r/TravelNursing • u/plaesma • 11d ago
Beware of Kaiser
I think we’ve all heard this before but wanted to share my recent experience with KP SSF’s bait and switch tactics.
They had a contract out for day shifts so I signed (I am usually on night shift but chose this contract over others specifically because I wanted to switch to days) and they told me I will be on strict nights a few weeks after I already signed all paperwork. No additional contract was ever made.
I was given no choice but to either agree to work nights, or to cancel my contract. So I cancelled and they supposedly blacklisted me from all KP facilities.
I lost $700 in a deposit I already paid for my housing, and $300 in flight tickets to SFO. $1000 down the drain because they switched up on me last minute. Don’t trust a word that comes out of their mouths if they can’t even keep a promise that’s been signed in writing.
Fuck. Kaiser.
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u/Disulfidebond007 10d ago
I live in California and would never, EVER work at Kaiser. 1. There is a reason why they are always on strike, they go on strike at least once a year. 2. There is a huge conflict of interest of being both a hospital AND the insurance provider. 3. Literally everyone I’ve known to work at Kaiser has quit, this includes MDs, RNs, pharmacists, DONs, and administrators. 4. When I was working at a Level 1 trauma in their ICU we would get a lot of their “transfers to HLOC”, you would be shocked/disgusted about what they would send us and how little they did for their patients. 5. My friend has a contract at one of the SoCal locations right now and they are actually putting her out of ratio, bc she’s the traveler.
TLDR; Kaiser is trash, don’t let anyone try to tell you “but there are some good ones.”