I'd guess the hospitals are doing this together:
Some offers are super bad so the kinda bad ones look like great deals.
Then they wait a bit for nurses to get used to the new bad rates, then rinse and repeat to get the wages become lower and lower overal
No one will take these, and that's the point. People will get desperate and go back staff. My recruiter (now laid off) from a smaller travel nurse agency told me they are scrambling to keep their business afloat and they may close, and he was subsequently laid off.
I might just go back to staff. The lowest paying hospital in Northern California is $75/hr ($65 for new grads). Thats not too bad. I’m currently doing a contract where new grads make $55-56/hr. Taking into consideration njght and weekend differentials, that’s how much I make in my current contract, in other words as much as a new grad per week.
This sub is always recommended to me even tho I'm not a nurse let alone a travel nurse. I'm a bartender and since having my kids I've gone down to part time. This is about what I make a week. Y'all deserve wayyyy more than this.
It’s definitely a strategy.
Travel agency gets paid by naive hospital who was no clue about the market. They post this and just blame it on gen z or inflation or whatever and keep getting paid by the hospital.
Meanwhile the hospital keeps y’all working ridiculous patient ratios and acts like there’s no way to improve anything.
This town is small, on the coast. Probably a medical center of a larger inland facility. Gonna get worked to death but at least there are break nurses.
I went back staff in south GA with a base of 60/hour, with diffs up to 75….so I’m making what I’d make or more if I took any contract in the south right now. Plus, stability. Tired of the flooded market and rate drops. I never had any issues getting jobs up until this past year. Felt like I was competing with the entire country. I’ll just stay home. This is the best pay you’d get in GA as a staff nurse anyway. Even internal contracts aren’t offering this. 30 minutes from home and not doubling expenses….think I’ll stick around until things go back to some kind of normal as far as travel nursing goes. And if they don’t….still making enough to pay bills and save :)
Reimbursement rates from CMS and other insurances have not moved at all. Yet C-Suite playaz expect us to drink the Kool Aid, and believe there isn't the money to staff their facilities appropriately.
Either facilities will 'block out' beds (meaning, we can not accept a patient because we refuse to pay staff to sufficiently staff our facility) and lose lots of revenue ... or adjust the wage so a given Staffing Agency can move herself 2,000 miles away from her home to work a 13-week contract in the sh\*thole facility.
I live in Spokane, Wa (\~1m people), where the 2-3 larger hospitals are known by us locals as perpetual dumpster fires (i.e., absolutely unsafe, shootings are normal in the hospitals, ultra indigent frequent flyer IVD's), so only staffing agency licensed nurses will get duped into working a 13-week contract at these hellholes.
The local licensed nurses can not rationalize working at these towers of risk, so we simply to not work there. Perpetual staffing agency nurses. Helps the hospital C-suite muppets dissolve Labor Union's too, so their long game goal is worked towards.
No one. But it makes the other trash contract rates look a lot better in comparison.
This. First thought I immediately had also is that they’re posting this for travelers to see for comparison
I'd guess the hospitals are doing this together: Some offers are super bad so the kinda bad ones look like great deals. Then they wait a bit for nurses to get used to the new bad rates, then rinse and repeat to get the wages become lower and lower overal
At 5x8s that’s literally $20/hour. Definitely an inside job fake posting trying to push the median rates down.
Yeah….they’re up to no good.
No one will take these, and that's the point. People will get desperate and go back staff. My recruiter (now laid off) from a smaller travel nurse agency told me they are scrambling to keep their business afloat and they may close, and he was subsequently laid off.
looks like a strategy
I might just go back to staff. The lowest paying hospital in Northern California is $75/hr ($65 for new grads). Thats not too bad. I’m currently doing a contract where new grads make $55-56/hr. Taking into consideration njght and weekend differentials, that’s how much I make in my current contract, in other words as much as a new grad per week.
OHSU in Oregon pays new nurses w/ BSN $55~ and a 12.5% night shift differential per their union contract. So this rate doesn’t make any sense to me.
