Housing for Travel Nurses: Company Housing vs. Stipend
When it comes to housing for travel nurses, there are usually two options. Nurses can either choose to live in housing that their agency provides, or they can receive a stipend to find and pay for their own housing. What does a travel stipend mean, and which is the better choice? Well, it depends. Below, we’ll weigh out both options, and hopefully, give you enough information to make a confident housing decision! Housing for...
5 Easy Tips on Decorating Temporary Housing
The constant change in scenery is part of the thrill of a travel job, but sometimes always being away from home can get a little frustrating. While we hope that you’ll make plenty of friends while on the road, it’s still important that you make your temporary housing as homey and welcoming as possible. You’ll be spending plenty of time at this new place, so it’s important to make the best of it. It’s important...
Tiny Homes for Travel Nurses
Travel nurse housing can be one of the main concerns of someone entering the field and the task of moving all of your stuff every few months or so can be intimidating. Moving around certainly has its perks if you like to travel, but it can be difficult for those who love to feel a sense of “home” everywhere they go. So, how can you combine the two? Tiny homes for travel nurses. Why do people choose tiny homes? Obviously, tiny homes...
The Beauty of the AirBnb
When you’re a travel nurse, the first thing you want to feel when you start your assignment is like you’re “at home.” It can be really tough finding the right fit or getting settled in terms of where you want to stay. You may have been able to choose the exact city you want to be in, but the most important thing (other than your patients, obviously) is finding your home away from home. And the answer to all your...
Pack like a Travel Nurse Pro!
So you’ve accepted your travel nurse assignment, and now you have to pack. There are your needs and your wants, and things that you think that you need. Determining what you really need can be more difficult than you ever thought, but as you get more and more assignments under your belt, you will be better able to know what to bring – you can hope anyway. But before you reach that point, some advice can be a real space saver. Find out...
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...