Whether you are on your first travel nursing assignment or twentieth there is nothing more important than getting a good night’s sleep before your first day. Actually you need great sleep before each shift too, but for this post we are just focusing on your first day of an assignment. Your first day at your travel nursing [...]
At this point your stuff is all unpacked and it’s been a long drive. You are tempted to crawl into bed and sleep until you are supposed to be at the hospital. Don’t. The first thing you need to do now is find where the hospital is. The experience you have on any of the travel nursing [...]
After arriving at your travel nurse housing the best thing you can do (assuming you have given yourself enough time and don’t have to be at the hospital the next morning) is to take an afternoon or so and unpack and get settled in. You may be thinking “I’m only going to be there for [...]
Now that you have arrived at your housing you may find yourself in a hurry to move in and go explore your new city and get ready for your assignment. But first there are a few things you need to take care of. If you are working with a good travel nursing company, you should have [...]
Just like we said in the last segment of the Travel Nursing Checklist, preparing to arrive at your assignment is crucial to your success as a travel nurse because being late to your assignment is not a good way to make a good impression on your new manager. The last post talked about preparing your [...]
By this point in the travel nursing process you are getting so close to actually working your first assignment. Now you just have to make sure you and your car are prepared to make the drive. You may be wondering why this small part of the process is getting its own section in the Travel [...]
OK. You have made all the arrangements you need to handle before you leave and taken care of all the items in Travel Nursing Checklist Item #20: Getting ready to leave for your travel nursing job. Now you are ready for the fun activity of packing your belongings into your car that you are going [...]
When it comes time to leave for your travel nursing job there can be a lot to remember to do. This list should help you from drowning in post-it-Notes. Mark the date on your calendar and work backwards to check off the things you are going to need to take care of before you leave. This [...]
Hooray! You have the travel nursing job, now what do you do? Well, first things first, you are going to need to know your start date, which you should get with the first day instructions your travel nursing company provides you. Once you know that you can start your planning. After that, you need to ask [...]
So now you are discouraged, you have gone through all the work of working with your recruiter to get you an interview for the travel nursing job you want, you had a great interview and hit it off with the nurse manager interviewing you and you know you are qualified for the job, but you [...]
