When you work a regular nursing job through a hospital there are some pros of staying in the same place. For starters you will always be in your comfort level in your home surroundings. By staying at the same job for a long period of time, you meet more people at your job and know [...]

If you are working at a new travel nursing assignment in a larger city, like New York or Chicago, but decided not to take your car along, now you can get a rental for just the afternoon.
If you have never heard of Zipcar before I suggest checking it out. It is definitlely a great alternative to [...]

As a travel nurse you will have a lot of opportunities to make more money and live in a wide variety of locations, but just a quick word of caution. When you first hear the compensation packages for one area over another you may fall in love with the higher sounding per hourly travel nursing [...]

I have now made it safely back to the Omaha area from my trip home, and I have learned a little bit more about the airline industry.

There is nothing worse than being in a new city and realizing you are going to have to use a public restroom. One minute you are happily watching the local street performers and the next you are looking for relief. Uncertainty and fear strikes as you wonder, is the restroom… clean, safe, close, etc.?
Well now help is [...]

Keeping in shape while you are on the road as a travel nurse is not the easiest thing to do, the only thing more difficult may be getting in shape while on the road as a travel nurse. It is easy to opt for fast food instead of cooking something healthy and spending your free [...]

I came across this site last night and thought it was a great concept. Epstein LaRue of Highway Hypodermics is now offering, TravelNursingAgent.com, a web service that attempts to match travel nurses with travel nursing companies using a more specialized matching application. It is based on the travel nursing benefits that you are most interested in, the [...]

Over at Nurse.com I came across a very good list of the do’s and don’ts of deciding on a travel nursing company. They talk to a wide range of experts, from travel nurses to recruiters to hospital hiring managers to bring you a very comprehensive list of advice for new travel nurses to consider.
There were [...]

Over at RealityRN.com is a great article about making a good first impression as a nurse. Although it is aimed at new nurses entering the nursing workforce, it has a lot of good advice for travel nurses who are confronted with the challenge of making a good first impression on every assignment.
Some of the pieces [...]

One important factor in deciding which travel nursing assignment to take is the quality of the hospital you will be working in. A website I recently came across, Nursyz.com, allows you, as a nurse, to rate hospitals you work at for other nurses to read. This site could be a huge help when you are deciding [...]