What travel nurses need to know about taxes Doing taxes isn’t always fun but with a little planning and preparation, you may be pleasantly surprised by the results. As the April 15th tax filing deadline approaches, many of you will have started preparing your tax returns, or compiling records for yo...
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2018 Nurse Licensure Compact Changes: What You Need To Know Big changes are coming to multistate nurse licenses. Here is what you need to know. If you are a travel nurse or have ever relocated to another state for a nursing job, you are probably familiar with the Nurse Licensure Compact (NLC) system...
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Ten Questions You Should Ask Your Travel Nurse Recruiter Congratulations, NurseRecruiter has helped you connect with recruiters from top travel nursing agencies, and you have been offered several awesome travel nurse assignments. You’re ready to take your first steps as a newly-minted travel nurse!...
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What are the top paying locations for nurses? When looking for the top paying locations for nurses, you need to take into consideration not only salaries, but also benefits. Furthermore, you must consider the cost of living. Because a dollar in Memphis will not buy the same goods and services as a d...
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Amanda: “I have been working as a travel nurse for a year and a half now. This photo was taken on my last night of my travel assignment in Kauai, Hawaii. My coworkers made food and leis for my last night of work at Wilcox Memorial Hospital in Lihue, Hawaii.” (Nurse Photo Contest entry) If you have b...
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Over five years after the global financial crisis, jobs are still scarcer than they used to be in the United States – but not everywhere! In true American spirit, for example, thousands of people looking for jobs – or better-paying jobs – have been trekking north and west to “men camps” in rugged st...
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Scrubbing In docu-series about travel nurses starts tonight Scrubbing In, a new MTV show documenting the assignments of nine Aya Healthcare travel nurses in two Orange County hospitals, will premiere tonight (October 24, 2013) at 10pm ET/PT. In a recent press release, Aya Healthcare noted that it’s...
Read more →Nursing Shortages in Alaska Alaska has added more than 11,000 health care jobs in the last decade. But they’re still seeing a shortage of nurses, especially in specialized areas like operating room nursing, according to a story by KTVA. There are an abundance of Alaskans who are qualified to take en...
Read more →Tips for Travel Nurses on Going Green Travel nursing can be exciting, challenging, and rewarding, but it can also be a little rough on the environment. The San Francisco Chronicle's website has a list of tips for reducing your carbon footprint. These suggestions are geared towards travel nurses, tra...
Read more →Helping Foreign Nurses Receive Certification Quickly An organization is helping foreign nurses get certification quickly so they can begin to practice in Canada. The organization, called the CARE Centre for Internationally Educated Nurses, has been around for about a decade. Even nurses who have had...
Read more →Keeping Nurse Labor Costs Down This article in Health Leaders Media has an interesting perspective from hospitals regarding controlling nurse labor costs. It lays out a three-pronged approach to reduce personnel costs for nurses; a new approach to nurse overtime, use of supplemental labor such as fr...
Read more →Nurses Tend to Stick Close to Home A study has found that nurses tend to find work that is close to the nursing school that they graduated from. This means that areas without nursing schools — such as rural areas — tend to have a harder time finding nurses. And if there aren’t enough nurses to go ar...
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