{"id":343,"date":"2009-04-07T09:40:43","date_gmt":"2009-04-07T14:40:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.travelnursesource.com\/notes\/?p=343"},"modified":"2017-08-30T16:35:37","modified_gmt":"2017-08-30T20:35:37","slug":"overtime-could-benefit-travel-nurses-most","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.travelnursesource.com\/notes\/overtime-could-benefit-travel-nurses-most","title":{"rendered":"Overtime Could Benefit Travel Nurses Most"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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By Christine Whitmarsh, RN, BSN<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Now is the time to review your travel nursing agency\u2019s policy on overtime along with your current assignment contract. One of the temporary fixes for the nursing shortage that appears to be benefiting both staff and travel nurses is increased opportunities for working lucrative overtime hours (double time in some rare cases). Since the pay scale for traveling nurses is predominantly higher than it is for staff nurses overtime has the potential of catapulting the travel nurse into an entirely new salary bracket \u2013 the six figure kind.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re looking for assignment destinations, travel nursing assignments<\/strong><\/a> in California<\/strong><\/a> are among the highest paying nursing positions in the country. California is among the states with the greatest need for nurses to staff the state\u2019s abundance of hospitals. At some hospitals in the Sacramento area, for instance, rates, take effect after 8 hours.<\/p>\n

Questions about a hospital\u2019s overtime policy are some of the most important ones to ask your recruiting contact prior to starting a new assignment.\u00a0 It is also important to remember that hospitals are facing the same economic downturn as the rest of us. Asking about a hospital\u2019s overtime policy, in the midst of your other questions, is entirely different than \u201cdemanding\u201d overtime pay. Discuss the matter of working extra shifts and how you will be reimbursed (hospital or agency) with your travel nurse recruiter<\/strong><\/a>. Your agency can also assist you with the rest of your pre-assignment checklist, including important questions to ask your new nurse manager.<\/p>\n

Travel Nurses:<\/strong> How do you handle the issue of reimbursement? What kinds of experiences, positive and negative, are you experiencing in regards to overtime hours to help with the nursing shortage?<\/p>\n

\"\"Christine Whitmarsh is a Registered Nurse with a BSN from the University of Rhode Island. She is a freelance health journalist and medical writer and a contributor to Travel Nurse Source<\/a> and Allied Travel Careers<\/a>.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Christine Whitmarsh, RN, BSN Now is the time to review your travel nursing agency\u2019s policy on overtime along with your current assignment contract. One of the temporary fixes for the nursing shortage that appears to be benefiting both staff and travel nurses is increased opportunities for working lucrative overtime hours (double time in some […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4416,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,6,10,8,15,17],"tags":[28,30,31,379],"class_list":["post-343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nursing-issues","category-nursing-shortage","category-nursing-shortage-solutions","category-nursing-students","category-travel-nurse-destinations","category-travel-nursing-jobs","tag-california-travel-nursing-jobs","tag-travel-nurse-advantages","tag-travel-nurse-benefits","tag-travel-nursing-jobs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelnursesource.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelnursesource.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelnursesource.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelnursesource.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelnursesource.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelnursesource.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4417,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelnursesource.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions\/4417"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelnursesource.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelnursesource.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelnursesource.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelnursesource.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}