registered nurse - medical / surgical

registered nurse - telemetry

travel nurse

registered nurse - emergency room

registered nurse - icu

Aureus Medical Group

These people have lied to me before, and I knew better!

The recruiter was nice, as long as she thought she would make some money!

This is an "old school" employer, but, they use contractors for every step of on-boarding. They will send you to a back-street "Urgent Care" for the physical, run you around in circles providing them with forms, documents, drug screens, fingerprints... The HR process, it's all on you! Nobody at Aureus helps, they all just give you more and more to do!

It's fun to get your "competency checked" by rude, incompetent, dishonest people, who don't care about you at all.

The positions available at Aureus are low-paying, exploitative, and the money you make, it's mostly for Aureus!

The big agencies generate billions in revenue, but not for the people who go out and do the work!

Aureus is in business to make money for Aureus. The end.

In my department, there are many openings. Recruiters think that THEY are the professionals! Something is seriously wrong here! 

Dealing with Aureus will make you crazy, and, it will make you think about changing careers, from RN to recruiter!

HR in hospitals is already very poor. HR people ruin many employment experiences, for many people. Aureus is making the situation worse, every day!

Being a traveler is poor quality employment, and you can do better!

Aureus is a very shady, and badly managed company. Recruiters change jobs often, and are frequently dishonest. Recruiters only care about their commissions, just like all salespeople.

It is too bad that so many people feel that they are disengaged from real full-time employment, and that they would rather be "tourists" than employees. 

Healthcare employment is becoming less and less attractive, and recruiters and travel companies are a large part of the problem!

Don't work for Aureus! They are hardly a good choice, and they lie!

What is the best part of working at the company?
Remote work, Depending on factors can pay well. Good PTO policies. 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
High metrics and goals to hit every month. Lots of metrics/goals to attain and focus on. Including outbound calls, candidates placed, amount of candidates sent to jobs, margin, employees on assignment (Aureus uses a scale that makes it harder) Need to have a minimum of 24 full time employees working for you. If you have travelers working 7on 7off, 3x12's, have anyone on vacation/sick or not scheduled or anyone below 40 hours they will not count as a full time employee. With this scale you realistically need 26-27+ working at all times. Market was very busy during covid, market shifted drastically after, but all metrics stayed the same and a lot of recruiters fell behind. 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Culture used to be better. Recruiters are competing internally constantly, battling over candidates. Everyone used to be in office, so a lot of people knew each other before company went remote and hired all over. You can definitely tell there is favoritism. Company used to offer quarterly bonuses but no longer does. Changed the commission structure Jan 2023 which caused everyone to make less money, then announced for 2024 they are increasing their burden rate, which directly affects peoples margin which means you will need to increase your margin even more to make the same you did before. These changes really started to change the enviorment. 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
be prepared to make a lot of calls. Newcomers are expected to have 40+ outbound calls a day. If you are hitting the rest of your metrics they don't expect as many calls. Expect to leave Voicemails 80-85% of your calls. In the beginning you are hammering the phone to try and get leads. If you are able to establish yourself, you are working with candidates and pitching potential jobs, negoating pay with them.

Aureus is a decent travel company for higher pay and housing allotments for saving extra money, but they do not make sure they get all the necessary information to their travelers at times. They don't provide pto, and reset all sick days for each assignment so it's nearly impossible to take time off. Having anything less than perfect attendance to your assignment gets you an unreliable rating on your assignment review. The health insurance is expensive and every doctor will be out of network unless you live near their headquarters in Nebraska. If you don't continue with a next assignment, you have the pay the premium they pay out of pocket, and even for the rest of a month if you go with another company afterward. 

They also don't seem to understand night shift, which is highly hired for, and will get annoyed if you don't answer immediately when they call during sleeping hours. 

The biggest issue is the back ground checks. They seem to have trouble getting things done on a timely manner that you can't do yourself, and background checks and referral calls seems to be the biggest one. They nearly cost me an assignment I had already begun by not getting my paperwork done for the management until a month into it. I was told I would have to pay the facility for the additional fees hiring a traveler cost them if I had to leave before the end of my contract, and my representative at aureus was not reassuring. Thankfully this only happened once, but other paperwork does end up on their back burner until the last minute often, so be prepared to push them about it. 

