Everything travel nurses need to know about travel nursing jobs, including how to find them and what to expect while working them.
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.
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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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
The compliance and credentialing process is one of the biggest burdens that travel nurses have to contend with when landing a new travel nursing job. In this article, we’ll explain why this process has become so burdensome and provide tips and tools to help travel nurses navigate it with confidence. Read more
Professional references are both extremely important and difficult for travel nurses to manage. So, in this article, we’ll cover everything travel nurses need to know about professional references so they can approach this issue with confidence.
