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.
If you are like most travel nurses headed for a new assignment you are excited to get out on the road and get started. But before you head out make sure you follow these tips to get you to your assignment while saving money on the way. Set a daily budget: As you know you [...]
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.
I came across this ebook called Hello Agency Nurse the other day and it made me think about the fact that despite all the great benefits that come with a travel nursing job, it can still make a difficult job tougher if you face resentment and resistance from the permanent nurses you work with at some assignments. Looking through the preview [...]
If you are a new nurse grad or approaching your graduation soon and want to be a travel nurse I have good news and bad news. The bad news is that typically travel nurse companies and their client hospitals want at least two years experience in a hospital setting in your specialty first. So you are [...]
I was recently asked an interesting question by a fellow nurse via email. She was considering her first travel assignment and was also in the market for a new vehicle. She asked me what type of vehicle I would recommend for travel nursing. My first response was, “Um, the one in which you can stuff [...]
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.
With nurses getting more and more empowerment in their jobs, it stands to reason that their roles would be extended as well. A lot of nurses have become nurse practitioners, which lessens the load of the doctor and also eases the bill for the patient. Because nurses don’t cost as much for their services, it’s [...]
This past week I received an email from a nurse that wanted to start traveling. However, her specialty was one in which you do not find many travel positions. This week I wanted to post my advice to her should any of you find yourself in the same boat. As most of you know, if [...]
Awhile ago I posted about ebook readersand how they let you take a library with you on a travel nursing job. Which is a great idea if you are a techie person, but if you are a little more old fashioned love to hold the book in your hand, then another solution might be the [...]
There are a lot of great travel nursing blogs out there and some other sites have done a good job of compiling them into “Top Lists” (Top 50 Travel Nursing Blogs, Top 100 Travel Nursing Blogs, The Ultimate Guide to Travel Nursing: 100+ Resources and Guides), but here at Travel Nursing Blogs.com we are always checking [...]
Is one of your New Year’s resolutions to find a new travel nursing company?
Well, one of the best ways to find a good travel nursing company is through referrals from other travel nurses. A referral lets you get the inside scoop, beyond what their website says or what their recruiters tell you. Because face it a company’s website is not going to tell you if they are always late with your paycheck or if they will forget to call you for weeks at a time while you are on a travel nursing job.
I have always wanted to travel to New York and it is still on my “to do” list. However, when you travel to any big city such as New York or San Francisco, special consideration must be given to the transportation you will use while on assignment.
As a traveling nurse you already have much to adjust to. Perhaps you’re moving from east to west so you have the differing time zones which can put your sleep schedule all out of whack. Then there’s the new hours in which you’ll be working, maybe going from day to night shift and there’s also the possibility of you taking on a different role. The list is vast when it comes to making the adjustments for travel nurses. The most important of these changes is within the traveling nurse themselves.
Last week we talked about preparing for the start of a new assignment. Despite swearing that I would never follow in my mother’s footsteps of being a “list” person, I must say that a good “to-do” list can be very helpful in keeping track of all the things that need to be accomplished when embarking on a travel assignment.
