Securing a Travel Nursing Job – Your Submission Profile Part 2: The Skills Checklist

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What is a Travel Nursing Skills Checklist

A skills checklist is a self assessment tool designed to give hiring managers and travel nursing agencies a solid understanding of a candidate’s experience within a specific nursing specialty. Skills checklists can be formatted differently, but they are all quite similar. They typically ask candidates to rate their level of experience with various processes, procedures, and equipment that are commonly utilized within the unit or specialty in question. Read more

Securing a Travel Nursing Assignment – Your Submission Profile Part 1: The Application

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Travel Nursing Submission Profile

Once you have determined which travel nursing cmpaines that you’re going to work with, you’ll almost certainly be requested to complete each agency’s on-line employment application as well as their skills checklists for the specialties that you’re qualified for. There’s a very good reason for this. The vast majority of hospitals that utilize travel nurses have a minimum set of items that they require companies to submit in order to even consider a candidate for a travel nursing job. Read more

Is Travel Nursing Right for You – Advantages and Disadvantages, Qualifications and Expectations

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Advantages of Travel Nursing

Travel nursing can be very rewarding for those who are up for it. You’ll have the opportunity to travel and immerse yourself in some great cities and towns throughout the country. You’ll meet great people and be exposed to new cultural experiences. You’ll gain valuable work experience that would most likely take you years to gain if you were to work in any one location. You’ll be able to take more time off throughout the year should you choose to do so. You can use travel nursing to quickly depart from a bad permanent working situation. You can use it to visit remote friends and family for extended periods. You can use it to test out new potential employers to see first hand if they may be a fit for you as a permanent member of their team. Read more

Travel Nursing Pay – Considerations for Guaranteed Hours

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“Guaranteed hours” is an often misunderstood concept in travel nursing. Some travel nurses assume that it means they’re going to get paid for the contracted hours no matter what. Some assume that it means they’re going to get paid for the contracted hours as long as they don’t call in sick or otherwise miss a scheduled day of work. Some assume that guaranteed hours are a benefit provided by the company. In fact, guaranteed hours are determined by the contract between the hospital and travel nursing company and exist to protect both the company and the travel nurse. Read more

Travel Nursing Pay – How are your extra hours paid?

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One of the most overlooked aspects of the travel nursing pay package is “Extra Hours.” Extra hours are hours that are worked above and beyond the hours mandated by the contract. In this blog post, we’ll look at some examples to determine the difference between an extra hour and an overtime hour. We’ll also discuss some of the issues at play with extra hours and what it all means for travel nurses. Read more

Deciding Where to Travel as a Travel Nurse

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Deciding where to travel as a travel nurse seems simple on the surface. Maybe you have family in a particular location so you’d like to find a travel nursing job there. Maybe you’ve always wanted to see Alaska or Hawaii so you’d like to find jobs in those places. You are certainly welcome and able to approach your decision with these ideas at the forefront, but I recommend a more logical approach due to logistical issues. Read more

Travel Nursing Pay – License and Certification Reimbursements

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Travel Nursing License and Certification Reimbursements

License and certification reimbursements are one of the many perceived perks of travel nursing. In fact, some agencies offer them and others don’t. The agencies that do offer them have many different methods of handling them. Most importantly, in the end, like every other item in the travel nursing pay package, travel nurses should view these reimbursements as just another component of the pay package pie. In other words, the simple fact that a reimbursement is offered doesn’t necessarily make one pay package better than another that’s not offering a reimbursement. Read more