As you all are well aware, nursing can be a very stressful profession, which makes it so important to have at least one outside interest you can escape to. The beauty of travel nursing is that there are a lot of great hobbies out there make it a great career option for nurses.
Here are just […]

As I watched last night’s episode of Hopkins, there was a sequence where a patient attacked a nurse. This is a problem and no hospital or facility is immune.

Travel nursing is a career field where you will often find the time to make a lot of great new friends and memories. If you are at all creative this spells the perfect combination for creating a scrapbook of your travel nursing experiences. It just takes a little time, glue, paper and imagination to capture […]

In a very concerning story published in the New York Times, nurses and other personal care workers suffer from workplace assualts at an alarming rate. In fact the Bureau of Labor Statistics report that half of all nonfatal injuries resulting from workplace assaults occur in health care and social service settings.

Preparing to start a new travel nursing assignment in a new city or location you’re not familiar with? One thing you’ll want to know is where to find a convenient ATM that’s near your assignment or your housing.

Travel nursing tops the list of the 5 coolest jobs in healthcare according to NursingLink.com. I already think travel nursing is pretty cool, but it is nice to see it start to get more and more recoginition for what an amazing option it can be to a typical nursing career.
Some of the other healthcare careers look pretty intersting […]

As you are all well aware, unless of course you have no access to TV, radio, newspapers, magazines, internet; or have that one friend that insists on telling you where they stand in this election… Gus?! We are in the midst of an historical election year. Never has there been so much coverage on a […]

In this month’s Life on the go we continue our advice to help you pack more efficiently on your next travel nursing assignment.

In an intriuging way to address the nursing shortage a new site called NurseAuction.com has launched. It is an interesting concept where the site, which is free, allows nurses to bid on shifts and shift owners to bid on nurses in a “stock exchange” like market. I commented on this on a post at PixelRN.comif you want to read it, but […]

TravelNursing.com has a travel nursing podcast called Travel Nurse Talk that offers travel nursing advice worth checking out for those times when you are too busy to read. I always wanted to do this, but never got the chance (we my do something down the road yet, so keep your eyes open). Some of the topics they cover […]