Traveling in Dallas Ft Worth

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I have some friends and family in the Dallas, Ft Worth Arlington Area and I am considering starting my Travel nursing there as it will be easy to pay for housing for me. Any suggestions on good quality hospitals for travel nurses there. I am an Tele/Oncology/PCU nurse background. Any input would be greatly appreciated. Thank you for your time.

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I am not a travel nurse, so I do not know if they participate in the program, but Baylor University Medical Center is THE best hospital in the area.

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I actually have my first travel position in Fort Worth at Baylor All Saints in the ICU. They are looking for additional travelers as one of our traveler'a contract ends mid April and she declined an extension. Idk about your experience areas. Best I can say is ask a recruiter. And ask multiple companies.

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Specializes in Med-Surge, Tele, PCU, CVICU, NSICU.

Supplemental Health Care based in Fort Worth is an AMAZING agency in the Dallas Fort Worth area. They are caring, and hands on and they work FAST to find you an assignment. If you end up talking to them let me know I'll give you my recruiters name and number. They also negotiated higher pay for me twice when I wasn't happy.

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It is good they were willing to negotiate pay. But you do understand that almost certainly means that they were low balling to begin with? Or had some other good reason to raise your pay. It is very unlikely that the hospital raised the bill rate twice for a commodity short term nurse unless you have a very hot specialty.

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Specializes in Med-Surge, Tele, PCU, CVICU, NSICU.
It is good they were willing to negotiate pay. But you do understand that almost certainly means that they were low balling to begin with? Or had some other good reason to raise your pay. It is very unlikely that the hospital raised the bill rate twice for a commodity short term nurse unless you have a very hot specialty.

The first time they negotiated me a higher pay rate. The second time they negotiated me a higher rate of pay for orientation since this hospital system typically only pays half pay rate for orientation.

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Yup. Nothing to do with the hospital. You simply squeezed more money out of the agency. Congrats!

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Specializes in Med-Surge, Tele, PCU, CVICU, NSICU.
Yup. Nothing to do with the hospital. You simply squeezed more money out of the agency. Congrats!

I never said it was. I said the agency negotiated pay for me

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It is a semantics question. Negotiating pay for you implies something different than negotiating with you, or you were able to negotiate with your agency to me. Sorry about that.

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Specializes in Med-Surge, Tele, PCU, CVICU, NSICU.
It is a semantics question. Negotiating pay for you implies something different than negotiating with you, or you were able to negotiate with your agency to me. Sorry about that.

Okay sure. Whatever helps you sleep at night.

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You can negotiate with most agencies, but very few are willing to negotiate extra money for you from the hospital. I have no trouble sleeping, I was just describing the source of my confusion with your language. Others may get the wrong idea, as did I.

Again, congrats.

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I've worked at Baylor for 2 1/2 years, and it's a really great hospital system. However, they don't want to hire travelers unless they absolutely have to. I've heard good things about Presby Dallas and Medical City Dallas too.

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