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Checklist: What to Pack for a Travel Assignment

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 ...

6 Ways to Thrive During Your Travel Nursing Assignment

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 ...

3 Delightful Ways to Say Thank You During Nurses’ Week

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 ...
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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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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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Travel Nurses: Posting Patient Information on Facebook

In 2012, it has been reported that Facebook has over 901 million monthly users and 526 million daily users. It is undoubtedly the largest social network in the world. Chances are, almost everyone you know is on Facebook. There’s no sign that the social network’s popularity will go away anytime soon. ...

Travel Nurses: Keep Fit While Traveling

Traveling as a lifestyle is fun and exciting but it can take a toll on your health. Given your busy schedule and the constant moving, it’s easy to lose sight that you’re supposed to take care of yourself as well and as much as you do your patients. The truth is ...
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Travel Therapy: Traveling with Family

Many physical therapists, occupational therapists and other allied healthcare professionals who want to give travel therapy a try don’t because they feel that having a family is a hindrance. In actuality, this shouldn’t be the case. It’s possible to have a career as a travel therapist even if you’re married and ...
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How to Overcome Compassion Fatigue in Nursing

Nurses are, of course, prone to compassion fatigue. It’s not difficult to understand why. As nurses treat more patients, there is tendency to feel “exhausted” or “weary” from caring too much. Nurses can become overwhelmed with showing compassion to their patients. Majority of nurses experience compassion fatigue so don’t feel ...
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