Travel Nursing Job Tips and Information

Being a travel nurse is a high calling. You’re serving patients in areas that need you the most, at hospitals where your help is vital to continuing quality care. Not only that, but you’ve probably got the most exciting job out of anyone you know – jet-setting to new assignments every few months, site-seeing each new city’s main attractions while also getting to experience living like a local.

Even so, the sting of feeling disconnected from friends and family back home can hit travel nurses when they least expect it. In a world where technology can do just about anything, long distance bonds are more possible than ever. Here are a few ways for travel nurses to stay connected with friends and family from afar. Read more

As a nurse, you know there are many stressors that come with the job. Exposure to communicable illnesses, working long and demanding shifts and dealing with sometimes less than pleasant patients, just to name a few. When you take on a traveling assignment, though, you get the added pressure of learning the set procedures at your new facility and navigating through an unfamiliar city. Since April is Stress Awareness Month, we want to highlight the specific stressors that come with being a travel nurse and how to handle them to help you stay at the top of your game: Read more

Taking the shifts you are handed comes with the territory when you’re a traveling nurse. Sometimes that means saying sayonara to the scheduled you are used to and taking the dreaded night shift. Getting through a night shift at work can feel like an eternity. Be ready to tackle the twilight zone with a combination of proactive and reactive techniques. They will help you achieve a happier and healthier work-life balance and ensure you stay alert when patients are counting on you. Here are some surefire ways to get you through the night shift. Read more