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Ask a Travel Nurse: Are Consistent Contracts Possible for Travel Nursing?

By David Morrison R.N. on Jan 25, 2012 in Ask a Travel Nurse, Travel Nursing, Travel Nursing Career Advice, Travel Nursing Life

Ask a Travel Nurse Question: I am an experienced OR Nurse (over 35 years) and also an experienced Traveling Nurse. I have been permanent for the last three years and I am considering traveling again. I would like to know how the travel nurse industry is holding up (in our current economic situation) in terms [...]

Travel Nursing Checklist Item #17: Accepting the travel nursing job

By Jeff on Nov 06, 2009 in Travel Nursing, Travel Nursing Career Advice, Travel Nursing Checklist

At this stage in the travel nursing process you should hopefully be hearing one way or the other about the hospital’s decision to hire you. Sometimes the hiring manager will offer you on the job right on the phone, though that is more rare. Most often what will happen is that the hospital hiring or nurse manager will get back in touch with their contact at your travel nursing company who will let them know that they are interested in offering you the travel nursing job.

14 questions to ask your travel nurse recruiter

By Jeff on Oct 02, 2009 in Travel Nurse Company, Travel Nursing, Travel Nursing Career Advice, Travel Nursing Questions, Travel Nursing Tips

Finding the right travel nursing recruiter is something you can either let happen by accident or you take a proactive approach and ask the right kind of questions to make sure you find the best recruiter for your personality. The relationship you have with your recruiter needs to be one based on trust and respect, so [...]

Ask a Travel Nurse: What should I do if the hospital cancels my contract?

By David Morrison R.N. on Sep 23, 2009 in Ask a Travel Nurse, Travel Nursing, Travel Nursing Career Advice

In last week’s post, I mentioned that there might come a time when a hospital terminates your contract. Although it is rare for this to happen, in over a decade of travel, I can say that I have had two contracts that were terminated by the hospital. Let’s take a look at a few things [...]

Ask a Travel Nurse: Can I be a travel nurse as a nursing manager?

By David Morrison R.N. on Sep 09, 2009 in Ask a Travel Nurse, Travel Nursing Career Advice

I had a question from a reader that is a director of an emergency room and wondered if there would be any travel positions for him in this capacity. I wanted to blog on this because from time to time I do hear from people with specialized positions that wish to travel. In reply to [...]

Ask a Travel Nurse: What are the advantages of owning a "tax home" as a travel nurse?

By David Morrison R.N. on Sep 02, 2009 in Ask a Travel Nurse, Travel Nurse Housing, Travel Nurse Taxes, Travel Nursing, Travel Nursing Benefits, Travel Nursing Career Advice, Travel Nursing Tips

In my last post I spoke about maintaining a home while you are on the road traveling. This week, I wanted to address the advantage of doing such a thing. The thing I have always loved about travel nursing is that the housing is provided by your travel company. Were it not for this, [...]

Travel nursing checklist item #16 – The travel nursing job interview

By Jeff on Aug 20, 2009 in Travel Nursing, Travel Nursing Career Advice, Travel Nursing Checklist

The next step in the Ultimate Travel Nursing Checklist that you will be aware of is the travel nurse interview. Between being submitted and interviewed may be a bit of waiting for you. But at the hospital and the travel nursing company a bit more is going on.

A website to help you if life's little annoyances didn't stop when you became a travel nurse

By Jeff on Aug 14, 2009 in Life on the Road, Travel Nursing, Travel Nursing Life, Travel Nursing Tips

When you are working in a new travel nursing job in a new city, you still are going to have some of the day to day troubles that you have at home (sorry). Things like your car breaking down and needing repair or you need to find a good dry cleaner, someone to hem your [...]

Ask a Travel Nurse: How can I be an independent travel nurse?

By David Morrison R.N. on Aug 12, 2009 in Ask a Travel Nurse, Travel Nursing, Travel Nursing Career Advice

A reader, unhappy with her agency, recently wrote to me asking about the possibility of either independently contracting or even starting her own travel nursing agency. Who of us out there hasn’t dreamt of the possibility of being our own boss? This is especially true for those of us travel nurses who have an idea [...]

Featured Travel Nursing ER (Emergency Room) RN Job in California

By Jeff on Aug 10, 2009 in ER RN Travel Nursing Jobs, Travel Nursing Jobs, Travel Nursing Jobs in California

Come enjoy beautiful Coastal California for your next travel nursing job! Just over an hour from Los Angeles. This hospital is looking for a strong ER (Emergency Room) nurse to work nights in one of the most beautiful areas in the country. The traveling RN must have 2 years ER level II or higher experience, [...]

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