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Whether you have one minute or one hour, you should take some time to say hello and introduce yourself to new people.

Meeting new people on your next travel nursing assignment

By Patrick on Oct 31, 2011 in Life on the Road, Patrick's Travel Nursing Posts, Travel Nursing Career Advice, Travel Nursing Fun, Travel Nursing Life, Travel Nursing Tips

At TravelNursingBlogs.com, we want you to feel connected and comfortable in your working environment and in your new or existing community. Being a travel nurse means you have the opportunity to meet new people and make new friends all over the United States. Making new friends is one of life’s richest pleasures and is a [...]

You are what you post.

By Patrick on Nov 03, 2009 in Patrick's Travel Nursing Posts, Travel Nursing Career Advice, Travel Nursing Fun

In this day and age it seems like everyone and their grandma has some sort of profile on social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and so on. Theses tools are a great way for everyone to stay connected to one another, whether near or far. Travel nurses on assignment may find these sites particularly [...]

Rating a hospital with NurseRatings.org is so easy a crash test dummy could do it.

By Jeff on May 14, 2009 in Nursing, Travel Nursing, Travel Nursing Tips

I just ran across a site that if properly used could become a huge tool for travel nurses everywhere. NurseRatings.org. I don’t know if the creator of this site, which has the tag line “Nurses helping Nurses,” meant it to be for travel nursing or just a great tool for nurses everywhere, but whatever the intent, [...]

Guest Author Series – How To Avoid Loneliness On The Road

By Courtney on May 14, 2009 in Guest Author: Courtney, Life on the Road, Travel Nursing Life, Travel Nursing Tips

One of the hardest things about being married to a travel nurse is loneliness. You leave your friends, family, and coworkers behind to hop from place to place. Sometimes you may be lucky enough to land an assignment near friends, but more often than not, you will be living somewhere where you won’t know a [...]

Have iPhone will travel.

By Patrick on Apr 27, 2009 in Life on the Road, Patrick's Travel Nursing Posts, Travel Nursing, Travel Nursing Benefits, Travel Nursing Fun

If you are one of those travel nurses who loves to have the latest gadgets and can’t travel without your cell phone then you must have the iPhone from Apple. It’s a phone, camera, computer, etc… all in one! Sure there are other mobile devices and smartphones like the Blackberry, Palm and what have you, [...]

102nd Best Travel Nursing Website!

By Jeff on Apr 14, 2009 in Travel Nursing, Travel Nursing Fun

Onward Healthcare just came out with a list of the 101 Best Travel Nursing Websites. Although we didn’t make the cut, we can only assume we were 102nd. Seriously though we were glad to see two of our guest authors, Adventures in Travel Nursing (which is coming soon) and Travel-Nurse-Coach, a regular guest author of ours made the list. [...]

Like cable, but free

By Jeff on Feb 24, 2009 in Travel Nursing, Travel Nursing Fun

If you are a travel nurse who hasn’t heard of Hulu.com yet, then you are missing out. You may have seen their commercial during the Super Bowl (one of the better ones this year) and wondered what it was all about. Hulu is a online video website that provides commercial-supported streaming video of TV shows [...]

The Nurse Mafia (An offer you can’t refuse.)

By John and Janet from Travel-Nurse-Coach.com on Feb 18, 2009 in John and Janet from Travel-Nurse-Coach.com, Travel Nursing

Starting a new assignment takes a lot of planning. The one benefit of traveling is meeting new friends. Our daughter jokingly calls our network of health care travelers “the nurse mafia.” When we are looking for items and or information we usually reach out to other travelers. There are other practical benefits to contacting other [...]

Top 10 Reasons to be a Travel Nurse

By Amanda on Jan 02, 2009 in Amanda's Travel Nursing Tidbits

I thought I’d try to do a Top 10 list about the great reasons to be a travel nurse. Check it out and see if you have any other reasons that you think should be added.