The Gypsy Nurse Job Board is Leading the Way for Travel Nurse Jobs!
Hey Gypsies! If you’ve not tried it yet, and you’re looking for your next (or your first!) travel nurse assignment, please check out the new Gypsy Nurse Job Board on TheGypsyNurse.com. The Gypsy Nurse Job Board now has over 180,000 top-paying travel nursing jobs from some of the most well-known names in travel nurse staffing including Travel Nurse Across America, Cross Country TravCorps, and Trustaff. See why thousands of travel nurses every month visit The Gypsy Nurse Job Board to find their dream jobs. Unlike some other nursing-related websites, we treat travel nurse job opportunities VERY differently: – The Gypsy…
Why Don’t Some Travel Nursing Agencies List Pay Rates?
This article was provided by Travel Nurse Across America® Travel nursing isn’t your average career for a long list of reasons – new locations, new workplaces, and new faces every few months, to name a few. But in some ways, looking for a new travel nursing assignment is the same as searching for any new job, and all job seekers want to know the facts before they apply. So what’s a savvy travel nurse supposed to think when the travel agencies they’re thinking about working with aren’t advertising how much their jobs pay? Let’s look at some of the reasons…
Why My Wife is a Travel Nurse
This article was provided by Travel Nurse Across America®. Becoming a travel nurse family My wife and I got together when she was still in nursing school. When she decided that she could tolerate me for the long haul, one of our first decisions was to work towards becoming a travel nurse family. We talked endlessly about the adventures we would have, always caveating our excitement with the knowledge it wasn’t always going to be a day at the beach, but we knew the positive would outweigh the negative. We read all the information on travel nursing we could get…
The Riddle of the Toy
My wife wears the scrubs in the family. She’s been a travel nurse for about a year. Our three-year-old son and I like to tag along. She’s the rock band, and we’re the roadies. I’ve taken to calling our son road dog, which his mother doesn’t find as amusing as I do. Not all nurses have a good sense of humor- it’s the job that does it to them. What toy stays, what goes, or to storage it goes? One of the challenges to this lifestyle is the choices that must be made when it comes to what stays, what…
#NursesTakeDC Patient Safety Conference and Rally for National Patient Ratios
Nurses all across the United States and Show Me Your Stethoscope will be teaming up to taking D.C. once again for 2017’s Patient Safety and Rally for National Patient Ratios. As nurse, patient safety is our number one priority but hospitals refuse to give us safe staffing ratios. We need the hospitals and legislation to know that these are not safe working conditions for us or our patients. This May 4th through May 5th, 2017, we want to raise public awareness regarding safe nurse: patient ratios and to support pending legislation. Watch this video and find out why this rally is so…
3 Fast Remedies for Travel Nurses On the Road
By Annette Tersigni RN, The Yoga Nurse™ Travel nursing is a glamorous, exciting adventure. You are a nursing rock star on the road. And yes, at times, you’ll feel stress and anxiety related to all the busyness of settling into your new gig. And you want to feel calm, confident, and competent when it’s show time. Here are three quick, easy and proven remedies that any nurse can do. Treat yourself on the road, on the job and in your daily life. Airway open? Take a deep cleaning breathing break. Circulation? Try this quick stretch when the job is a…
How did I get so much stuff? – Ideas to organize Your Travel Nurse Memories
Ideas to Organize your Travel Nurse Memories If you are like me than you collect mementos, pictures, and other things from your assignments. We’re here to help you find unique ways to organize your Travel Nurse Memories. After a few contracts you can see the littlest things start to pile up, and we all know we try to pack as lightly as possible in our mobile lifestyle! But, we just can’t seem to stop ourselves from picking up those little mementos that remind us of our assignment. We asked our Facebook group members, how they remembered each assignment, or location. It…
The Gypsy Nurse Network Reaches 40,000 Members!
Hey Gypsies! We are thrilled to announce that we’ve reached 40,000 members on our Gypsy Nurse Travel Nurse Network on Facebook! It’s incredibly rewarding to see the community coming together to support one another and continue our Collaboration, Community, and Camaraderie principles that it was founded on. We appreciate your continued support and participation! We look forward to adding even more members to the network group! THANK YOU GYPSIES! Also, as you’ve probably heard, we’ve got some incredible new online tools coming out on theGypsyNurse.com very soon that will be a huge help to Gypsies everywhere! Among the exciting new…
What to Expect on Your First Day in a Travel Nurse Assignment
1.) Do a Test Run before you start your first day -Always try to familiarize yourself with the route to the hospital, the hospital campus, and even the parking lot.-Time yourself and figure the best route to get to work, figure out where you’re going to park. Leave at the time your shift would be starting and account for traffic.-Tour the hospital and bring goodies (goodwill gestures) for the nurses. Be friendly but not intrusive, and if nurses aren’t busy, ask questions about traffic and anything you’d like to know before your first day.-Stop by HR. Even if it’s closed,…
Travel Nurse: The ‘Referral’ Bonus
“The referral is a key piece of efforts to source new candidates for open positions. Thus the referral bonus comes from the marketing budget, not the RN’s pay package. A nurse’s pay shouldn’t suffer because they want to help the company they work for.” Rich Smith, Vice President & Co-founder at Atlas MedStaff As a traveler, you probably already know that most staffing agencies offer some sort of referral bonus. These bonuses can range from $250 to over $1000 per referral. Although I don’t recommend this as an ‘alternate source of income’ and highly discourage a traveler from recommending a company…