Should I take a $58/hr travel nurse contract in Houston or stay ICU charge nurse here?
got offered a 13 week travel contract, $58/hr plus housing stipend, ICU in Houston. that's almost double what im making now. but my manager just offered me the charge nurse spot here too, $34/hr, benefits, my own unit, patients i actually know the names of. i've been at this hospital 6 years. i have a lease that ends in April, a cat, and exactly one friend group i actually like which is rare in this field. travel nursing means living out of a suitcase, no PTO that means anything, new hospital politics every 3 months, and being the outsider everyone side eyes on day one. but the money is real money. like actually save something money. and charge nurse just means more meetings and being the one who gets called when someone codes at 3am and there's no doctor on the floor yet. my coworkers are split. one said take the money while my back still works. another said stability is worth more than people admit until they don't have it. i keep flip flopping every shift.
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