Everything travel nurses need to know about travel nursing jobs, including how to find them and what to expect while working them.
COVID-19 has left you feeling battered, somewhat beaten. If you cannot figure out how to convey to your friends and family what it is like to work on a COVID-19 unit, how could you ever find the words to put on your resume? Read more
The best specialties for travel nursing are those with the highest demand and the highest pay. However, those two attributes don’t necessarily go hand in hand. In this article, we’ll use data from our travel nursing job board to give you an idea of how various specialties rank for these two attributes. Read more
The life of a travel nurse can be incredibly fulfilling – it means an opportunity to try out new cities on a regular basis, experiment with different hospital settings, and meet a steady stream of new people. While this constant change can undeniably be a good thing, one mistake that I often see travel nurses make is not being intentional or deliberate enough about their personal brand. 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
Every nurse has heard the tired phrase: “You only work three days a week? That must be amazing!”. It is true that “only” three days a week seems great, but the reality is fitting in anything besides work on those three shift days can feel next to impossible. Trying to add in something that requires not just regular energy but extra energy like exercise? It is easy to see why many nurses throw in the towel before they even attempt to come up with a workout routine that fits into days they are working. 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
It typically takes 1 to 5 weeks to get a travel nursing job. However, a host of variables affect the length of time it takes to get a travel nursing job. As a result, it can take less than a week in some cases and much longer than 5 weeks in other cases. In this article, we’ll look at the factors that affect the time it takes to get a travel nursing job so you can approach the process with confidence. Read more
