Nursing Shortage Alarms President Obama
By Christine Whitmarsh, RN, BSN Following through on his numerous campaign promises to fix America’s ailing healthcare industry, President Obama kicked off his second full month in office by holding a healthcare summit at the White House. During the summit, Mr. Obama presumably received some of the same information that we in the healthcare industry along with the public by way of the media, have been hearing about for quite some time...
Spotlight on Florida Travel Nursing: Hot Locations
By Christine Whitmarsh, RN, BSN A nursing career in Florida holds a special place in my heart because that is where I began my career as an RN. I can attest from personal experience that Florida is a great destination for travel nurses to add to their wish list. As a popular place to retire, the Sunshine state is a diverse mixing pot of retirees from all around the country and from all walks of life. The national almanac of...
Travel Nurse Source Website Highlights
By Christine Whitmarsh As a new blogger here on Travel Nurse Source, I recently took a self-guided tour of the website. Hopefully your travel nursing career will soon benefit from some of the site highlights and areas that I found to be especially useful. Home Page: Scroll down to the middle of the page and you’ll find a list of featured travel nurse job descriptions with location, salary and specialty area listed. This is a perfect...
Introducing Our New Travel Nurse Source Blog Contributor
Hello fellow nurses! My name is Christine Whitmarsh and I’m pleased to be the newest addition to the Travel Nurse Source team as a blogger here on the site. Here is a little about me so you can associate a name with a person. I earned my Bachelor of Science Degree in Nursing from the University of Rhode Island. I think I was the only nursing major who was also a music minor. In light of the steadily advancing practice of complementary...
Should a Travel Nurse Work With Multiple Travel Nursing Companies?
When embarking on a travel nursing career, many nurses face the dilemma of deciding whether to work with just one travel nursin company or multiple agencies. There are advantages to both approaches. Some travel nurses feel more secure when they have established a relationship with a single company and, in some cases, with a particular recruiter. There is a familairity that reduces the “learning curve” as each new...
Traveling Nurse Reputation
Everybody appreciates a compliment and travel nurses are no different. In a post on the website Medscape.com, a nurse offers her perspective on travel nurses that she has worked with and her opinion is quite positive. The poster contends that she has heard other nurses make derogatory remarks about the competency of nurses under contract through traveling nurse agencies. This nurse takes a position quite contrary to these statements...