healthsource global staffing

[hyacinth]

BEWARE!!! Read their nursing forum they are scandalous per their own nurses!!

[rnwithwings]

how do I find this forum re: healthsource global can you give me the link. Was considering going with them

[hyacinth]

I never worked with them so this isn't first hand info.I just read their forum by nurses. Maybe you should try them and see for yourself. I was going to work a srike but just could not. I use to belong to a union and I felt bad for even thinking about it

[newbie66]

I am somewhat concerned....have been processing paperwork to work for this company and sounds like nothing but baaaaad reviews. I am new to travel nursing, so anyone have any advice?

[Atlan]

I too belong to a union and can't seem to be able exploit others for my own gain. I was attracted by the high earning figure but recoiled from it knowing that I'll be a strike breaker.
For those new in the travel nursing business, my advice is to fine a facility that is non-profit to be safe. Otherwise you'll be working your butt off and be angry in the end. I worked for Western Medical Anaheim in the psych units and the experience left me cold. Lucky I had also worked for Stanford University (non-profit) in Palo Alto and the experience was the greatest of my life.
The difference between these two entities was the for-profit facilities offer low wages and benefits such that the staff there seldom stay long and staffing are usually by travel nurses, per diems, part-timers who don't know the units and patients but they will be paid their benefits in cash which then is adds more to the basic wages. They will then have a regular job at a better paid facility with better benefits doing a minimum of 60% of regular time so that they can work the other 40% in for-profit facilities to get the higher per hour pay.
To be fair though, not all staff there at Anaheim were bad, just that there were two very obese health care aids who had a hard time getting up from their seats and so pushed all the work to the remaining nurses increasing their workload tremendously. The managers there threw up their hands as those two obese ladies were old timers and they continuously eat and did little else. Only in America. Talk about therapeutic use of self! That is a laugh. Their presence were detrimental to the unit and the patients and staff working there.
One thing good at Anaheim though, we got to see the firework from Disneyland every night at exactly 9.37pm from the airing court of the unit. That was quite enjoyable, and the Pollo Loco chicken was great specially their giros at 2 for a dollar was the best.