Travel Nurse Offer Cancellation

[ronodis]

Hello,

Can a hospital make a travel position offer, via a travel agency, to a travel nurse, to which the nurse agrees and accepts, but several days later, the hospital cancels the offer due to their hiring of a permanent position employee?

Thank you.

[NedRN]

In short, yes. One reality is that the traveler is not the agency client, the hospital is. So even if contractually not allowed, such cancelations are tolerated to maintain the client relationship (without which the agency will have no work).

Not that what happens in the background really matter much to you. What is important to you is your contract with the agency. I think you will find a lot of loopholes protecting the agency from you suing them for contractual damages. Even if not (super rare), it is a daunting task to file suit against an agency and most travelers will simply move on and switch to Plan B (which is why you should always be signed up fully with more than one agency).

[rentalnurse, RN]

Was cancelled once when staff wanted to go to nights. Of course there was some lame azz excuse because they couldn't say why. 

[Mrsexylegs]

It depends on your contract and the agency. 

 

Once worked for an agency that had a contract that had it in it the contract should the health care company not wish to continue the contract with the travel nurse if terms were not broken still had to pay. (Which happened to me so I got the full assignment funds but couldn't work at another assignment until it was finished. So 8 weeks) had another contract with the same agency where they didn't have that clause so it was as if nothing happened (luckily I didn't go to the site yet)