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When Travel Nursing Brings You Closer to Family

It wasn’t easy for Doris Harding to find out that her son, Sean, was going to be deployed to Afghanistan in June. When she found out she knew she wanted to spend time with him before he got sent abroad. But how could she? Sean was stationed in Hawaii and ...
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5 Qualities of a Great Travel Therapist

When you approach a staffing firm for your ideal travel therapy assignment, it’s helpful to understand the dynamics going on between you and the recruiter. This conversation is about sizing up the other side to determine whether you’re a good fit for the firm’s needs and vice versa. Recruiters generally ...
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How Effective Travel Nurses Cope with Stress

Being a nurse is a calling. No one said it would be easy. In fact, chances are, your professors and experienced nurses that you met while you were still in school probably warned you about the difficulties and stress that nurses have to endure in their job. But despite the ...
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Travel Nursing and Choosing Your Specialty

Many new nursing graduates have the preconceived notion that they must choose a specialty in order for their career in travel nursing to progress. There’s nothing wrong with this line of thinking. Certainly some specialties pay more than others as you’ll discover if you research traveling nurse salary online. If you ...

Dealing with Patients and Co-Workers

Not only do travel therapists have to deal with the challenges of moving from assignment to assignment, city to city, they also have to deal with a revolving door of new patients and co-workers. While physical or occupational therapists working as permanent employees in a facility have the luxury of ...

What Makes a Good Travel Therapist

The work that a travel therapist does is unlike that of the average 9-5 employee. Sure, the hours might more or less be the same but regular employees don’t have to deal with the added stress of moving from one assignment to another in just a couple of months. An ...
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How Travel Nurses Pack

Traveling to go on vacation and traveling to start a nursing assignment are two different animals. Typically, one goes away on vacation for only a short period a time, lasting a week or two. If you’re just out of college you might decide to trek around Europe for a couple ...
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Travel Nurses Overcoming Loneliness While on the Road

Humans are social beings. They thrive in the presence and support of loved ones. It’s then no big revelation that one of the major challenges in travel nursing is the sense of loneliness travelers feel when they’re on the road. Not having friends and family around—exacerbated by being a stranger ...
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