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.
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.
Calculating net pay is an important step in comparing competing travel nursing pay packages and ultimately deciding whether or not to accept a particular travel nursing job. The importance of net pay is relatively unique to travel nursing. This is due largely to the fact that levels of tax-free compensation vary so greatly. However, there […]
Understanding this behind-the-scenes breakdown of a travel nursing pay package will help travel nurses during the negotiating process.
This short video explains how travel nurses and travel healthcare professionals can use BluePipes to reduce their paperwork burden, increase their reach in the travel nursing job market, increase their chances of landing their most desired assignments, and force travel nursing agencies to compete for their business. Over 50 agencies have already contacted us to […]
Travel nurses are consistently bombarded with paperwork and testing for each new travel nursing job they accept. It’s not uncommon for travel nurses to spend 6 to 12 hours completing paperwork and taking tests prior to even starting the assignment and that’s not counting the various physical exams that must routinely be taken. In many […]
What are travel nursing bill rates and why are they important? A travel nursing bill rate is the hourly rate that a hospital agrees to pay a travel nursing agency for an hour of a travel nurse’s time at work. Bill rates are important to travel nurses because they’re the foundation of the travel nursing […]
Travel nursing pay packages are comprised of many different variables which can make accurate quantification quite difficult. Different recruiters have different ways of explaining travel nursing pay which further complicates the issue. Moreover, the lack of generally agreed upon vocabulary to describe pay packages adds yet more confusion. We’ve previously discussed how to break down […]
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