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As a registered nurse (RN), you can choose two different paths that can significantly shape your career: travel nursing and staff nursing. Travel nursing offers opportunities to work in various healthcare facilities across the country, while staff nursing allows nurses to take permanent positions at the same facility for an extended period. Both options are rewarding career paths and there are benefits and drawbacks to both, depending on your preferences and lifestyle.
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, 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. For Tori, the right place was easy: she knew she belonged in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). Read more to learn how to become a NICU travel nurse and get a bonus insight into the life of a NICU travel nurse with Tori Meskin.
In today’s competitive market for the best healthcare travel rates and locations, knowing how to negotiate travel nurse pay and other contract elements is key. Seasoned travel couple, Chase and Lindsay, otherwise known as @wereoutnabout, offer tried and true advice they’ve implemented when landing travel assignments. Here are their do’s and don’ts for how to negotiate travel nurse pay!
It’s no deep, dark secret that travel nurses have historically been paid more than their staff counterparts. Usually because of tax-free per diems and stipends. But when the coronavirus pandemic hit the country in 2020, travel nurse pay skyrocketed and the demand for these specialized healthcare globetrotters soared along with it.
It takes a special kind of someone to care for patients through their final moments. And these particular healthcare workers are often hospice nurses.
What if there was a way to decrease the amount of time it took for you to find your next healthcare travel job? Imagine what you could do with all the extra time you’d get back.
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.”
One of the biggest challenges as a professional travel nurse is securing your next job assignment. Marketplace removes this key obstacle and puts you in the driver’s seat of your nursing career by connecting you with nationwide healthcare staffing agencies, job opportunities, flexible housing, and more all in one convenient location.
Throughout history, nurses have been on the frontlines, healing humanity, facing fatal situations such as war, poverty, and disease. Perhaps even more prevalent after this past year of healthcare crisis, nurses have offered their unwavering support and care for those who are ill.
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