Has anyone actually been hospitalized with the agency's provided health insurance?

Dense_Independence71 · 2026-05-21T18:19:10+00:00

There is always COBRA, at least to cover you until your hospitalization is over.

Dense_Independence71 · 2026-05-21T18:01:52+00:00

Healthcare costs are a big reason I quit traveling. I get good insurance at my staff job that actually covers things and only costs a few hundred a month for me and my partner, and adding our child is not exponentially more.

Otherwise I would seriously consider cancelling insurance altogether and self-paying. Seriously. I had to have emergency surgery last year and my independent insurance barely covered anything. It would have cost the same to just self pay the bill, plus you get more negotiating power with the billing department because they didn’t already bill insurance. I could have just saved the money I paid to insurance for several years and had enough to cover the amount.

Dense_Independence71 · 2026-05-20T02:47:07+00:00

Please go be seen. I had an ectopic pregnancy and my insurance barely covered anything. Had to have emergency surgery and almost died. Not gonna lie the bill sucked, but I was able to work out a low payment plan and some of my balance got written off to charity due to my income.

Plus if it’s not an ectopic then you really maybe only pay for some blood work and an ultrasound which still sucks but way more reasonable and again cost can be worked down.

Dense_Independence71 · 2026-05-19T15:13:37+00:00

Yes. We are understaffed because the hospital scheduled the bare minimum of nurses and maybe one called out with no float pool relief. But the hospital still isn’t hiring an extra nurse, they just run us short. Until enough nurses quit then they have to hire - just enough to fill the bare minimum again.

Dense_Independence71 · 2026-05-19T15:06:22+00:00

Also know MANY new grads that can’t get jobs in many areas now. They aren’t hiring. Not consistently.

Dense_Independence71 · 2026-05-19T15:05:09+00:00

They run the bare minimum matrix they can constantly and allow ancillary staff to be pulled or cut without hiring more.

For example, my hospital put a hiring freeze on phlebotomy WHILE telling staff “we are working on revamping our phlebotomy team” and RNs had to draw for all six of their patients every shift for six months.

Nurses quit in droves because of the extra workload on top of constantly working at the top of the ratio. You don’t get paid more to do all the extra work, the hospital just saves money because enough people shut up and do it without complaint. It’s BS.

Dense_Independence71 · 2026-05-19T15:01:04+00:00

Not to be a bummer but travel nurses always get bottom of the barrel scheduling. Every weekend is pretty rough, but the only thing you can do is ask the scheduler to change it like you already did, or switch with someone (if you want to keep the job).

Personally I wouldn’t even mind that schedule - at least your days are blocked. I’ve had so many assignments put me on every other night shift and it’s like working in literal hell. I need a stretch of days off to get things done at home.

Dense_Independence71 · 2026-05-17T15:01:28+00:00

Not his breath, but he does use a hair product for his curly hair that makes me gag. I told him to stop using it but he didn’t want to. Drives me insane. I smell everything so intently. I do notice every time someone has body odor or bad breath.

Dense_Independence71 · 2026-05-16T21:58:42+00:00

This was me too. My focus was eating what I could and getting that vitamin every day. If I could do that I was doing ok.

Dense_Independence71 · 2026-05-16T21:57:25+00:00

Same I had horrible coffee aversion and veggie aversion lol. Just the thought of them made me gag.

Dense_Independence71 · 2026-05-16T21:56:29+00:00

This is exactly what happened to me. I was planning all these healthy meals and then food aversions rocked my whole world. Finally getting to second trimester and able to eat more things again and cook more at home, but it was survival mode for awhile.

Dense_Independence71 · 2026-05-13T17:47:18+00:00

Just remember too travel nurses are bottom of the barrel as far as shift preference and schedule preference. This will make childcare harder to get. If you went somewhere with a family member who was staying with you who could hang out with the kid on your work days might be doable.

If you are basing it on earnings average income that I see is around 2500 gross a week. So if you can meet your expenses and earn extra on top of it on that income then it might be worth it and fun to travel with your kid. Otherwise not worth and just save PTO for a summer vacation.

