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

How To Never Complete Another Travel Nursing Job Application or Skills Checklist

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This short video explains how travel nurses and travel healthcare professionals can use BluePipes to reduce their paperwork burden, increase their reach in the travel nursing job market, increase their chances of landing their most desired assignments, and force travel nursing agencies to compete for their business. Over 50 agencies have already contacted us to let us know that they will accept your BluePipes documents and there are many others that are accepting them but haven’t contacted us. Read more

What You Should Know about Travel Nursing Pay for Testing and Paperwork

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Travel nurses are consistently bombarded with paperwork and testing for each new travel nursing job they accept. It’s not uncommon for travel nurses to spend 6 to 12 hours completing paperwork and taking tests prior to even starting the assignment and that’s not counting the various physical exams that must routinely be taken. In many cases, agencies do not pay for the time spent completing these tasks. This leaves many travel nurses feeling like they’re getting ripped off and wondering how this is possible. Read more

12 Types of Travel Nursing Bill Rates

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What are travel nursing bill rates and why are they important?

A travel nursing bill rate is the hourly rate that a hospital agrees to pay a travel nursing agency for an hour of a travel nurse’s time at work. Bill rates are important to travel nurses because they’re the foundation of the travel nursing pay package. They determine how much money the travel nursing agency has to work with for a particular assignment. Therefore, higher bill rates typically mean higher pay rates.

Bill rates can vary from hospital to hospital. Sometimes, they even vary within the same hospital.  Meanwhile, there are several different types and categories of bill rates. In this article, we’ll define and discuss the most common types and categories of bill rates so you can approach this topic with confidence.

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3 Pitfalls When Discussing Travel Nursing Pay and How to Avoid Them

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Travel nursing pay packages are comprised of many different variables which can make accurate quantification quite difficult. Different recruiters have different ways of explaining travel nursing pay which further complicates the issue. Moreover, the lack of generally agreed upon vocabulary to describe pay packages adds yet more confusion. We’ve previously discussed how to break down pay packages for the purpose of comparing them. Here we’ll discuss some of the communication pitfalls to watch out for when obtaining information.  Read more

Networking: The Hidden Benefit of Travel Nursing

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Many benefits of travel nursing are widely touted by travel nurses and agencies. Some of the more commonly touted benefits include great pay, flexibility, travel, staying out of workplace politics, and increased variety. However, one of one of the least recognized advantages of travel nursing is the enhanced professional networking opportunity it provides. Of all the advantages, this maybe one of the most beneficial. Read more

Travel Nursing Blacklists

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When travel nurses get banned from working with a particular travel nursing employer, it is commonly referred to as blacklisting, blacklisted, or blacklists. However, employers commonly refer to the action as DNU (Do Not Use), DNC (Do Not Call), or DNS (Do Not Send). It’s important for travel nurses to thoroughly understand the issues involved with this action because it can have huge implications for their careers as travel nurses and beyond. Read more

When a Hospital Ends A Travel Nursing Agency Contract

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As we’ve mentioned previously, travel nursing companies need to have contracts with hospitals in order to send their travel nurses and other healthcare professionals there for work. These contracts take many forms. But like any contract, they can be voided if the terms are breached. When this happens, travel nurses are often left wondering what will happen to them. Read more