Seven surprising travel nursing hotspots in compact states 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...
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When nurses strike — again! What can you expect when you go on strike? Or take a strike nursing job? 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 Washin...
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What’s the best travel nursing destination in Pennsylvania, and why is it Pittsburgh? 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...
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More states have joined the NLC — now it’s time for the big holdouts to get on board! 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 implem...
Read more →Working for the devil 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...
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When nurses strike! What can you expect when going on strike… or working as a strike nurse? 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 b...
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Travel nurses were shocked by stories of a sudden drop in demand. Should you be worried? 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 th...
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Eddie Johnson wins our photo contest again, and he has a message for all of us! One of the things we consider most valuable about this blog is that it allows us to share the important and inspiring stories nurses have to tell. Stories that are not heard often enough! Whether it’s accounts of heartbr...
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Would you take one of these COVID vaccination jobs? Over 1 in 3 Americans has received at least one shot, but now things get harder It’s a powerful symbol. Every day now, for weeks already, if you scroll down the New York Times homepage, you see the same thing. It’s a very plain graphic, with just t...
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Everybody is competing for travel nurses right now — salaries are high, but we need to talk about mental health Coronavirus is not over. The crisis response jobs are still there, and they pay well! We can help you find those nursing jobs. But we have to be honest about the costs too. We need urgent...
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Progress! The Enhanced Nurse Licensure Compact is fully implemented in Indiana. Next up, Michigan, Pennsylvania or Vermont? The Enhanced Nurse Licensure Compact (eNLC) is the easiest way to help American nurses find the jobs they need — and where they are needed most. But getting it implemented in n...
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From sea to shining sea, will nurses get the eNLC? This month, good news from Indiana and Alabama! The Nurse Licensure Compact has been making life for nurses easier since it was first launched in 1999, saving nurses who want to take up a job in another state the hassle of going through the process...
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