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.
Kaiser Permanente is one of the largest healthcare employers in the state of California if not the largest. Kaiser is also one of the biggest users of travel nurses in California. In this blog post, we’ll provide some detailed information about travel nursing with Kaiser so that travel nurses know what to expect.
Due to the short term nature of travel nursing jobs, travel nurses change jobs frequently. Meanwhile, travel nurses are told that their resumes must include all pertinent details for each assignment they have completed. So travel nurses often wonder how it’s possible to keep their travel nursing resumes within the one to two page limit […]
The rules for travel nursing resumes are totally different than resumes for permanent nursing jobs. In this article, we’ll discuss the reasons that travel nursing resumes are different. Next, we’ll provide a sample travel nursing resume that you can build using our free travel nursing resume builder. Finally, we’ll provide you with the ultimate travel […]
Below is a sample Travel Nursing Skills Checklist created with BluePipes. This is a free service for BluePipes members and there are over 100 comprehensive skills checklists available. Members are able to download their Skills Checklists in PDF and send them to travel nursing agencies at their convenience. What’s more, the BluePipes profile can can […]
In this article, we’ll take a look at a sample Travel Nursing Job Application created with BluePipes. This is a free service for BluePipes members. Simply complete your profile, download it as a PDF Job Application and send it to travel nursing agencies at your convenience. This will save you hours on redundant paperwork.
Travel nursing pay packages can be daunting. They have more variables than permanent pay packages and different agencies pitch their pay packages in different ways. The complexities make for a lot potential pitfalls. In this blog post, we’ll discuss some of the most common mistakes when evaluating pay and how to avoid them.
We recently communicated with a travel nurse whose agency offered her a choice between guaranteed hours or a higher pay rate. This choice had her, and many other travel nurses, perplexed. In fact, it even had many experienced recruiters perplexed. After all, guaranteed hours is a straightforward concept, isn’t it? Actually, in recent years the […]
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