I'm one of the Co-Founders of BluePipes which provides professional networking and career management tools for healthcare professionals. I was formerly a Healthcare Recruiter and Recruitment Manager. I also have an extensive background in the financial services industry, a B.S in Finance and Risk Management and an MA in Government both from California State University Sacramento.
Maintaining updated medical records is a common requirement for healthcare professionals. Doing so is only a minor burden when a healthcare professional maintains permanent employment. However, travel nurses switch employers much more often than their permanent counterparts and each new employer must obtain a full set of compliance records. So travelers could potentially duplicate their […]
Travel nursing pay packages are complex. There are many more variables to consider than your typical pay package and everyone seems to have a different way of evaluating and explaining them. As a result, important factors often get lost in translation when evaluating travel nursing pay. One of the most routinely neglected factors is Time. […]
Unfortunately, travel nursing contracts can and do get cancelled. While cancellations don’t happen too often, they can be demoralizing when they do. Cancellations happen for any number of reasons and at any period of the process. In this blog post, we’ll discuss some of the circumstances surrounding one specific cancellation scenario; when a travel nursing […]
Many agencies count on verbal agreements as binding travel nursing contracts. Here are some considerations for travelers and agencies.
Pay is among the most important variables that travel nurses must consider when determining whether or not to accept an assignment. In fact, travel nursing pay quotes are routinely requested and provided prior to the traveler being submitted for consideration to an open assignment. Unfortunately, these quotes end up being wrong more often than both […]
Travel nursing recruiters balance their time between recruiting new clients and servicing their existing clients. In our last blog post, we described the tasks typically involved in the travel nurse recruitment process and how those tasks are used to measure a recruiter’s job performance. In this blog post, we’ll take a closer look at the service […]
Recruiters are a pivotal part of every travel nurse’s career. Recruiters are travelers’ primary interface with specific agencies and the job market in general. In fact, you’ll find many travel nurses who claim that recruiters are the single most important external component of their careers. This is why experienced travel nurses are always on the […]
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