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...
Will Travel Nursing Benefit from Mandated Nurse-to-Patient Ratios?
A bill is being considered in the Pennsylvania state legislature that would mandate specific nurse-to-patient ratios in hospitals. Legislation currently in place in PA states that hospitals and medical facilities provide “sufficient numbers of personnel to provide nursing care to meet the needs of all residents.” The pending legislation would specify the number of nurses required for each patient in hospitals and acute...
A Time for Job Searching Vigilance
by Christine Whitmarsh Whether the economy and closely connected job market is in a growth pattern or in a more stagnant and declining state like experts say we’re currently experiencing, it is extremely important to be proactive in your job searching. Whether the media is reporting a serious nursing shortage, in travel nursing careers or otherwise, or it’s one of those rare times when they’re not, it should not affect your job...
New Travel Nursing Job; New Procedures
By Christine Whitmarsh, RN, BSN One of the traditional challenges faced by the travel nurse, was (and to some degree still is) learning the policies, procedures, charting systems, terminology and the general “lay of the land” of new hospitals when they arrive. A travel nursing career means learning new patient care procedures, equipment, medication policies and equipment quickly. The good travel nurse knows how to rise to the...
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...
Travel Nurse Source helps 3,000 RNs find travel nurse jobs
As the year closes we at Travelnursesource.com look back on the last 12 month with humbling sense of gratitude. With a large number of travel nurse agencies to choose from roughly 3,000 travel nurses put their faith in us to help them find travel nurse jobs. This is sharp increase over the amount of nurses we placed in 2007. We also are very grateful for the partnership of 20 world class travel nurse companies that partner with us to...