Travel Nurses!!

Editorial Team / Admin · Mar 23, 2021

We moved your topic to the Travel Nursing forum for the best response.

NedRN · Mar 23, 2021

One thing I treasure the most at a facility is a list of staff and physician names. Most units have an internal contact sheet so that secretaries or staffing can contract staff by phone. Mind you, I work in the operating room where such resources take on extra value in that I have to enter everyone's names into the case record. Still, such a resource can assist in learning your peer's names, right down the important staff such as housekeepers. I save such lists to remind myself of the people I worked with, and often travelers come back to the same facility so that list helps get them off to a fast start on repeats.

Door codes are probably best done on personal cheat notes that can be destroyed once they have entered a traveler's memory (even better is to upgrade tech and use ID badges). Seems to me that publishing code lists causes security concerns, especially to places like locker rooms and med rooms. It's a shame, but I think every facility suffers from theft and even after incidents fail to change security codes.

I would also poll your existing travelers. They can tell you what they struggled with initially. Consider exit interviews if you are interested enhancing workplace culture, pt flow, and so on - travelers have seen many ways of doing things and cross pollination is good for healthcare (yet it is really hard to have an impact during the course of assignment). Many issues are unique to a facility or unit. Online, we would just be able to tell you of issues we have faced at other facilities and may not be relevant to you.