Travel Nursing Company Ratings – 2014

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In their quest to find the best travel nursing companies, travel nurses regularly look to the main travel nursing company rating websites. And why wouldn’t they? As a culture, we love ratings. And as a travel nurse, you’re entrusting so much more to a travel nursing agency than you would to almost any other service.

But like all ratings, travel nurse company ratings should be taken with a grain of salt. We’ve discussed the issues to consider when utilizing travel nurse agency ratings in a previous blog post, so we won’t rehash them here. With that in mind, we have compiled the ratings from three of the top agency rating websites into one cumulative average. We looked at the ratings from Travel Nursing Central, Highway Hypodermics, and Travel Nursing Blogs, created some super nerdy math formulas, and ran the calculations. The results are below.

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Travel Nursing Resume Length

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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 recommended by conventional wisdom. In this blog post, we’ll discuss why you don’t need to be concerned with the length of your travel nursing resume. In doing so, we’ll provide some insight on the use of Applicant Tracking Systems in the travel healthcare industry. Read more

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Sample Travel Nursing Resume – Free Template and Ultimate Writing Guide

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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 nursing resume writing guide should you choose to undertake this painstaking process on your own. Read more

Sample Travel Nursing Skills Checklist – Free

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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 also be rendered as a Travel Nursing Job Application and/or Travel Nursing Resume which can be downloaded together with the member’s Skills Checklists. Together, these documents give travel nursing agencies everything they need to initiate the submission process for travel nursing jobs. It’s all free for members and will save you countless hours of paperwork! Read more