Travel Nurse’s Guide to New Year’s Resolutions
Ah yes, with the start of the new year this past weekend, I’m sure everyone’s friends, families and coworkers are buzzing about their New Year’s resolutions; but let’s be real for a second, working out and eating better have been done and done again, so why not consider changing up your resolutions this year and promise yourself to fulfill new, exciting and more career-oriented resolutions? Don’t get me wrong, working out,...
10 Top Earning U.S. States for Nurses
A nurse’s job is more than a way to bring home a steady paycheck. It’s super demanding and challenging. Oftentimes, it can difficult to even put a pricetag on the duties of your average RN. With a little help from the Nurse Salary Guide, we’re proud to present you the leading states for bringing home that cheddar, that bread, that scratch. Whatever, you like to call it, here’s the lowdown on the leading U.S....
Notable Novels: Books for Travel Nurses
When it comes to travel nursing—-there’s a lot of details to consider. For a new graduate travel nurrse (and even some more seasoned nurses) it can be an absolute ordeal trying to seek answers to some of the most daunting questions about travel nursing. Anything from “can I bring my dog?” to “what happens if my contract gets cancelled early?” can be answered with the right resources. Luckily,...
The Perils of Canceling a Travel Nurse Contract
Did your grandmother just pass away for the third time this year? Or have you come down with the flu… again. Maybe it’s time to reconsider your career choice, because canceling or backing out of your contract is not something to take lightly. Of course, this is not meant to downplay family tragedies or nurses’ health and well-being. Agencies and recruiters want to support their nurses’ needs while being flexible, but going back on a...
Happiness Economics: Why You Should Spend Money on Experiences, NOT Things
For most of us, capitalism and a drive to keep up with the Joneses keeps our society in constant debt. We crawl through the financial turmoil in order to have the flashiest whip, the trendiest threads, and mortgages on homes that we will be paying off until we are are too old and feeble to even live in them any longer. Growing up, didn’t we want more than nice things? Didn’t we want that little old thing called happiness?...
How to Conquer a Cancelled Travel Nurse Contract
You would really think that in a highly-difficult to fill traveling nurse contract that it’d be almost impossible for the assignment’s contract to ever be ended. That is, of course, unless you get “fired” for missing shifts or something like that. But, believe me when I say, that it actually happens. Why would hospitals cancel and what is a travel nurse to do when they find themselves finished with their...