Telemetry Nurse
Providence, Rhode Island
Rhode Island Hospital

Unionized hospital, nurses are friendly & helpful in every ICU, very accommodating when needing to call out sick

Float to another unit almost every other shift, very very high cost of living with very little housing/rental accommodations available, city/buildings/rentals are old and dusty and worn down, hospital / policies are outdated and old, poor communication (never alerting before shift when floating to another unit, getting patient admissions with no warning or report, multiple instances of having to transfer a patient urgently with no warning or preparation, poor communication between medical specialties consulting on the same patient), as a travel nurse you have to pay for parking (even at night) or park 3-5 blocks away or shuttle to the hospital (and sometimes the shuttle isn’t running…), blizzard conditions and freezing cold temps in the winter (in a small city with very narrow steep roads and little parking options, your car will be covered in a 4-8ft snow drift with no way to get to work or drive)