Travel Nurse Background Check

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Hello fellow nurses. I am finishing up a travel assignment with a hospital in Southern California. The hospital wants to sign me on permanently which is great but I had an arrest a month ago (court date is two months away).

I am pretty sure the arrest will show on a background check which will be frowned upon. My question is will I need to take a background check with this hospital by signing on permanently since I I have already been working at the hospital as a traveller?

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Well, an arrest is not a conviction. I've been arrested twice, once for cutting across a farm adjacent to an interstate after I ran out of gas (trespassing but not charged). Once for obstructing traffic on Maui: I was on a bicycle having just landed at the airport on a back road. No one was obstructed nor slowed, and the officer involved in the complaint was yelling at me on the loudspeaker to move over to the right while he was completely in my lane aside of me and I was on the white line (all charges dropped - road me around in his car for 45 minutes while they were trying to figure out what to charge me with - no Hawaii bicycle tax paid was the other charge). Would either of those stop a hospital from hiring me? Hasn't so far.

Most background checks do not show arrests anyway. Depending on what they were for. I'd be far more worried about your court date again depending on the charges.

But to your question, what would you do if you were a hospital? Trust the background check of a contractor with a vested interest in placing their employee? Kind of answers itself.

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Hello fellow nurses. I am finishing up a travel assignment with a hospital in Southern California. The hospital wants to sign me on permanently which is great but I had an arrest a month ago (court date is two months away).

I am pretty sure the arrest will show on a background check which will be frowned upon. My question is will I need to take a background check with this hospital by signing on permanently since I I have already been working at the hospital as a traveller?

Nobody knows the policies of the hospital you're considering signing on with. We don't even know what hospital it is. Consider asking them. They're the only ones who can give you a definitive answer.

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Any update? I'm in the same boat. I have some interviews coming up but have a DUI pending a trial date, so it's not a conviction yet. Wondering if the arrest will disqualify me from getting a job.

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Husband has a pending assault case and tried tl

sign on permanent and they denied him for having an open case. This is in texas

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