How Healthcare Agencies are Bridging the Nursing Shortage Gap

You’re already well aware of the nationwide nursing shortage. In fact, this has haunted our country for decades; the U.S. has experienced nursing shortages off and on since the early 1900s and that upward trend isn’t set to stop anytime soon.

If you’re reading this blog post, chances are you’re either on your way to San Francisco for your next travel healthcare assignment, you’ve just arrived, or you’ve completed your traveler profile and you’re browsing Fusion Marketplace for jobs in the bay area.  Our goal here at Fusion Marketplace is to ensure an easy transition to your next assignment giving you all the tools and resources that you need to be successful.  We know that your success is our success and with that we aim to bring you a complete guide of San Francisco so that you can do what you’ve been hired to do: Take care of patients and most importantly - have fun on your days off.

You have the unique opportunity to experience scenic destinations across the nation as a professional travel nurse. Whether you’ve been hibernating through the brisk winter weather in a warm climate along the West Coast or you’ve been making snowmen in the Midwest, the perfect weather of a spring healthcare travel assignment is right around the corner. As you consider where to go next, check out these top five spring locations for travel nurses.

It’s true that not all heroes wear capes. Instead, some wear scrubs—like nurses. Nurses are everyday heroes who use their healthcare talent and passion for people to make our world a better place. From critical care to labor and delivery to neonatal care and more, registered nurses (RNs) can choose from a myriad of nursing specializations that will help them gain the knowledge and experience to save countless lives across the country.

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—