Dallas, Texas is a popular destination for travel nurses. In this article, we’ll provide a travel nursing specific guide with information on pay, cost of living, housing options, hospitals, and extracurricular activities so travel nurse can get prepared to flourish in this popular Lone Star State destination. Read more
The U.S. Department of Education (ED) is currently in the process of revising its existing regulatory framework in an effort to comply with new federal student loan limits contained in the Republicans’ “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” (OBBA). Under ED’s current proposal, many healthcare fields, including nursing, would not qualify for the new maximum borrowing limits for graduate studies. In this article, I’ll provide a detailed overview of this issue with a focus on nursing and other healthcare professionals. Read more
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Welcome to episode 46 of The Truth About Travel Nursing Podcast! In this episode, I take you behind the scenes of one of our most popular features at BluePipes: our annual list of the best travel nursing companies. Read more
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In this episode of The Truth About Travel Nursing Podcast, host Kyle Schmidt breaks down the recent changes to the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) and what they mean for travel nurses. With aggressive new rules from the FCC taking effect in 2025, travel healthcare professionals may finally have tools to combat the flood of unsolicited calls and texts from staffing agencies and job boards. Read more
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In the final installment of our 3-part series on travel nursing job boards, we uncover the dark underbelly of the job board industry. From misleading advertising tactics to outright fraud, Kyle walks you through the shady practices that job seekers—especially travel nurses—must look out for when searching for jobs online. Read more
Google has dramatically increased its use of AI Overviews since first launching the feature in May of 2024. This despite the fact that researchers studying Generative AI report hallucination rates as high as 82% on certain topics. Therefore, I thought it would be a good idea to check in on how AI Overviews are performing on the topic of travel nursing. What I found was astonishingly alarming. Read more
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Welcome back to The Truth About Travel Nursing Podcast with your host, Kyle Schmidt! In Episode 43, we dive deep into an often-overlooked but critically important topic: the different types of job boards used in the travel nursing industry—and how understanding them can make or break your job search. Read more
