentioned "great" pay (5K per week plus housing), but they also mentioned working seven 12 hour shifts. I don't care if you are giving me my own personal jet, mansion bigger than Trump's, and a harem of the most beautiful women who have ever lived I never work more than four days per week as an ICU nurse under ANY circumstances. There is nothing more important to me than sleep and when I work "back to backs" I usually get about six hours sleep far less than the 8.5 to 9.0 I need to feel at my best to say nothing of having time to exercise. Thus, to me these offers were never "real" if they were based on a crazy amount of hours. I have had "traveler" RN friends in California earn that much during "normal" times by working four or five days per week.

14 hours ago, Emergent said:

I notice that nurses going on assignments to NYC imply they are altruistic heros, going to the frontline to help.

I did a Covid crisis job, and I did it for the money, primarily. I get it, the admiration of the public is great. But don't try to fool me that $5000-$10000 a week wasn't the prime motivation.

And, don't complain about the lack of PPE or the rough conditions of your assignment. They call it hazard pay for a reason...

I think lack of PPE is a legitimate reason to complain, but I'm with you on the other stuff. The face-shield selfies, break-room group photos in masks and gloves, and dancing nurse videos are getting harder to stomach, too.

I don't know why the nurses going for altruistic reasons do not go into nursing homes. We need help more than hospitals do.

4 hours ago, Runsoncoffee99 said:

I don't know why the nurses going for altruistic reasons do not go into nursing homes. We need help more than hospitals do.

Because they aren’t offering $5,000 a week. All the more evidence that it isn’t as *altruistic* as advertised.