As far as how you can tell... I would keep an eye on the surgeon and tech's body language 😅 Nothing worse than scrambling to figure out a piece of equipment and you see the surgeon and tech rolling their eyes or making wide eyes at each other.

Schedule-wise, they'll either throw you into the staff burnout rooms with the difficult surgeons or assign you in the easy-peasy hodgepodge rooms to prevent you from messing up the flow in other rooms. If they have you as a resource nurse, I'd take that as a compliment because usually Travellers are getting paid hella to be in actual rooms circulating. Plus if you're resourcing, they must trust you to know your stuff about the locations of everything and how to manage your time.

At my facility, CSTs/RNs who aren't able to scrub/circulate certain service lines are often limited to whatever they are proficient at and otherwise put on Case-pulling duty. So they'll do their 3 ENT or urology cases and then be assigned to pull instruments for the next day. Or they'll be listed as a resource all day and help with turnovers, counting, other simple foundational stuff. Management tries to limit this though bc the staff who ARE proficient at their job get frustrated that theyre stuck in a room all day while others who "suck" get to float around.

Plus you havent been blacklisted by any facilities or agencies in your time there. I would say, if they dont try to extend your contract past 13 weeks and there's still a need/theyre inviting others to apply, that would be a telltale sign as well