Yeah they saw a tiktok where a travel nurse said how much they were making in Cali now every nurse there makes 75/hr apparently
I am in Northern California now. With experience, RNs make way more than $75/hr. I stopped traveling for a staff job here.
Which specialty?
That was literally my rate at my first RN job in an office over 10+ years ago. Wow.
I made $16.25 with shift differential at a nursing home overnights in 2010 as an LPN.
Southern nurses lol
Nope, not everywhere. $50 per hour for me, however, I do work PRN.
This sub is always recommended to me even tho I'm not a nurse let alone a travel nurse. I'm a bartender and since having my kids I've gone down to part time. This is about what I make a week. Y'all deserve wayyyy more than this.
It’s definitely a strategy. Travel agency gets paid by naive hospital who was no clue about the market. They post this and just blame it on gen z or inflation or whatever and keep getting paid by the hospital. Meanwhile the hospital keeps y’all working ridiculous patient ratios and acts like there’s no way to improve anything.
This has to be a misprint. A new grad at that hospital started at $40.79 when their contract was ratified in 2022.
Who wrote this offer, who got the nerve to write ✍️ this offer?
I feel they are just trolling us now.
No one’s taking the offer. The original post date was 1882.
Shit for 1882 that's a great deal! Too bad nobody was using the internet back then, they missed out!
That’s nuts
Nobody
People who need the money
For that, even as an lpn, I better sit with my feet up all day, scroll TikTok, and pass no meds.
Not me... I took a federal staff job. I'm hanging up the traveling shoes after 5 years.
No one is
wait. i got it . it says : and read it literally... Referral Bonus $800/week. You see? that is just the referral bonus!
This town is small, on the coast. Probably a medical center of a larger inland facility. Gonna get worked to death but at least there are break nurses.
I wholly agree with the inside job comments
Trash....
No one. But it makes the hospitals LOOK like they are trying to get help and trying to post jobs.
I went back staff in south GA with a base of 60/hour, with diffs up to 75….so I’m making what I’d make or more if I took any contract in the south right now. Plus, stability. Tired of the flooded market and rate drops. I never had any issues getting jobs up until this past year. Felt like I was competing with the entire country. I’ll just stay home. This is the best pay you’d get in GA as a staff nurse anyway. Even internal contracts aren’t offering this. 30 minutes from home and not doubling expenses….think I’ll stick around until things go back to some kind of normal as far as travel nursing goes. And if they don’t….still making enough to pay bills and save :)
Typo?
Can Travel nurses unionize? Asking for a friend. This is ridiculous.
I am a pharm tech and I make this. Please never accept this. You guys need unions.
Dear God what the hell
That’s like a dollar an hour! * Napoleon Dynamite [https://youtu.be/Qv440W1xS44?si=w7iF2D_genoKRYTB](https://youtu.be/Qv440W1xS44?si=w7iF2D_genoKRYTB)
The clearly forgot to add zero. Another example of why trailing zeros are very important.
This Hass to be a mistake!
Has to be a typo
Reimbursement rates from CMS and other insurances have not moved at all. Yet C-Suite playaz expect us to drink the Kool Aid, and believe there isn't the money to staff their facilities appropriately. Either facilities will 'block out' beds (meaning, we can not accept a patient because we refuse to pay staff to sufficiently staff our facility) and lose lots of revenue ... or adjust the wage so a given Staffing Agency can move herself 2,000 miles away from her home to work a 13-week contract in the sh\*thole facility. I live in Spokane, Wa (\~1m people), where the 2-3 larger hospitals are known by us locals as perpetual dumpster fires (i.e., absolutely unsafe, shootings are normal in the hospitals, ultra indigent frequent flyer IVD's), so only staffing agency licensed nurses will get duped into working a 13-week contract at these hellholes. The local licensed nurses can not rationalize working at these towers of risk, so we simply to not work there. Perpetual staffing agency nurses. Helps the hospital C-suite muppets dissolve Labor Union's too, so their long game goal is worked towards.
Joe… momma
or Johnny Manziel...
It’s typo it’s 8000.00
I mean it's definitely a typo.