Emergency Room Overcrowding

Overcrowding in the ER: A State of Emergency?

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What happens when an emergency room encounters more patients than it can accommodate? MHA@GW, the online master of health administration offered through the Milken Institute School of Public Health at the George Washington University, created the below infographic to help explain why ER overcrowding happens and who it hurts. In addition to detailing some of the causes behind congestion in ER settings, the graphic also describes ways in which the problem affects care delivery and how we might alleviate overcrowding in the future. Read more

Travel Nurse Recruiting Services

7 Services Travel Nursing Recruiters Provide

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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 aspect of travel nurse recruiting. Here again, knowing what’s going on behind the scenes can be very beneficial for travel nurses. Read more

Travel Nurse Recruiter Job

What You Should Know about Your Travel Nursing Recruiter’s Job

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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 hunt for the best travel nursing recruiters. However, the recruiter’s day-to-day job duties and requirements remain a mystery to most. Knowing what’s going on behind the scenes can be very useful for travel nurses. Read more

Low Travel Nursing Pay Rates

5 Factors that Depress Travel Nursing Pay Rates

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It’s no secret that travel nursing pay rates fluctuate.  Of course, that means that travel nursing pay rates decrease sometimes. During those times, travel nurses understandably speculate about the cause. The reality is that there are many intermittent and constant variables that negatively affect pay rates. So, in this article, we’ll take a look at 5 factors that contribute to lower travel nursing pay rates. Read more

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The Economics of Travel Nurse Contact Information

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Travel nurses maybe unaware that there is a burgeoning marketplace centered around collecting and exchanging their personal contact information. Even if you know about this marketplace, you may be shocked to find out just how valuable your personal contact information truly is. In this blog post, we’ll take an in depth look at the economics of “broadcast services” in the travel healthcare industry. Read more

Highest paying travel nursing company

Is There a Highest Paying Travel Nursing Agency?

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With hundreds of agencies operating throughout the United States, many travel nurses wonder if there is a highest paying travel nursing agency. After all, great pay is one of the many advantages that agencies tout about their services. Unfortunately, it would be impossible to definitively determine THE highest paying agency. However, understanding the issues pertinent to this question can help you find agencies that pay good rates. Read more

Nursing Resume Tips for Applicant Tracking Systems

16 Tips To Prepare Your Nursing Resume For Applicant Tracking Systems

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We’ve spoken to countless nurses and other healthcare professionals who have expressed dismay with the now ubiquitous applicant tracking systems utilized by healthcare organizations for nursing jobs and other healthcare jobs. The most common complaint is that the applicant tracking system is like a black hole. The nurse fills out an online application, uploads their nursing resume, and then never hears a word from the employer.

We always inquire if the nurse made an attempt to optimize their nursing resume for the resume parser and the applicant tracking system. Understandably, most nurses have no idea what this means. In this blog post, we’ll discuss the importance of optimizing your resume for applicant tracking systems and offer some tips for doing so. Read more