Pros
Entry level position available to college graduates with no other marketable skills.
Cons
If you're a single recent college grad with little or no debt then the pay isn't bad if housing costs for your area are low. However if you have any kids, and/or significant bills then the pay you receive is not sufficient. When you interview they will tell you how much money you can make, and that you can make as much money as you want, they say that to sucker you in. If you were paid an hourly wage, the pay might not be that bad. On average you'll work 10-11 hour days or longer and then take call some nights and weekends, constantly getting chewed out by both nurses and clients for things that are outside of your control. Some of the family members are so mad at life they use you, the recruiter, as an outlet and feel that their life sucks and yours should too. If you don't care about making an honest living, and you have no integrity whatsoever than you might like this job. Your account manager will flat out tell you to lie to nurses you manage and the clients you serve in order to improve the bottom line for 1 week. Getting promoted meant that you, not your account manager, email the regional account manager on a regular basis telling him how good of a job you're doing (that is exactly what I was told I needed to do in order to get promoted), I informed my account manager that’s not the way something like that is suppose to work, if he thought I was doing a good job it is his responsibility to inform his boss. Also chances are that there is a deeply rooted us vs. them in the office between the account manager and office clinical staff, since your AM does what he/she needs to do to raise numbers to look better including taking on cases or assigning nurses to cases where the nurse's skill level does not match that level of care required by the client.
