There is much to prepare for when leaving on your next travel nursing assignment and how you handle your mail and bills is a very important one to think about. Thankfully the 21st century has given us many alternatives to how we can send and receive mail.
Being a traveling nurse it’s easy to think of yourself as just a fill in for a short time, but it’s obvious you’re more than that. You were hired not only to fill a need within the hospital but to do your job as a Registered Nurse. With that comes many responsibilities and number one being patient care.
I’m sure a lot of you have aspirations of doing great things with your profession, whether it’s to run the floor as the head nurse or run the whole hospital. In order for you to climb that ladder of success you first must make it known that you have goals and that you have the skills necessary to succeed. As a traveling nurse, it’s easy to think that you’re just there to fill in, but just because it’s a temporary position doesn’t mean you can’t let your skills shine, especially those that you have a strangle hold on.
So you’re in need of a job and you’ve got all the necessary skills and knowledge, but you can’t seem to get the job you desperately seek. Why is that? Well, landing the job you seek can be tricky and besides having all the skills, you’ll also need to have a couple other things on your side. Interview chemistry, experience and of course a little luck doesn’t hurt either. Besides the obvious blunders that would prevent anyone from landing a travel nurse job, here are few others that you should take care of to help you get that job.
Recycling is very much like reusing, except with the purpose of creating new stuff out of old stuff instead of wasting time, energy and useable resources like glass, plastic, aluminum, paper, and wood. By recycling we reduce the need for raw materials that make the products and things we can recycle.
Last week I wrote about ways in which you can reduce energy use and other ways in which you can save yourself money and the planet while working your next travel nursing assignment . Today I will expand on ways you can be green by reusing, or repurposing items – taking a once useful item and using it again to suit your new need. It’s a lot easier than it sounds and all it takes is just a little creativity.
Being a travel nurse can really make living easy. Your housing is provided, your utility bills paid and you’re making great money. With all these wonderful benefits of travel nursing it can be easy to get carried away and live a frivolous life. That’s fine as long as you can afford to, but there are some matters in which you should really take a closer look at, more specifically what you waste.
Being a travel nurse affords you the freedom many in the workforce will never get to experience. Typically those who work a permanent position have to stick to a schedule and use paid time off to enjoy time away from the office or wherever it is they are employed. Traveling nurses on the other hand have choices, and many at that. As a travel nurse you have the option to keep working year-round or plan on taking some much needed time off between assignment, it’s all up to you.
Traveling to your next assignment without your pooch (or kitty-were not discriminating!) would seem incomplete. You come home everyday to find them waiting by the door to greet you, that it would seem like something is amiss if they weren’t along for the ride. So there’s no reason you shouldn’t take along your favorite furry friends with you on your travel nursing assignments, just as long as you set it up with the staffing agency you are working with.
And the winner is… The day has finally come and we’re proud to announce the three winners in the ‘Give It a Shot! Nurses Week T-shirt Challenge!’ The contest has concluded as of last Monday but we were unable to decide on the winning designs until Wednesday due to an unforeseen illness, which was welcomed by the judges due to high number (138) of entries! This extra time gave them a better look at all the designs and they were able to choose wisely. Read all about the contest at Fibers.com and see the top three entries, all of which have explanations of why the design was chosen as the winner.
The age old question about travel nursing is how much more can a traveling nurse make versus being a permanent staff nurse where they live? It’s pretty well known that a travel nurse will take home more pay than that of a staff nurse, and that’s just including salary.
Hopefully by now you’ve heard about and better yet, entered the ‘Give It a Shot! Nurses Week T-shirt Challenge’ that Medical Solutions and Fibers.com are co-hosting in celebration of Nurses Week 2010. The month long contest started on April 12th and will conclude at the end of Nurses Week, May 12th and as of today there are over 90 entries, filling 4 pages of various nursing inspired brilliance. All the various designs really have given me great insight to what people think about the nursing profession and what nurses think about themselves. There are some truly wonderful designs. Some more heartfelt, while the others are just plain witty! Good stuff!
If any of the readers here were wondering where I’ve been the last couple of weeks, well let me just tell you. Maybe you’ve heard of this little contest that’s going on right now – and I hope you have, otherwise those two weeks have been wasted. The ‘Give It a Shot! Nurses Week T-shirt Challenge.’ has been my focus as of late and it’s the first contest of any sort that Medical Solutions and Fibers.com has ever hosted, so I’ve been working diligently on trying to get the word out to make it as big a success as possible. So far so good! As of today we have 78 entries and counting.
Travel nursing is a unique profession in nature, one that enables you to take your skills and knowledge on the road for 13 weeks at a time. The nursing shortage allows you to choose from various locations around the country, some great and others, well others that might not be all that. But it is your choice and your decision to make the most out of any assignment you take on. Being a traveling nurse can give you that ability to afford a lifestyle that you may not typically be use to, say if you were a perm nurse. Of course there are pros and cons to both and we won’t get into that now… No, today we will discuss what you can do if you are in a location that might not be so glamorous.
It comes to me as no surprise that nurses may feel a little unappreciated at times… And last years contest, “My Worst Nurse’s Week Gift… Ever” was proof positive. With over 650 submissions, I’d say that nurses being unappreciated is an understatement, at least when it comes to this once a year celebration. You should read a few of them, I mean really, a bar of cellulite soap? Seriously!? I want to meet that person who thought it would be good idea to hand those out!
