As we make our way through our careers as travel nurses, we realize a number of important things:
Life is short. Very short.
We come in contact with many people - those we wish to never leave and those we wish we’d never met.
We aren’t just what we eat (put in our mouths), we’re what we think [...]
Not every travel nurse in this country travels alone. And not every travel nurse travel with a spouse, family or significant other. Some travel nurses go from assignment to assignment with their four-legged companions.
With an estimated 163 million domestic cats and dogs in the U.S. a lot of emotion rise to the surface when travel [...]
Here’s a quick travel nurse survey: How long have you been a travel nurse?
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If there’s one thing you get to do as a travel nurse, it’s a great way to see a lot of this beautiful country that, quite frankly, most people don’t. But as a traveler, you have expenses that come with life on the road. And whether you’re traveling in your RV or your Honda CRV, [...]
Healthy Active Nurses
Travel nurses have a career that involves more than just long hours, stressful shifts and hectic schedules. Add int he travel between assignments and life on the road in general, and you’ve got a recipe for poor health and high stress. It’s easy for us to fall into the habits that cause [...]
As a travel nurse you know that long distances between assignments are part of the job. Adjusting to different regions, different climate and, of course, different hospital can all take a toll on your physical and mental health. It’s always in your best interest to keep yourself in the best shape you can on the [...]
Earlier this year, we made comments on the trend of travel nurses using RVs to see the country and as a place to call home while on the road. One of the details we didn’t touch on at that time was the effect that RVing has on the housing that you would normally be offered.
One [...]
If you’re like me, a cup (or two or three) of coffee in the morning is just what you need to get yourself moving in the morning hours. However, a recent Japanese study has concluded that it might be the aroma, and not the coffee itself, that gives you that ‘get up and go.’
Researchers in [...]
When we hear the media talk about the nursing shortage, the public often just sees the shortage - and not the nurses behind the shortage. The truth is, there are many different areas of nursing that are feeling the crunch.
For this series, we’re going to delve into some of the different types of nurses, what [...]
Summer’s here. