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Just because you move from destination to destination as a travel professional, doesn’t mean you have to spend your hard-earned paycheck on fast-food. The following list of meals are portable (grab-and-go!) and all you need is a cooler in your car. You can still eat healthy while you are on ...

Technology doesn’t make or break a travel nurse, but it certainly does help! The following mobile app recommendations will help you in every facet of your life as a travel nurse – from your road trips between assignments, to keeping track of to-do lists, to finding a delicious meal in ...

Whether this is your first travel assignment or your tenth, packing can be one of the most difficult items on your to-do list before shipping out to your next destination. Here’s a checklist of things to bring with you for a successful three-month stay – wherever you’re going! Travel assignment packing ...

If you go into a travel nursing assignment hoping to “survive”, then you’re looking at it the wrong way; travel nursing is an opportunity to thrive – in your career and for your own personal enrichment. Here are six ways you can thrive during your travel nursing assignment: 1.     Don’t wait ...

Nurses’ week is just around the corner and celebrations for one of the vital professions in the medical field are abound. How do you plan on joining the festivities and showing your appreciation to the nurses that have touched your lives? Here are some tips from Cirrus Medical Staffing on how ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...