9 Tips to Alleviate Travel Assignment Anxiety

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.

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? 

Life as a professional healthcare traveler requires you to move about every 13 weeks. In the past, reserving short-term housing may have been an uphill battle with few choices—but today, the search for temporary housing never been easier. From a fully-furnished Airbnb to renting a travel RV, your housing options as a healthcare traveler are plentiful.