Alliance Nursing

Some free advice from a nurse working as an agency nurse, be prepared! Many nurses are under the impression that they just have to ring up a nursing agency and Bang! - think they'll get a job. It doesn't work like that. Nursing Agency's need nurses to have the correct qualifications and in many cases, paid nursing experience as hospitals and aged care facilities request agency nurses to help them as they are short staffed. When applying for a paid agency nurse job, have all your information ready such as vaccinations, payslips from other employers, police checks and it's also a good idea to have a couple of referees lined up too as they will probably be contacted.

DO not treat nurses well – they do not live up to their glowing reports, they do not comply to requested working conditions and give no support to nurses. pay rate is less than other agencies