Everything you need to know about travel nursing including finding travel nursing companies, negotiating pay, taxes, travel nursing jobs, and more.
Travel nurses often express concern that premium recruiting services like Indeed, LinkedIn and Monster are “hands in the pot” that ultimately reduce travel nursing pay. In this article, we’ll take a look at the pertinent business fundamentals to clarify what’s going on behind the scenes. Read more
We often see travel nurses ask, “What is the average bill rate for a travel nurse?” In this article, we’ll dissect two reports that provide insight on the average bill rate for travel nurses. We’ll also take a look at how knowing the answer to this question may or may not be useful so you can approach this topic with confidence. Read more
Finding the best travel nursing agencies is both difficult and important. It’s important because travel nurses entrust these companies with some of the most crucial aspects of their lives. It’s difficult because there are over 250 travel nursing companies with ratings and reviews scattered across multiple resources. So, for a third consecutive year, we aggregated thousands of reviews from some of the most trusted resources to bring you this list of the best travel nursing companies of 2019. Read more
We often see potential travel nurses asking if they are too old to start travel nursing. Moreover, it’s important for travel nursing companies to know the age of their customers in order to provide the world-class service they deserve. So in this article, we take a look at all the age-related research we could find to determine the average age of travel nurses and other related details. Read more
Floating is a staffing policy that involves sending a nurse from their regularly scheduled unit to a unit that is in greater need of staff. Studies indicate that most nurses generally dislike floating. Therefore, it’s important for travel nurses to consider that most hospitals expect their travel nurses to float. Moreover, there are a host of unique floating related issues that travel nurses may not have encountered previously. In this article, we’ll discuss things that travel nurses ought to know about floating so they can approach the issue with confidence. Read more
It typically takes 1 to 5 weeks to get a travel nursing job. However, a host of variables affect the length of time it takes to get a travel nursing job. As a result, it can take less than a week in some cases and much longer than 5 weeks in other cases. In this article, we’ll look at the factors that affect the time it takes to get a travel nursing job so you can approach the process with confidence. Read more
The process of finding the perfect travel healthcare recruiter can be daunting. For starters, there are tons of different companies and recruiters. Moreover, different companies have access to different jobs. They also have different approaches to customer service and pay-packages. So, in this article, we’ll take a look at Nomadicare, a service designed to simplify the process by matching travel healthcare professionals with vetted recruiters based on fit. Read more
