traveling to Beebe in Lewes, DE

NedRN · Mar 26, 2016

The more traffic the better. There is nothing stopping anyone from adding to a conversation, not me, and not you. There used to be a much larger travel nurse forum on a different host (still is) that got literally a hundred times more posts than this travel forum. I stopped posting there several years ago until just recently. During that time, this forum's traffic; visitors, thread and post counts, with me posting regularly have gone up dramatically while the other forum has shrunk to nothing (a combination of a prickly owner, FB's popularity, and me leaving). That's the facts. I think resources for travelers like this one is valuable to our community and I choose to support it. If you or anyone else find another resource better for you, fine!

As far as good manners go, insulting a host (Allnurses) and their guests (me and everyone else posting here including you) is always wrong. Pointing out what could go better is OK. I'm not insulted about what FaceBook has to offer, I merely offered my very mild opinion that the non-threaded conversations there are not as useful as standard forums, nothing more. I find FaceBook conversations to difficult to follow unless it is a personal page (which is after all what it was designed to be). That's a personal opinion and I say it here. It would be rude to go on a Facebook page and say not to bother with FaceBook travel pages as they are inferior to AN.

In any case, manners aside, such statements are not true. Both venues are useful, in different ways. I have pointed folks to FaceBook's premium recruiting page here a couple of times in the recent past.

rnnluvnit2006 · Mar 27, 2016

Since you are both traveling, why don't one of you take the housing through the company and the other take the stipend and split it...that way you have a place to stay and you still have the $$$

laughoutloud8 · Mar 27, 2016

As far as good manners go, insulting a host (Allnurses) and their guests (me and everyone else posting here including you) is always wrong. Pointing out what could go better is OK. I'm not insulted about what FaceBook has to offer, I merely offered my very mild opinion that the non-threaded conversations there are not as useful as standard forums, nothing more. I find FaceBook conversations to difficult to follow unless it is a personal page (which is after all what it was designed to be). That's a personal opinion and I say it here. It would be rude to go on a Facebook page and say not to bother with FaceBook travel pages as they are inferior to AN.
In any case, manners aside, such statements are not true. Both venues are useful, in different ways. I have pointed folks to FaceBook's premium recruiting page here a couple of times in the recent past.

I did not feel insulted in anyway. Nothing that was said bothered me. The poster was just frank and straight to the point. No offense should have been taken. People from different parts of the USA deliver messages differently, and that is cool because, it is what makes us, us. Try seeking to understand anothers point of view before trying to convince someone of your own point of view.

craizy_man · May 24, 2017

experienced nurses need not apply, PACU

really nice coworkers, truly amazed how nice they are in the face of what they have to deal with on a daily basis. theyre overworked, understaffed, leaned on to work way more than other hospitals because of that leading to their personal time being taken advantage of by mostly working their full time day shifts with a steady stream of overnights and weekends, when hired for a simple day shift with on-call.

unbelievably slow HR process to get hired, took months to get everything in order and I have a very basic, simple application with great references and experience. My unit comprised of many soon-to-be retirees, meaning many of the large issues at hand turned a blind eye because of complacency and impending retirement.

I was misinformed about what my schedule would be on the interview versus what the reality is, which I spoke out on. Patient care standards are very low at times and many docs pass the buck around, by the time anyone gets around to helping the acute urgent issue at hand the patients fall thru those cracks causing them to be worse off then they needed to be, had someone acted faster. Safety of patients, and standards of care came into question weekly, I approached management and HR, unfortunately the hospital has high census, meaning they have to deal with that first ensuring the flow of patients in and out, causing many of these issues to fall to the wayside and only to re-emerge doing urgent situations, which happens.

large teaching hospitals have a lot checks and balances, standards in place, rankings to consider and are on the offensive, setting high standards. This hospital seems to be running on the defensive, if ever they can catch up. Manager seems to be a middleman, without having much executive power. It's not magnet, and they have a higher census coming in then their own capacity even allows for causing patients to back up in the ED and any unit that has rooms especially the post sugical unit. They will attempt to alter acuity of a patient to move them to a room that's available, even though that patient may require closer monitoring then that unit provides.

Compensation is no more better than nearby. i would try not to be a patient here.

if you hire someone with a lot of differing hospital experience, it would behoove you to listen to their concerns and show a plan of change. Communicate with your employees, deliver on promises, and be visible. I was hired because of my breadth of experience, only to have that backfire