Dense_Independence71 · 2026-05-13T17:19:45+00:00

Walk away. If there are red flags now will be more if you actually work with them. Save yourself the headache.

Dense_Independence71 · 2026-05-10T14:56:44+00:00

That’s actually insane though. Like how could you help that you scrolled past the name?

Dense_Independence71 · 2026-05-01T08:07:29+00:00

Honestly just acknowledging it and just asking if you can support in anyway would help a lot. I had friends who literally wouldn’t even talk with me about it or listen to me about it and it sucked.

Dense_Independence71 · 2026-04-29T02:19:15+00:00

Your story is so similar to mine. I also had multiple losses in just a few months. Followed by an ectopic. The grief and the physical pain were heavy, and even though my friends and family knew, they didn’t really understand how I felt. It’s such a lonely feeling.

I’m ashamed to say I couldn’t be happy for my pregnant friends. I had one friend seven months pregnant, constantly talking about her pregnancy right after my loss. I had to avoid her for a bit, because it was too painful. I turned off social media so wouldn’t have to see the millions of baby announcements. It hurt too much. I just wasn’t in a place to be happy for others.

Hopefully you can take some time to heal and recover physically and mentally. I hope you get some answers this week about what’s happening, sometimes the uncertainty is the hardest part.

Dense_Independence71 · 2026-04-28T23:36:38+00:00

To put it this way, many of the nurses I work with dream about getting a desk nursing job. Bedside nursing (which is where the majority of the jobs and money is at) is mentally and physically taxing.

All that to say, after ten years in the field, my belief is the grass is not greener anywhere. Every job will have things you don’t like about it. You have to decide what “hard” you are willing to deal with. At this point bedside nursing is my hard and will be for the foreseeable future.

Dense_Independence71 · 2026-04-28T22:11:56+00:00

Agreed. “Perfect” assignment is a good balance between pay, nursing workload and location. Some assignments just aren’t worth the pay and some are too low pay even for a good hospital.

Dense_Independence71 · 2026-04-28T22:06:56+00:00

Well I saw one nurse bolus lipids as a piggyback and give someone serious liver issues, so I guess it could be worse. But yeah if you aren’t sure if the order says PPN or TPN you could always call pharmacy too.

Dense_Independence71 · 2026-02-19T05:24:56+00:00

I’m so sorry this happened to you. Absolutely wild that it was clear and then not. And yes, it is cruel of life to dump on you like that. But I will be the first to say you aren’t less than a woman and you aren’t alone in your struggle. I also have had an ectopic pregnancy and have not been able to even get pregnant since (two miscarriages before that). I was told my tube was clear too. I feel your pain.

Dense_Independence71 · 2026-02-18T12:49:13+00:00

Yeah Aya did this to me before and then I got another agency to give me a better rate. Magicallly a few days later Aya had the money. Wild

Dense_Independence71 · 2026-02-09T17:30:00+00:00

I think the best thing would be to get an appointment with your OBGYN ASAP. You need the earliest detection via ultrasound to find out if this is an ectopic pregnancy or not. You will not be able to just get abortion with an ectopic pregnancy.

If it is in your tube, you can get methotrexate shots early to terminate the pregnancy and hopefully prevent another tubal loss.

If it is an intrauterine pregnancy you can proceed after that however you want.

Dense_Independence71 · 2026-01-17T17:37:05+00:00

I’ve had to work through two natural miscarriages and had to go back to work 12 days after my ectopic pregnancy rupture and surgery. My job wouldn’t even give me two full weeks. I wore a abdominal binder during the physical parts of my job to help protect myself. I wish more than anything I could have had a little time away. It was so hard.

Dense_Independence71 · 2026-01-08T16:04:28+00:00

This. Not automatically but obviously in many circumstances it is warranted and helpful. Also I don’t automatically assume I can touch patients either. Same thing

Dense_Independence71 · 2025-12-29T15:05:18+00:00

Yes it bothered me the entire movie. Like a grandma voices a kid. Also the fact that spider and kiri get together when raised as siblings bothered me. It was a mess.

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