Travel Nursing Job Tips and Information

Everything travel nurses need to know about travel nursing jobs, including how to find them and what to expect while working them.

4 Potential Travel Nursing Job Problems and Tips for Handeling

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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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8 Tips for Travel Nursing Contract Extensions

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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 Assignment Reporting Instructions

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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

Travel Nursing Documentation : Compliance and Credentialing

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Travel Nursing Documentation

As soon as a travel nurse accepts a travel nursing job offer, the travel nursing company will initiate the credentialing and compliance process if they haven’t already. Credentialing and compliance is one of the biggest burdens that companies and their travelers have to contend with. In this blog post, we’ll provide some background and offer some recommendations to ensure your documentation is acceptable. Read more

Tips for Travel Nursing Contracts

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Different travel nursing companies have different travel nursing contracts. The differences lie largely with the various contract clauses that companies choose to use. As mentioned previously, you want to ensure that the contract includes a certain set of information for tax purposes. This includes the start date, end date, taxable pay rate, non taxable stipend rates, and the address of the hospital. Read more

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Tips for Travel Nursing Job Offers

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Once you complete a the travel nursing job interview, you move into the “offer stage” of the process. This part of the process can be nerve-wracking. There are a lot of uncertainties to contend with. In this article, we’ll take a detailed look at the job-offer phase of the process so travel nurses can approach it with confidence. Read more

Tips for Your Travel Nursing Job Interview

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The most important thing to know about the travel nursing job interview is that it’s your time to find out everything you possibly can about the hospital, the unit, and the expectations they have. Even if your recruiter has given you answers to certain questions you had about these subjects, you should still address all your questions during the interview. This is because, given the fluid nature of the travel nursing job market and the various managed vendor relationship models, it’s very difficult, and sometimes impossible, for  recruiters to get timely and accurate answers to questions you may have about the hospital, the unit, and various policies that may be important to you. Read more