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Sorry to hear about your bad experience. It sounds like a top notch facility with bottom rung management and physicians.
Fair warning....If a company offers you a "fabulous" opportunity in Beverly Hills/Century City RUN.......I repeat RUN....Sure it's got the latest technology for doctors and computer charting for doctors. Sure it's newly remodelled with Wolfgang Puck meals and free uniforms. Oh and the wonderful internet connection and satellite TV available in rooms, that rarely function. So if you are lucky enough to actually work your 36 hours a week you will be treated like an endentured servant not only but the doctors but the clients and their devoted families. As a professional committing 6 months and 48 hours a week only to woken 2 mornings a week at 4:30 am to be told the census is low and you are not needed is rather disgusting. I am fed up with the way white collar professional RN's are treated by this hospital. Counting the days till it's over as all of my fellow travel nurse collegues are is our favorite topic of discussion these days in the breakroom.
Unhappy Traveller at Century City Doctors Hospital, Century City Beverly Hills,CA
Sorry to hear about your bad experience. It sounds like a top notch facility with bottom rung management and physicians.
A lot of hospitals are now allowed to cancel travelers. Currently at Saddleback Memorial Hospital Laguna Hills who have over 55 travelers are allowed to cancel their travelers once a pay period.
Most contracts do not mention cancelation and it only comes to light after the RN has started the contract. The only thing I can suggest that you have the words Guaranteed hours included in all your future contracts.
Word of caution. Most contracts contain wording Housing benefit is based on you working the minium hours and most contracts contain verbage that $X per hour will be deducted from your paycheck for hours under the minium hours not worked. This not only applies to hours not worked due to Professional call off or sick but also facility cancel. So don't take the word of your recruiter when he or she tells you that it implies to the traveler cancel or sick call. SO ENSURE THAT THE FOLLOWING IS INCLUDED :
In the event that the Professional is canceled by the facility, you are free from any housing charges as a result of working less than the minium hours due to facility and the Company is not authorized to deduct for houseing in the event of facility cancel.
Re: Professional??? or Endentured Servant?? or DoorMat???
[COLOR="Blue"][COLOR="SeaGreen"]I spoke to the recruiter from Doctor's Hospital last summer.....promised all sorts of "state of the art" everything.....I looked at their website....and got a bad feeling...........if it's a doctor's hospital, run by doctor's for the privileged..I wouldn't last too long........before I would tell someone to KMA!
And as I recall, the nurses wear white uniforms?? lmao! Done that about 25 years ago. I hung up my white uniforms, stockings and dang cap and don't miss them a bit!
Thanks for confirming my fears and settling my curiosity!
judi
I agree Judi....didn't become a nurse to function as a maid. Won't empty garbage either.
And I don't clean up after messy patients or their messy family menbers. If they choose to live in a pigsty, let'em. I only darken that doorstep when necessary. I'm not talking about just spilling a cup of juice- I'm talking about potato chips and cookies on the floor so thick it crunches and sticks to your shoes. And I haven't work my cap since pinning ceremony! Thanks for the info on that particular hospital.
This hospital filed for bankruptcy last week. They did not pay their employees for 3 weeks. See story here: Century City Doctors Hospital Files For Bankruptcy - Health News Story - KNBC | Los Angeles
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