Eat Right and Exercise as a Travel Nurse

How Travel Nurses Can Eat Right and Exercise on the Road

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Hey everyone welcome to the truth about travel nursing podcast. My name is Kyle Schmidt. I’m your host and this is Episode 39 of the podcast. This is a very special episode because we have our very first guest. That’s right. Up until now it’s been just me bloviating into this microphone by myself so I’m certain you’re as excited as I am to have a fresh new voice to help us branch out. Read more

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What Travel Nurses Ought To Know About Floating

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Floating is a staffing policy that involves sending a nurse from their regularly scheduled unit to a unit that is in greater need of staff. Studies indicate that most nurses generally dislike floating. Therefore, it’s important for travel nurses to consider that most hospitals expect their travel nurses to float. Moreover, there are a host of unique floating related issues that travel nurses may not have encountered previously. In this article, we’ll discuss things that travel nurses ought to know about floating so they can approach the issue with confidence. Read more

How Long Does It Take To Get A Travel Nursing Job

How Long Does It Take to get a Travel Nursing Job?

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It typically takes 1 to 5 weeks to get a travel nursing job. However, a host of variables affect the length of time it takes to get a travel nursing job. As a result, it can take less than a week in some cases and much longer than 5 weeks in other cases. In this article, we’ll look at the factors that affect the time it takes to get a travel nursing job so you can approach the process with confidence. Read more

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How Nomadicare Matches Travel Healthcare Professionals With Great Recruiters

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The process of finding the perfect travel healthcare recruiter can be daunting. For starters, there are tons of different companies and recruiters. Moreover, different companies have access to different jobs. They also have different approaches to customer service and pay-packages. So, in this article, we’ll take a look at Nomadicare, a service designed to simplify the process by matching travel healthcare professionals with vetted recruiters based on fit. Read more

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What Healthcare Travelers Ought To Know About The 2018 Travelers Conference

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The Travelers Conference, also known as TravCon, is the annual conference for, about and by traveling healthcare professionals. 2018 will be the 11th year of the conference and it promises to be an amazing event. In this article, we’ll provide an overview of the conference and take a look at some of the awesome activities and events lined up for 2018. Read more

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5 Reasons You Should Join a Professional Nursing Organization Now

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Whether you just earned your registered nurse (RN) licensure, are still studying to become a nurse or have been practicing for decades, membership in a professional nursing organization can benefit you in many ways.

Of course, there are countless organizations to choose from, as we’ll later discuss. Some, like the American Nurses Association, are open to all RNs and nursing students. Others, like Delta Gamma At-Large Honor Society, a chapter of Sigma Theta Tau International, are by invitation only, based on nursing school GPA and other criteria. Read more

5 Ways Travel Nurses Can Stay Connected with Friends and Family from Afar

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Being a travel nurse is a high calling. You’re serving patients in areas that need you the most, at hospitals where your help is vital to continuing quality care. Not only that, but you’ve probably got the most exciting job out of anyone you know – jet-setting to new assignments every few months, site-seeing each new city’s main attractions while also getting to experience living like a local.

Even so, the sting of feeling disconnected from friends and family back home can hit travel nurses when they least expect it. In a world where technology can do just about anything, long distance bonds are more possible than ever. Here are a few ways for travel nurses to stay connected with friends and family from afar. Read more