5 Ways to Evaluate a Healthcare Travel Job

Whether you’re new to the healthcare travel life or you’re a seasoned traveler, you shouldn’t just accept the first travel job offer you receive. As a professional, you’re hot in demand and deserve the best of the best. The next time a job offer comes around, make sure you thoroughly evaluate the opportunity to make sure you’re happy with the fine print. Here’s how.

With so many job options, it can be difficult to know what to look for in a travel assignment and travel nurse recruiter. As a professional, you have a personal list of must-haves, but then, there are so many myths about healthcare travel and travel nursing problems circulating on the web, it can be hard to know what’s important in a job and what’s not. To help make your decision easier, check out these top six red flags to look for when in search of your next travel job and staffing recruiter.

They say that hindsight is 20/20. And that’s true, even when it comes to your travel career. How did you get into the travel nursing career? How can you start travel nursing? If you could go back in time and give your past-self career advice, what would it be? 

There would be no healthcare without nurses. And the current nursing shortage is proof.

Rawsi Williams, U.S. Army Veteran, licensed attorney, and registered nurse (RN) with more than 20 years of healthcare experience said, “To do what nobody else will do, in a way that nobody else can do, in spite of all we go through, that is what it is to be a nurse.”

Between travel logistics, employment paperwork, and taking care of patients, your time as a travel nurse is largely spoken for. When it comes to finding travel nurse housing during your job search, you have options—