The Services Travel Nursing Companies Provide to Healthcare Employers

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Criticisms of travel nursing companies often frame these companies as unnecessary middlemen that gouge hospitals and force travelers to make less money. While travel nursing companies certainly are middlemen, that doesn’t necessarily mean they are net negative for the marketplace. In fact, middlemen in many industries actually add value by reducing costs. So, in this article, we’ll discuss the middleman narrative and review the services travel nursing companies provide so travel healthcare professionals and employers can approach this topic with confidence.
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Types of Supplemental Healthcare Staffing

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Supplemental healthcare staffing is when healthcare providers hire temporary workers to fill gaps due to temporarily high demand or general staffing shortages. It tends to be cyclical and typically accounts for 15% to 30% of the total healthcare workforce. In this article, we’ll provide an overview of the 4 main types of supplemental healthcare staffing: PRN, Seasonal, Travel Contracts, and Local Contracts.
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The History of Modern Travel Helathcare and Travel Nursing

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Traveling healthcare professionals have been around in some form or another as long as there have been people with a passion and desire to care for the health and well being of others. However, in this article we’ll focus on the modern supplemental healthcare staffing industry in the United States. Depending on how you define the beginning, it’s fairly common for industry insiders to place the genesis of this now massive industry sometime in either the 1970s, or 1980s. Read more

Critical Details for Your Travel Nurse Resume

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Your travel nurse resume can possibly play a big role in landing travel nursing jobs, especially the best jobs. Despite the nursing shortage, the competition to land the best jobs is fierce. In today’s market, facilities often receive more than 50 submission profiles within 3 hours of making a job public. It’s not uncommon to see assignments closed for new submissions within an hour of opening. Read more

Better Questions to Ask Travel Nursing Companies

5 Better Questions to Ask Travel Nursing Companies

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It’s crucial for travel nurses to know what questions to ask when they are evaluating a new travel nursing recruiter or company. Asking the wrong questions can lead to ambiguous answers and confusion. In this article, we’ll take a look at some of the most common bad questions travel nursing recruiters receive. Then, we’ll provide some alternative questions you should ask instead.
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