Everything you need to know about travel nursing including finding travel nursing companies, negotiating pay, taxes, travel nursing jobs, and more.
Unfortunately, travel nursing contracts can and do get cancelled. While cancellations don’t happen too often, they can be demoralizing when they do. Cancellations happen for any number of reasons and at any period of the process. In this blog post, we’ll discuss some of the circumstances surrounding one specific cancellation scenario; when a travel nursing contract is cancelled just before it starts. Read more
Contracts are one of the cornerstones of travel nursing. But different agencies approach travel nursing contracts in different ways. In fact, it’s even possible that different recruiters within the same agency approach contracts in different ways. Specifically, some agencies and recruiters will consider a contract to be binding with a verbal agreement while other agencies and recruiters will consider the contract binding only if they receive a signed contract. In this blog post, we’ll discuss some of the issues surrounding verbal travel nursing contracts. Read more
Pay is among the most important variables that travel nurses must consider when determining whether or not to accept an assignment. In fact, travel nursing pay quotes are routinely requested and provided prior to the traveler being submitted for consideration to an open assignment. Unfortunately, these quotes end up being wrong more often than both recruiters and travelers would like. In this blog post, we’ll provide some background and offer 5 reasons that these mistakes occur. Read more
Travel nursing recruiters balance their time between recruiting new clients and servicing their existing clients. In our last blog post, we described the tasks typically involved in the travel nurse recruitment process and how those tasks are used to measure a recruiter’s job performance. In this blog post, we’ll take a closer look at the service aspect of travel nurse recruiting. Here again, knowing what’s going on behind the scenes can be very beneficial for travel nurses. Read more
Recruiters are a pivotal part of every travel nurse’s career. Recruiters are travelers’ primary interface with specific agencies and the job market in general. In fact, you’ll find many travel nurses who claim that recruiters are the single most important external component of their careers. This is why experienced travel nurses are always on the hunt for the best travel nursing recruiters. However, the recruiter’s day-to-day job duties and requirements remain a mystery to most. Knowing what’s going on behind the scenes can be very useful for travel nurses. Read more
It’s no secret that travel nursing pay rates fluctuate. Of course, that means that travel nursing pay rates decrease sometimes. During those times, travel nurses understandably speculate about the cause. The reality is that there are many intermittent and constant variables that negatively affect pay rates. So, in this article, we’ll take a look at 5 factors that contribute to lower travel nursing pay rates. Read more
Travel nurses maybe unaware that there is a burgeoning marketplace centered around collecting and exchanging their personal contact information. Even if you know about this marketplace, you may be shocked to find out just how valuable your personal contact information truly is. In this blog post, we’ll take an in depth look at the economics of “broadcast services” in the travel healthcare industry. Read more