I came in and found others making fun of special needs people. Seeing me come in, and knowing that my son is autistic, they did not stop. I went to management and was told to "handle it myself". Management did nothing to support the staff and the front line manager was absolutely clueless. There were so many days where she didn't even know who was off or who was supposed to be at other satellite locations. I was grateful to just be a temp and what I saw in that breif time made me never want to go back again...ever. Many of the staff were flat out rude and disrespectful to not only me but to each other as well. There were 2 individuals that were truly kind, but I was refered to as "Hey You" for over 3 weeks until I started spelling my name out to each individual. Again, I told management and she shrugged it off like my name didn't matter. This was also a very hazardous place to work. They had too many notable OSHA violations to name. But for instance, I mentioned to management that I saw several individuals pouring liquid nitrogen straight out of the metal container into Styrofoam without any PPE gear. A small drop can burn a person down to the bone. The manager said that she didnt have any PPE gear for workers to use. They also had extremely volitile and flammable chemicals next to open flames. This was just a hot mess. This is by far one of the worst working environments that I have ever encountered. I feel bad for anyone who gets stuck there. This is, in no way, a reflection of my staffing company Aureus other than they didnt pull me out of that mess. This is only about St. Francis OSF Hospital Laboratory.

There is always two sides to every story, here's mine:  First I was told that my role would be to handle the ICU overflow.  If no overflow then I was to "help out" in the dept. but would not be in charge of a team.  In the time spent there at SLU, first off the orientation was atrocious, I was given a walk thru tour.  It took two weeks to get a working computer code and even on my last day, I still had no access code to use the accucheck machine.  No one properly discussed correct procedure with paperwork.  I was given a patient (while orientating) and was told to "fill out the paperwork as best as you can and we'll go over it all later" but, later never came.
     If I wasn't assigned to work the greeter area, then I was given 2 Pt's.  At 2300 the pt ratio would either remain at 2 or at times increase to 3 Pt's.  On Sat the 28th it was mass confusion as to which of us had the unassigned rooms.  What attempted to be a collaborative effort turned into a cluster.  So much for not being responsible for a team as told during my interview.
     The 12 shifts I worked breakdown: 1 day-computer work(skills), tour, follow RN for 2 hrs.
3 days- Orient. follow RN but took Pt's.  2.5 days- Greeter box(sign in Pt's).  0.5 day- minor care w/ 4 Pt's decreased to 1 ICU pt.  1 day- float around and help out.  4 days- on my own.
      I was unaccustomed to entering all my own orders  and then to draw my own labs.  The process took me slightly longer than a regular staff RN used to the system.  Grant it my IV insertions are not the greatest but, have vastly improved.  I maintained a positive, friendly,  upbeat attitude however, I can say the majority of the employees I came into contact with were not as polite, welcoming or caring as I would have expected them to be.
     Thank you for allowing me to state my side of the story.

This is my first travel assignment with Aureus Medical Group or any travel company for that matter. So far, so good. Other travelers I currently work with came with different traveling companies and my situation with Aureus seems better than their situation with their company. It's difficult to compare these companies salaries and benefits to one another. All give free housing or a housing allowance, some give free rental car, some offer food subsidies, some give health insurance starting first day of hire, others after a month on the job. All of these "perks" are tied in to your salary which can go up or down depending on what they are giving you. Actually you have to remember they are not giving you anything...YOU are giving them something; your hard work and dedication to your job. A lot of your individual happiness dealing with your particular company has to do with your recruiter that is assigned to you. Some will promise you the moon, then back track once you sign on the dotted line. Some will deal with you truthfully while others will lie to you and not back you up. I think the secret to being successful as a traveler is mostly affected by the honesty and integrity of your recruiter. Some will bend over backwards to help you and others may be difficult to reach out to when you need them. Do your homework. Talk to travelers and read lots of reviews about the different companies. Some people LOVE one company while others despise it. Good Luck!

