Everything travel nurses need to know about travel nursing jobs, including how to find them and what to expect while working them.

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

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

The Basics About Direct Relationships Between Travel Nursing Companies and Hospitals

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As we’ve mentioned previously, there are 3 general types of contractual relationships that travel nursing companies can have with healthcare employers. Travel nurses can navigate the system more efficiently and with greater confidence when they have a solid understanding of these relationships. So, in this article, we’ll drill down on “direct relationships”.
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The Basics About The Contracts Between Travel Nursing Companies and Hospitals

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A travel nursing company must have a contract with a facility in order to send travel nurses to work at the facility. It’s important for travel nurses to have a basic understanding of these contracts and their impact on the travel nurse. So, in this article, we’ll provide an overview of these contracts so travel nurses can better navigate the system.

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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