Travel Nursing Blog

Everything you need to know about travel nursing including finding travel nursing companies, negotiating pay, taxes, travel nursing jobs, and more.

Uniti Med – Travel Nursing Company Profile

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Uniti Med is a rapidly growing, award winning healthcare staffing company based in Omaha, Nebraska. They staff acute care nursing, allied, long term care and Advanced Practice professionals nationwide. We’ll provide a detailed overview of Unit Med in this article so healthcare professionals can see why we think they should consider Uniti Med for their next travel assignment.
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Catapult Healthcare Solutions – Company Profile

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Headquartered in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, Catapult Healthcare Solutions is a rapidly growing national healthcare staffing agency that provides workforce solutions for clinical professionals including travel nurses, allied health, and other non-clinical healthcare professionals. In the past couple of years, Catapult has been recognized for multiple awards including 2022 Staffing Industry Analysts #1 Fastest Growing Staffing Firms, 2022 and 2023 Modern Healthcare’s Best Places to Work, 2022 Dallas Morning News Top 100 Places to Work, and 2022 The Texas Association of Business – #3 Overall Best Companies to Work for In Texas.  In this article, we’ll provide a detailed background on the company so travel healthcare professionals can see why they should consider Catapult Healthcare for their next assignment. Read more

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Travel Nursing: The Pros and Cons of a Float Pool Contract

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Travel nursing contracts these days are not quite as lucrative or easy to land as they were during the height of the COVID pandemic. However, float pool contracts are coming up more frequently, especially if a hospital is severely understaffed on all floors.

When you get the call from your travel nursing recruiter that there is a float pool position and the pay is better than anything else you’ve seen on the travel nurse job boards, make sure you know what you’re getting into before you commit. Read more

Best Travel Nursing Companies 2022

The Best Travel Nursing Companies 2022

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The best travel nursing companies for 2022 are here! To determine our list, we evaluated over 380 travel nursing agencies by aggregating over 108,000 reviews from 6 leading review sources. We selected the 20 highest rated companies based on our transparent scoring system which we describe in detail below.

This is our sixth year of spending massive amounts of time aggregating review scores for hundreds of travel nursing agencies to surface the highest scoring agencies. We are compelled to do this each year for several reasons. Read more

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Two Easy Ways to Get a Nursing License in Any of the 15 Non-Compact States

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Interested in obtaining your nursing license in a non-compact state?

Many of us have heard of the eNLC compact agreement: an agreement between 35 states that allows nurses to travel across state lines, with a compact license, to practice nursing. Read more

Travel Nursing Pay – The 50 Mile Myth for Tax Free Stipends

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The “50 Mile Rule” is one of the most common fallacies pertaining to tax-free reimbursements for travel nurses. It’s prominent among both travel nurses and travel nursing recruiters. Purveyors of this “rule” claim that it allows travel nurses to accept tax-free reimbursements as long as the travel assignment is 50 miles or more from the travel nurse’s tax home. This is incorrect. The IRS makes no such determination. In this article, we’ll thoroughly review this topic so travel nurses can approach it with confidence. Read more

Travel Nurse Housing Stipend

Everything You Need to Know About the Travel Nurse Housing Stipend

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The travel nurse housing stipend is one of the largest components of the travel nursing pay package. Unfortunately, the travel nurse housing stipend is also steeped in nuance and complexities. As a result, it can cause a lot of confusion. So, in this article, we cover everything you need to know about the travel nurse housing stipend so you can approach the issue with confidence. Read more