First Call Nursing Services believes in the value of our employees and their contributions towards the achievement of our company’s mission. We have over 30 years of experience in placing well qualified healthcare professionals in rewarding medical jobs.
Per Diem
If you are interested in a job that gives you the flexibility of when and where you want to work, then per diem is for you.
As a per diem staff, you will be offered same-day shifts, or blocked booking available for a few weeks out. FCNS has friendly and experienced staffing coordinators that will help you find a great per diem job in your area.
Travel Assignments
If you are interested in venturing somewhere new to gain valuable life and work experience with the flexibility offered by temporary commitments, then travel healthcare staffing is for you.
Our friendly and experienced FCNS staffing coordinators will work with you to find the right travel assignment.
Allied Healthcare Assignments
FCNS can help allied healthcare workers find per diem and travel assignments in various settings including doctor’s offices, clinics, hospitals, longterm-care facilities.
- Registered Nurses
- Licensed Vocational Nurses
- Certified Nursing Assistants
- Physical Therapists
- Medical Laboratory Professional
Benefits
- Competitive Pay
- Weekly Pay
- Holiday Pay
- Professional liability
- Workman’s compensation
Benefits
- Competitive Pay
- Weekly Pay
- Holiday Pay
- Professional liability
- Workman’s compensation
- Tax Advantage Housing- Consult with a qualified tax professional to verify if you qualify
Benefits
- Competitive Pay
- Weekly Pay
- Holiday Pay
- Professional liability
- Workman’s compensation
- Tax Advantage Housing- Consult with a qualified tax professional to verify if you qualify
First Call Staffing Solutions Specialties
- Emergency Department
- Intensive Care Unit/Critical Care
- Labor and Delivery
- Post-Partum/Mother Baby
- Telemetry
- Medical Surgical Unit
- Pediatrics
- Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
- Pediatric Intensive Care Unit
- Post Anesthesia Care Unit
- Operating Room
- Direct Observation Unit/Step-Down/ Progressive Care Unit
The Pros and Cons of Per Diem Nursing & Contract Nursing
How does it sound to you to choose your own schedule, never work a weekend, never work a holiday? If this sounds good, nursing per diem might be right for you. In fact, there are no “minimum requirements” for the amount of shifts you need to work in per-diem nursing. Another benefit of this kind of nursing may be the opportunity to bounce with limited processing into more than one hospital network. This last benefit only applies if there are many local area clients in the organization you are with who have plenty of nursing jobs available. It is something contingent nurses workers obviously can not do.
The greatest drawback is that the per diem nurse is the first to be cancelled if patient count declines or new staff are recruited. And most nurses who work per diem are searching for side shifts or even some extra jobs. When you are Per Diem in a large hospital network (less large hospitals are influenced by census fluctuations) many Per Diem nurses will get regular full-time jobs if they are flexible in their availability for scheduling.
Contract nurses are designed for nurses who are expected to work and have full-time hours and/or benefits. Hospitals / facilities must guarantee that contract nurses are granted hours (some may have very strict cancelation limits). Facilities can ask for weekend and/or holiday commitments, in exchange for the guaranteed hours. Personnel nurses are canceled in nearly all cases before a contract nurse. Contracts guarantee full time hours which typically last for 4 , 8, 13 weeks or in some cases 26 weeks. When a contract has been completed the nurse is free to take time off (maybe a month or two in Hawaii?). Can you imagine a staff nurse saying to their supervisor: “Tomorrow I’m going to Hawaii, and will be back in two months. Will I have favour, keep my position? I don’t have to tell you this chances are slim to nil.
This is their truth in the contrat nursing world. Several nurses are terrified about breaking the deal. Are they jobless? The short answer is: very rarely. Despite the nursing crisis already played out, many nurses work jobs in the same facility for years. The greatest drawback of contracting nursing is that there is an assumption that the nurse must stick to the changes in the same manner that the facility workers do. Calling offs is frowned upon. When the nurse has to take a sick day, it is considered good practice for a nurse to try to make up a change. The other downside is that obligations are basically usually a two weekend a month. Furthermore, there could be some holiday obligations in some-but not all-situations.
Travel Nursing
Hospitals and health-care systems across the country are experiencing a shortage of qualified nursing talent, particularly in a few concentrated states. Moreover, that shortage is expected to increase in the next decade. If there is such a shortage in a hospital or healthcare network and needs to resolve the staffing problem quickly, one option that the facility or program may suggest is employing a short-term contract RN who is a travel nurse.
A travel nurse is a temporary, contract employee who is working at a hospital far enough from his or her permanent residence to make it impractical for the nurse to return home to sleep on a regular basis. This can be in the same state, just as long as this criterion is met; a nurse who is permanently residing in Sacramento , California, for example, may take a travel role in San Diego. Typically, travel nursing assignments last 13 weeks, but the length may vary depending on the host facility or healthcare system needs.
Nurses choose to travel for a variety of reasons, among which the least is:
- Usually higher pay than an RN would have been able to earn in a permanent role;
- Chance of 13 weeks of viewing different regions of the country at a time;
- A opportunity to avoid the current day-to-day politics and drama in hospitals.
