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

By Jeff on Nov 06, 2009 in Featured Article, 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 Featured Article, 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 make [...]

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, Featured Article, 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, Featured Article, 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, Featured Article, 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, I, and [...]

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

By Jeff on Aug 20, 2009 in Featured Article, 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 Featured Article, 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, Featured Article, 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 of [...]

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, must have 2 [...]

Guest Author: DegreeFinders – Travel Nursing And An Online BSN Degree – You can do both!

By Jeff on Jul 31, 2009 in Guest Author: DegreeFinders, Travel Nursing, Travel Nursing Career Advice

What is a travel nurse?
The concept of hiring registered nurses that travel in their hometown or across the country developed in the 1980s when the healthcare industry realized that there was a serious shortage of nurses. At that time travel nurses were considered a short-term fix for states like Arizona and California where there were [...]

Ask a Travel Nurse: How do you handle all the CEU’s if you are licensed in a few different states?

By David Morrison R.N. on Jul 28, 2009 in Ask a Travel Nurse, Featured Article, Travel Nursing Tips

A reader recently asked, “How do you handle all the CEU’s if you are licensed in a few different states?”
This can start to be a chore if you are licensed in many different states. I have held licenses in close to a dozen states, but might only use two or three in any given two [...]

Ask a Travel Nurse: How can I find a travel nursing job in this economy?

By David Morrison R.N. on Jul 22, 2009 in Ask a Travel Nurse, Featured Article, Travel Nursing, Travel Nursing Career Advice, Travel Nursing Tips

Last week I posted regarding first-time travelers. This week I wanted to follow up and address those of you who have travel experience, but are still having a hard time finding an assignment in this economy.

As most of you know, you must have a year’s worth of experience in the field in which you wish [...]

Ask a Travel Nurse: Does past experience in different specialties make me more flexible as a travel nurse?

By David Morrison R.N. on Jun 17, 2009 in Ask a Travel Nurse, Featured Article, Travel Nursing

I was recently asked by a reader if they could travel in a certain specialty if they had experience, but not necessarily recent experience.
This usually occurs with those of us who have had many years in nursing, but have not practiced all of those years in the same specialty. The reader who wrote to me [...]

Ask a Travel Nurse: How are traveler nurses are being received at hospitals?

By David Morrison R.N. on Jun 09, 2009 in Ask a Travel Nurse, Featured Article, Travel Nursing

A few weeks back a reader had posted a comment asking how members of the regular hospital staff were when welcoming travelers. Using the same response as another posting reader who chimed in, it all depends.
In over a decade of travel I have had assignments where I did not want to leave and assignments where [...]

Ask a Travel Nurse: With the way the economy is right now, should I still consider travel nursing?

By David Morrison R.N. on May 27, 2009 in Ask a Travel Nurse, Featured Article, Travel Nursing, Travel Nursing Tips

Recently, someone had emailed me a question asking, “With the way the economy is right now, should I still consider travel nursing?” As with most questions, the answer is seldom the same for any two people.
Being a current traveler, I can tell you without doubt, there are still plenty of travel positions out there. However, [...]

Guest Author Series- Enjoy The Journey

By Jeff on May 20, 2009 in Featured Article, Guest Author: Courtney Childers Thornton, Life on the Road

Too often in our society, we focus on reaching the next step or conquering the next goal. Before my husband and I began traveling, we were on the same tract as most young professionals. Everything came in sequence—get the right job, buy the right house, get the right promotion, etc. Travel nursing helped us change [...]

Guest Author Series – How To Avoid Boredom On The Road

By Courtney Childers Thornton on May 06, 2009 in Featured Article, Guest Author: Courtney Childers Thornton, Life on the Road, Travel Nursing

When we first decided to start traveling, I was pretty excited about quitting my job. Spring was in the air, I had cabin fever, and let’s be honest—the idea of sitting beside a sparkling, blue swimming pool all summer sounds great to all of us. But when we reached my husband’s first assignment, it was [...]

New Guest Author series

By Jeff on Apr 24, 2009 in Featured Article, Guest Author: Courtney Childers Thornton, Life on the Road, Travel Nursing Tips

We are excited to introduce a new four post series about life on the road from the spouse of travel nurse’s perspective. If you haven’t read Courtney Childers Thornton’s blog, Adventures in Travel Nursing, you are missing out on a lot of great insight into the travel nursing lifestyle. We hope this series will help you [...]

Tell me a little about yourself

By Jeff on Apr 03, 2009 in Featured Article, Travel Nursing Life, Travel Nursing Questions, Travel Nursing Tips

In this next installment of the Ultimate Travel Nursing Questions we are going to give you some questions you can ask about the travel nursing company you are considering traveling with. With the economy the way it is right now you want to make sure you are working with a financially stable travel nursing company [...]

Move to the front of the line

By Jeff on Mar 13, 2009 in Featured Article, Travel Nursing, Travel Nursing Tips

You have seen the stories and probably even experienced it yourself as a travel nurse. Travel nursing jobs are not as plentiful right now, but what steps can you take to make sure you stand out among the stacks of profiles on nurse managers desks? One simple way is to make sure you have completed [...]

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