Travel Nursing Companies and Agencies

Everything travel nurses need to know about travel nursing companies including how to find the best, how they operate, contract availability and more.

9 Points of Debate Between Travel Nursing Companies over the MSP Model

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The debate over Managed Service Providers in travel nursing and healthcare staffing heated up in June of 2013 when opposing sides exchanged barbs on The Staffing Stream. Colleen Mills, a Senior VP for the National Healthcare Staffing Alliance wrote a piece urging small and mid-sized travel nursing companies to “Take a stand on VMS/MSP”. Days later, Bob Livonius, President of Workforce Solutions at AMN Healthcare, took exception and urged healthcare staffing agencies to “Work Together to Embrace Best Practices with MSPs.” This is an important topic with major implications for travel nurses, travel allied professionals, and Locum Tenens.  Read more

When, Why, and How to Determine Travel Nursing Company – Hospital Relationships

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We discussed the two main categories of hospital-travel nursing company relationships in Part 1 and Part 2 of this series. Remember, agencies can have a direct relationship with a hospital whereby their representatives have direct communication with the hospital’s representatives. Or, agencies can go through a middleman commonly referred to as a Vendor Management System whereby every agency that does business with the hospital must go through the same middleman. Or, the hospital can utilize a Managed Service Provider which is a healthcare staffing company that holds an exclusive contract with the hospital and sub-contracts out to other agencies. Read more

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

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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

How Many Travel Nursing Companies Should You Work With?

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Many travel nurses wonder if they should work with more than one travel nursing agency to help them land their desired job. The simple answer is yes! In this article, we’ll review everything travel nurses need to know about working with multiple agencies.
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How to Find the Best Travel Nursing Recruiters

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As we’ve previously written, you will most likely be able to find a large number of travel nursing agencies that can meet all your needs in terms of services, benefits and assignment locations. As a result, you will still be stuck figuring out which agencies to actually work with. That’s where finding great travel nursing recruiters comes into play.

Recruiters can make bad agencies good and good agencies bad. Unfortunately, it can be tough to find really good travel nursing recruiters. So, in this article, we’ll provide details and tips to help you find the best travel nursing recruiters.

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List of Travel Nursing Companies and General Contact Information

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Below is a list of over 200 travel nursing agencies. Please comment if you would like to add an agency to the list or if you find any incorrect or outdated information on the list. Read more

How To Find Travel Nursing Agencies that Work in Your Desired Destinations

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If you’ve read our articles about “Finding Travel Nursing Companies,” you’ll probably agree that the question becomes, “Are you finding the agency, or is the agency finding you?” If you stop to think about this, you’ll discover that your approach to finding travel nursing agencies may actually expose you to sneaky ways for agencies to find you. This isn’t necessarily bad. However, it behooves you to actually find agencies that can meet your needs as opposed to fielding random inquiries from random agencies.
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