Two weeks ago, on 1 October, Connecticut switched on the Nurse Licensure Compact. In July, Pennsylvania did the same. That makes 40 states where one multistate nursing license lets you work, the biggest single year of expansion since the compact was rebuilt in 2018. If you have been waiting for this...
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Three years ago we wrote a post asking whether travel nurses should be worried about contracts being cancelled and rates coming down. The honest answer now is that the rates did come down, a lot, and then they stopped. The market has settled. So this is a good moment to lay out what travel nursing a...
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Where to move next? A stressful question for some, but not for Registered Nurses who chose the travel nursing life! Thanks to a booming job market, there are always plentiful promising options. You have the luxury of choice! There’s just one thing that can get in the way. Few things have made life f...
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Getting started as a travel nurse means getting in front of the agencies that place them — without handing your phone number to every recruiter in the country. Here is how that works on NurseRecruiter, step by step, and what to expect once your profile is live. 1. Fill out your profile The first ste...
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It’s the largest health care strike in U.S. history! Now that 75 thousand healthcare workers at Kaiser Permanente are on strike at hospitals and clinics across California, Colorado, Oregon and Washington, it’s time to re-up our post about strikes and nurses! But this time, we’ll get straight to the...
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Now that Pennsylvania has opened its doors to registered nurses with a multistate license, it’s suddenly a lot more attractive as a travel nursing destination. But where should you go looking first? We’re going to tell you about the best city for travel nurses in Pennsylvania! There are two things t...
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Nurses sound off about the states which still refuse to join the NLC — but there's good news from Pennsylvania! “Imagine the challenge of driving across state lines if you were required to obtain a [driving] license from every state in which you were going to drive.” It wouldn’t make any sense, righ...
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The train keeps on rolling: month after month, year after year, more and more states are joining the Nurse Licensure Compact! Progress seems unstoppable. An impressive roster of NLC laws has been enacted and implemented in recent years. No fewer than 36 states have now fully implemented the Compact....
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A travel nurse takes short contracts wherever the work is — usually thirteen weeks at a time — and gets paid a premium for the disruption. Whether that trade is worth it comes down to the things nobody puts in the recruiting brochure: how the housing stipend actually works, what happens if a contrac...
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We’re always going on about how travel nursing is great because it gets you into all kinds of different work settings. Good for your professional development, enhances your skills, yadda yadda yadda, you know the drill! But what if it actually gets you a proper Hollywood-style job, working with the...
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Coming to your hospital soon? More strikes will follow What can you expect when you go on strike? What can you expect from working as a strike nurse? Unless you’ve been taking the strictest of mental health breaks from all news and social media, you’ll have heard about the huge nurses strike in New...
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Imagine the shock: you’re half way down your drive from Florida to Wyoming for a travel nursing job, and you hear your contract has been canceled. No warning, no caveats: you simply thought you had a job, and then you didn’t, and now you have nothing to return to. Read also: This Is Where Nurse Wage...
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