Everything travel nurses need to know about travel nursing jobs, including how to find them and what to expect while working them.
Kaiser Permanente is one of the largest healthcare employers in the state of California if not the largest. Kaiser is also one of the biggest users of travel nurses in California. In this blog post, we’ll provide some detailed information about travel nursing with Kaiser so that travel nurses know what to expect. Read more
One of the many issues that can cause friction when searching for a travel nursing job is the contract start date. Sometimes, the contract start-date is set in stone by the hospital and the nurse is unable to meet the requirement. Meanwhile, some circumstances necessitate nurses to maintain, or at least consider, firm start dates of their own. In any case, understanding the issues affecting contract start-dates can help travel nurses achieve greater success during their job searches.
During my time working for travel nursing agencies it was routine to hear candidates complain about being inundated with telephone calls and emails from recruiters. Then, last week, having been away from travel nursing for nearly 2 years, I received the same complaint while fielding a call from a new BluePipes member. Protecting your personal contact information, and in essence your privacy, as a travel nurse is clearly a problem and always has been. In this blog post, we’ll discuss the common ways in which a nurse’s privacy can be compromised and offer some privacy protection recommendations. Read more
Due to the temporary nature of travel nursing jobs, and the instability they sometimes exhibit, travel nurses are often at risk for underemployment. In fact, avoiding underemployment can prove to be a very difficult task. And frequent bouts of underemployment can have a serious negative impact on a travel nurse’s annual income. In this blog post, we’ll discuss “underemployment” as it relates to travel nursing and offer some recommendations for avoiding it and thereby maximizing your income. Read more
Travel nursing jobs are short term engagements typically lasting no more than 13 weeks. So it’s no secret that travel nurses engage in job searches more often than the average professional. What’s less understood is that certain realities in the travel nursing industry tend to exacerbate what labor economists refer to as “frictional unemployment.” In this blog post, we’ll discuss frictional unemployment, how it affects travel nurses, and how travel nurses can remedy the situation and save themselves time, trouble and money in the process. Read more
Operating room (OR) nurses work closely with patients, surgeons and other members of the healthcare team before, during, and after operations and other invasive procedures. The demand for OR travel nurses is consistently high. However, there are several factors that OR nurses should be aware of in order to properly manage a travel nursing career and set expectations. Read more
Over the past decade, more and more hospitals have turned to one of the various Vendor Management Service models to meet their travel nursing and other contingent staffing needs. In this blog post, we’re going to take close look at one of the more common Vendor Management Service models utilized in the healthcare staffing industry, the Managed Service Provider (MSP). In doing so, we’ll discuss the pros and cons of this model for travel nurses. Read more
