TTATN 46: How BluePipes Determines the Best Travel Nursing Companies of the Year
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Welcome to episode 46 of The Truth About Travel Nursing Podcast! In this episode, I take you behind the scenes of one of our most popular features at BluePipes: our annual list of the best travel nursing companies.
🔍 What You’ll Learn in This Episode:
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The origin story of the list and how it evolved from a comparison of existing rankings to a robust, independent system
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A detailed breakdown of the scoring methodology, including:
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Aggregated review data from five independent platforms
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Minimum review requirements to ensure legitimacy and scale
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Delta-based scoring that highlights year-over-year improvements or declines
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Why internal staff reviews are included—and why they matter
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What makes a company ineligible, including fake reviews and internal manipulation
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Why we include 20 companies, not 5 or 10
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The importance of working with multiple staffing agencies as a traveler
🏆 Explore the 2025 List
We just released the 2025 Best Travel Nursing Companies list.
👉You can view all our annual lists here!
This episode also sets the stage for the next one, where I’ll share everything you need to know about rating and review services and how to evaluate other “Best Travel Nursing Company” lists across the web.
🔗 Resources Mentioned:
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Review sources used in our scoring: Glassdoor, Indeed, Google, Facebook, Travel Nursing Central





