February is the time of year when everyone starts trying to think of what in the world they are going to get their love for Valentine’s Day. As travel nurses or allied health professionals, a lot of you are away from the ones you love right now, making it seem more important than usual to [...]
Ask a Travel Nurse Question: My wife and I are both nurses and are starting to travel nurse. Her experience is in home health, hospice and LT care. My experience is ED, cardiac and CATH lab. We have signed with a couple different companies, but they seem to be looking more for me and not for [...]
Nursing, unlike other professions, makes it easy to jump in the water. I believe that once your circumstances and curiosity becomes greater than your fear of the unknown, you will begin looking for a contract. We did and do not regret the decision. 2012 will be a big year for us. We have started a [...]
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 [...]
Deciding to take your nursing career further by becoming a traveling nurse is a huge decision and one that takes careful planning. It’s not the easiest thing to just pick up and leave all that you are use to behind. You’ve established yourself and have made roots, all of which took a lot of time [...]
Packing for a travel nursing job is an unique challenge. It is not quite like a family vacation to California when you were a kid and not quite like the ordeal of moving residences. It is somewhere in between and still not fun, especially if you aren’t prepared. So here is a great website to help you [...]
Imagine finding the best ice cream in Green Bay or the greasiest pizza in New York. Now you can with another great tool and resource for you to plan fun things to do on your travel nursing job; MSN’s City Guides. It works a lot like Yahoo!’s Upcoming, (which I talked about in my last post) [...]
A reader recently contacted me with the question, “Am I required to float as a traveler?” The short answer is: Yes, welcome to the life of a traveler. In most facilities when the unit census is low, the travelers will be the first nurses to float to other units. However, this is another one of [...]
As a traveling nurse you have to be quick to get acclimated to your new surroundings and nothing can be more difficult than finding your place among the existing staff. If you’re a seasoned veteran of the traveling scene, you probably already have a good grasp as to what it takes to blend in, but [...]
