Travel Nursing Blog

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

Travel Nursing Pay – The Company’s Perspective: Part 1

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Perhaps the most complex and least understood aspect of travel nursing is travel nursing pay. Most blog posts I’ve read don’t provide a completely accurate explanation of the pay package. Some of them do a good job of explaining the travel nurse’s side of the pay package, but nobody comes close to offering a full explanation of what’s happening on the agency’s side of the equation. Understanding the agency’s side of the equation is extremely important as it will help you see right through the sly sales pitches and advertising gimmicks. Read more

How Many Travel Nursing Companies Should You Work With?

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Many travel nurses wonder if they should work with more than one travel nursing agency to help them land their desired job. The simple answer is yes! In this article, we’ll review everything travel nurses need to know about working with multiple agencies.
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How to Find the Best Travel Nursing Recruiters

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As we’ve previously written, you will most likely be able to find a large number of travel nursing agencies that can meet all your needs in terms of services, benefits and assignment locations. As a result, you will still be stuck figuring out which agencies to actually work with. That’s where finding great travel nursing recruiters comes into play.

Recruiters can make bad agencies good and good agencies bad. Unfortunately, it can be tough to find really good travel nursing recruiters. So, in this article, we’ll provide details and tips to help you find the best travel nursing recruiters.

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List of Travel Nursing Companies and General Contact Information

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Below is a list of over 200 travel nursing agencies. Please comment if you would like to add an agency to the list or if you find any incorrect or outdated information on the list. Read more

How To Find Travel Nursing Agencies that Work in Your Desired Destinations

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If you’ve read our articles about “Finding Travel Nursing Companies,” you’ll probably agree that the question becomes, “Are you finding the agency, or is the agency finding you?” If you stop to think about this, you’ll discover that your approach to finding travel nursing agencies may actually expose you to sneaky ways for agencies to find you. This isn’t necessarily bad. However, it behooves you to actually find agencies that can meet your needs as opposed to fielding random inquiries from random agencies.
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Finding Travel Nursing Agencies – A Time-Saving Strategy

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Determining which travel nursing companies you’re interested in working with as a travel nurse can be extremely time consuming. You need to have a strategy that cuts to the point. In this blog post I’ll lay out a strategy for accomplishing this. The strategy is basic and there are only two steps. First, determine exactly what you want from travel nursing and an agency. Second, immediately determine if agencies can meet your needs when speaking with them. Read more

Finding Travel Nursing Companies – Agency Recruitment Practices

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We’ve discussed the many methods travel nursing agencies utilize to obtain the contact information of healthcare professionals. Once they have the information, it goes in to a data base where it is put to use by the agency’s recruiters. The recruiter’s primary focus is to find candidates, determine their qualifications, sell them on travel nursing jobs they’re qualified for, and ensure that their submission profiles are completed. Read more