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.
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 […]
The California Board of Registered Nursing’s licensing process is currently a disaster; there is no better way to put it. The problems appear to have begun in October 2013 with the roll-out of BreEZe, a new online system for licensing and enforcement. The botched roll-out of this new system is causing lengthy delays for all […]
One of the many issues that can cause friction when searching for a travel nursing job is the contract start date. Sometimes, the contract start-date is set in stone by the hospital and the nurse is unable to meet the requirement. Meanwhile, some circumstances necessitate nurses to maintain, or at least consider, firm start dates […]
We have a confession to make. We’re not really going to discuss how to negotiate a travel nursing overtime rate. Instead, we’re going to discuss how to negotiate an extra hours rate. First, we’re going to discuss the difference between travel nursing overtime hours and extra hours. Then, we’ll offer some tips on negotiating extra […]
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