Travel nurses often express concern that premium recruiting services like Indeed, LinkedIn and Monster are “hands in the pot” that ultimately reduce travel nursing pay. In this article, we’ll take a look at the pertinent business fundamentals to clarify what’s going on behind the scenes. Read more
We often see travel nurses ask, “What is the average bill rate for a travel nurse?” In this article, we’ll dissect two reports that provide insight on the average bill rate for travel nurses. We’ll also take a look at how knowing the answer to this question may or may not be useful so you can approach this topic with confidence. Read more
Finding the best travel nursing agencies is both difficult and important. It’s important because travel nurses entrust these companies with some of the most crucial aspects of their lives. It’s difficult because there are over 250 travel nursing companies with ratings and reviews scattered across multiple resources. So, for a third consecutive year, we aggregated thousands of reviews from some of the most trusted resources to bring you this list of the best travel nursing companies of 2019. Read more
We often see potential travel nurses asking if they are too old to start travel nursing. Moreover, it’s important for travel nursing companies to know the age of their customers in order to provide the world-class service they deserve. So in this article, we take a look at all the age-related research we could find to determine the average age of travel nurses and other related details. Read more
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Hey everyone. Welcome to the truth about travel nursing podcast. My name is Kyle Schmidt and I’m your host. This is episode 40 and we have another amazing guest with us today. We are joined today by Ryan Sendow. Ryan is an experienced travel nurse who specializes in psych. He’s currently taking some time off to focus on completing a Nurse Practitioner Program. He’s also the owner or operator of two very intriguing social media accounts that you will definitely want to follow. One is on Instagram and the other is on snapchat. They are both referred to as “Travel Nurse Takeover”. I can’t wait for you to hear about these unique and inspiring social media accounts and find out how you can benefit from them and even contribute to them which is what makes them really so awesome. Read more
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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
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
