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.

How To Protect Your Privacy as a Travel Nurse

What Every Travel Nurse Ought to Know About Privacy Protection

During my time working for travel nursing agencies it was routine to hear candidates complain about being inundated with telephone calls and emails from recruiters. Then, last week, having been away from travel nursing for nearly 2 years, I received the same complaint while fielding a call from a new BluePipes member. Protecting your personal contact information, and in essence your privacy, as a travel nurse is clearly a problem and always has been. In this blog post, we’ll discuss the common ways in which a nurse’s privacy can be compromised and offer some privacy protection recommendations. Read more

How to Avoid Underemployment and Maximize Your Income as a Travel Nurse

Due to the temporary nature of travel nursing jobs, and the instability they sometimes exhibit, travel nurses are often at risk for underemployment. In fact, avoiding underemployment can prove to be a very difficult task. And frequent bouts of underemployment can have a serious negative impact on a travel nurse’s annual income. In this blog post, we’ll discuss “underemployment” as it relates to travel nursing and offer some recommendations for avoiding it and thereby maximizing your income. Read more

What Every Travel Nurse Ought to Know about Frictional Unemployment

Travel nursing jobs are short term engagements typically lasting no more than 13 weeks. So it’s no secret that travel nurses engage in job searches more often than the average professional. What’s less understood is that certain realities in the travel nursing industry tend to exacerbate what labor economists refer to as “frictional unemployment.” In this blog post, we’ll discuss frictional unemployment, how it affects travel nurses, and how travel nurses can remedy the situation and save themselves time, trouble and money in the process. Read more

5 Considerations for OR Travel Nursing

Operating room (OR) nurses work closely with patients, surgeons and other members of the healthcare team before, during, and after operations and other invasive procedures. The demand for OR travel nurses is consistently high. However, there are several factors that OR nurses should be aware of in order to properly manage a travel nursing career and set expectations. Read more

The Pros and Cons of Managed Service Providers for Travel Nurses

Over the past decade, more and more hospitals have turned to one of the various Vendor Management Service models to meet their travel nursing and other contingent staffing needs. In this blog post, we’re going to take close look at one of the more common Vendor Management Service models utilized in the healthcare staffing industry, the Managed Service Provider (MSP). In doing so, we’ll discuss the pros and cons of this model for travel nurses. Read more

7 Potential Start-Up Costs for Travel Nurses

Whether you’re just getting started as a travel nurse or taking on your next travel nursing assignment, there are potential start-up costs that you will most likely be responsible for covering. Many of these costs may be reimbursed as part of your travel nursing pay package, but travel nurses should always anticipate the need to cover some costs up-front. In this blog post, we’ll discuss some of the potential up-front costs and offer some tips for dealing with them so that you can formulate a plan. Read more

Travel Nursing at Small Rural Hospitals

Small rural hospitals are often in need of travel nurses. Such hospitals present some unique and challenging circumstances. Understanding the issues involved will help travel nurses ensure a very rewarding experience. Read more