Travel Healthcare Housing Tips from the Fusion Marketplace Advice Corner

Finding housing when you’re just getting started as a traveling healthcare professional can be a challenge, and making temporary lodging feel like home doesn’t always come naturally either. We asked Fusion Marketplace travelers for their best travel nurse housing tips and tricks, so you feel more prepared as a new traveler. Check out their traveler advice for finding housing that works for them and making it a home while they’re on assignment!

Starting something new or something unknown can bring up feelings of anxiety. Remember that feeling you’d get in the pit of your stomach when you were a kid and the first day of school was approaching? What will you wear? Who will you sit with at lunch? What will your teacher be like? The veil of questions that washed over you as you replayed that first day over and over in your head. And sometimes, that’s how it feels before you start a new travel assignment—like you're out of your element.

Taking the leap into the healthcare travel lifestyle is an adjustment, to say the least. From packing up and moving every 13 weeks to new technology to learn, life as a professional traveler is full of constant change and adventure.

Wouldn’t it be great if there was a general travel nursing rulebook complete with dos and don’ts of the profession, as well as tricks to make it easier? Through the daily pressure to care for their patients, travel nurses often forget to practice self-care and find themselves as a nursing “horror story.”