Pay rate is way below market average. Traveler nurses get paid two times more than us and expected to do less. There is no work-life balance. Every week I'm supposed to spend at least 8 hours of my free time to keep up with in-service classes. Management has no idea what is going on on the floor. All the equipment are neglected and malfunctions, failure of the computers etc are an essential part of our daily work. I've been working as a critical care nurse for Novant for 5 years. This year I got 99 cents raise which made my salary $32/hour. When I wanted to transfer to another unit, they said my pay rate would be 29 dollars an hour there. They said they didn't have money to pay us because they spent too much on travel nurses. Today I gave my 30 days' notice and I'm leaving for an agency.