Everything you need to know about travel nursing including finding travel nursing companies, negotiating pay, taxes, travel nursing jobs, and more.
As we’ve mentioned previously, there are 3 general types of contractual relationships that travel nursing companies can have with healthcare employers. Travel nurses can navigate the system more efficiently and with greater confidence when they have a solid understanding of these relationships. So, in this article, we’ll drill down on “direct relationships”.
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I’ve been in the travel nursing industry since 2006. For as long as I can remember, travel nurses and agency staff alike have highlighted the differences between large travel nursing companies and small travel nursing companies. So, in this article, we’ll define big versus small travel nursing companies and discuss how the size of an agency may or may not affect the services they provide.
A travel nursing company must have a contract with a facility in order to send travel nurses to work at the facility. It’s important for travel nurses to have a basic understanding of these contracts and their impact on the travel nurse. So, in this article, we’ll provide an overview of these contracts so travel nurses can better navigate the system.
Criticisms of travel nursing companies often frame these companies as unnecessary middlemen that gouge hospitals and force travelers to make less money. While travel nursing companies certainly are middlemen, that doesn’t necessarily mean they are net negative for the marketplace. In fact, middlemen in many industries actually add value by reducing costs. So, in this article, we’ll discuss the middleman narrative and review the services travel nursing companies provide so travel healthcare professionals and employers can approach this topic with confidence.
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Supplemental healthcare staffing is when healthcare providers hire temporary workers to fill gaps due to temporarily high demand or general staffing shortages. It tends to be cyclical and typically accounts for 15% to 30% of the total healthcare workforce. In this article, we’ll provide an overview of the 4 main types of supplemental healthcare staffing: PRN, Seasonal, Travel Contracts, and Local Contracts.
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Traveling healthcare professionals have been around in some form or another as long as there have been people with a passion and desire to care for the health and well being of others. However, in this article we’ll focus on the modern supplemental healthcare staffing industry in the United States. Depending on how you define the beginning, it’s fairly common for industry insiders to place the genesis of this now massive industry sometime in either the 1970s, or 1980s. Read more
The compliance and credentialing process is one of the biggest burdens that travel nurses have to contend with when landing a new travel nursing job. In this article, we’ll explain why this process has become so burdensome and provide tips and tools to help travel nurses navigate it with confidence. Read more
