Why You Should Treat the End of Travel Nursing Jobs like Opportunities

The vast majority of travel nursing jobs are wonderful experiences. You’ll enjoy the hospital, they’ll enjoy you, and it will end amicably. I recommend treating every contract-end as an opportunity to advance your career for three primary reasons. First, you may wish to return to the hospital in the future either as a travel nurse or a permanent employee. Second, you’ll want to ensure that you have references for future assignments and permanent jobs. Third, travel nursing presents a unique opportunity to expand your professional network. Read more

4 Potential Travel Nursing Job Problems and Tips for Handeling

Unfortunately, things aren’t always sunshine and daydreams while working a travel nursing job. Like any other time in life, there are a slew of potential pitfalls. In fact, there are too many issues for us to enumerate and address here. However, we can take a look at some of the overarching themes and offer some recommendations for handling them professionally and successfully.

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5 Tips to Get the Most Out of Your Travel Nursing Recruiters

In our last blog post, we discussed how to find a good travel nursing recruiter. Once you’ve found a good recruiter, there are steps you can take to get the most out them. Remember, recruiters are constantly juggling multiple candidates. They often need to determine which candidates merit the most value for the recruiter’s time. You want to make sure that you’re at the top of that list. Read more

Board of Nursing List

Below is a list of each state’s Board of Nursing. Read more

Travel Nursing Extension Contract Tips

8 Tips for Travel Nursing Contract Extensions

Assuming that you’re still having fun as a travel nurse, you will need to continue to secure travel nursing jobs on an ongoing basis. The easiest job to secure is the extension assignment. Essentially, an extension assignment is when you extend your current contract for an additional number of weeks. Of course, if you don’t sign an extension, then you’ll need to look for a new job. In this blog post, we’ll provide 8 tips for travel nursing contract extensions. Read more

Travel Nursing Pay – Managing Your Time Card and Pay

Different hospitals have different ways for travel nurses to keep track of their time. Some hospitals have electronic time keeping systems. Other hospitals require travel nurses to keep a paper time card and turn it in to the hospital staffing office at the end of the week where it is supposed to be reviewed and forwarded to the travel nursing company. Still others require that you keep a paper time card and get a manager to sign it so that you can send it to your company. The bottom line is that all of these systems are flawed and you should take control in order to ensure that you get paid correctly and on time. Read more

Travel Nursing Assignment Reporting Instructions

Travel nurses should receive reporting instructions for a travel nursing job at some point prior to the start date. Typically, hospitals don’t send the reporting instructions to the travel nursing company until they’ve received a fully compliant file of documents for the travel nurse. Read more