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Travel Therapy: Know the Pros and Cons

June 17, 2013 Uncategorized

Fresh out of therapy school and you’re now ready to take on the world and start your career in travel therapy. Or are you? Stepping out of the protective walls of school and into the “real world” can be both exciting and terrifying. All the sudden every negative thing you’ve ...

Building Up Self-Confidence for a More Fulfilling Career in Travel Therapy

May 31, 2013 Uncategorized

Gordon Ramsay once said that self-confidence is not the same as arrogance. To paraphrase, confidence is quiet and assertive while arrogance is insecure and, therefore, loud. People tend to mistake one concept for the other to disastrous consequences. Nothing is more attractive than self-confidence and people who have it tend ...

5 Tips to Build Your Career as Travel Nurses

May 31, 2013 Uncategorized

There are many factors that affect one’s career in travel nursing. Here are just a few tips on how to build a career and help you climb that professional ladder with minimal fuss. Treat your job like a business. Take it seriously and treat both your co-workers and patients as if ...

Setting Up Goals in Order to Achieve a Successful Career in Travel Therapy

May 17, 2013 Uncategorized

Just because healthcare, as an industry, continues to grow does not mean we, as travel therapists, should feel secure in our careers. The make or break of any career, even in a flourishing field like healthcare, lies heavily on individuals who strive for excellence. In fact, because healthcare is at ...

5 Qualities of a Great Travel Therapist

May 6, 2013 Uncategorized

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 ...

Travel Nursing and Choosing Your Specialty

April 26, 2013 Uncategorized

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

April 26, 2013 Uncategorized

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 ...

How Do You Know You Have The Right Travel Therapy Staffing Firm?

April 12, 2013 Uncategorized

For the uninitiated searching for the right travel therapy staffing firm could prove to be a daunting task. Do a quick search online and you’ll find hundreds of staffing agencies that specialize in travel therapy opportunities. How do you even begin to choose? Should you go to a large- or ...

Travel Therapists: Building Rapport with New Patients

April 5, 2013 Uncategorized

Meeting new patients is always a challenge. Physical and occupational therapists have the uneasy task of breaking the ice. More often than not, building rapport is overlooked by healthcare providers as an essential part of the patient experience. Other patients are waiting and there’s only so much time one can ...

Common Interview Mistakes that can Cost You The Job

April 3, 2013 Uncategorized

Whether you’re having a phone interview or a face-to-face, it’s difficult not to fall into typical interview traps that can cost you that travel nursing job. We’re all humans after all. However, if you don’t even know what these traps are, then you’re more likely to commit them. Here are some ...

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