On my 2nd assignment, I knew I would have a heavy work load and be working long hours, yet my account manager promised me if I was getting too worn out he would bring in another travel tech to help me.
This hospital just through me in with only one day of training on a GE machine I had never used. They never had their Radiologist talk to me about protocols so while I was trying to stay on schedule, I would get harassing phone calls from the Rad. Their prior tech had left so many protocol and they had a manager with no medical background.
After 6 weeks Aureus and this hospital brought in another tech. This was the mist hostile work environment I have ever worked at and this new tech critized me all the time. When I told my account manager all this all he would do is say try to hang in there.
I'm usually good with IV starts, but their cancer patients all had bad veins. They didn't have but only 1 other Nuclear Med tech to help out and he had a bad attitude.
I'm the end, this hospital cut my contract by 2 weeks and so their director had to write a review of my performance. It then has to go to a review board to see if I can still work for Aureus. It was bad, untrue. I wrote one too, but Aureus to the hospital's side. So I can't work for Aurues ever again.
So, don't get stressed out and make any mistakes, or Aureus will side with the hospital and you will have a bad record and cannot find another job.

This company was really pushy from day one.
Account "managers" who have no clue about anything medical related, who call you multiple times a day to just "talk and catch up" or provide you with the exact same information/"updates" on your "leads" over and over again. You're manipulated into being submitted to positions you've expressly stated you have no interest in and are then penalized for declining subsequent offers as a result of those submissions. Penalized for withdrawing from a contract due to medical emergencies. It's a mystery to these "account managers" why a DOUBLE BOARD CERTIFIED ICU nurse wouldn't want to work in med/surg telemetry...seriously? There is no concept of what nurses do as professionals, nor of their unique specialties.
Pay is subpar. Travel reimbursement is a flat cap of $300 no matter where you go, even if it’s across the entire country. 
There were instances where I was the one reaching out to my “account managers” about opportunities I wanted to be submitted to…I was also told on occasion to call and check in with potential hiring managers, though the “account manager” telling me to do so couldn’t even provide me with the specific ICU I’d been submitted to or the name/contact information for this respective individual. Isn’t that what they’re paid to do??
I would say proceed with caution. There are so many other more competitively paying, respectable, and competent travel companies out there.

Where do I begin...Absolutely horrible management, low pay and pitiful per diem! Housing was OK on first assignment but then I was lied to about the housing situation for my second assignment. Aureus wants to put you in the absolute cheapest MOTEL'S possible.. My account manager actually admitted that to me. She was a horrible.. horrible.. manager and their so called "AurHomes" travel department..well that is a JOKE!!! They will make you pay for a hotel room if you choose not to stay there due to the NASTY CONDITIONS... And then they will charge you more than they are actually paying the third party and automatically takes it out of your paycheck.  You have very little say if any in the housing options. You will more than likely push you to cussing them out and threaten to leave your assignment before seeing any results. They don't care if you have to make a 40 mile one way commute everday! This company will CHEAT YOU OUT OF YOUR MONEY AND LIE LIKE THE DEVIL..THEY ARE NOTHING BUT $$$ HUNGRY! Oh and by the way they expect you to stay in a bed bug ridden motel room.. Speaking from experience... Beware!! There are MUCH better companies out here that will treat you with respect, pay you what you deserve and show you appreciation where it's due...

Working for a travel company is very rewarding personally and professionally.  I have been able to expand my experience and skills by learning new techniques and procedures that are performed at other facilities across the country.

Being able to meet new people and learn from other is a great benefit to any radiologic technologist's career.

Hardest part of the position is having to leave a place you really enjoyed once the contract has finished.  It can be a bit stressful starting the next assignment due to unfamiliarity of the facility and people, but a well skilled technologist has very little trouble adjusting and fitting in.

Aureus Medical Group works very well with their employees to find them assignments that best match their needs and wants.  They care about their employees and work hard to help ease any situation that may arise.  I recommend working for this company if you ever want to experience traveling around the country and expanding your skills and experiences.

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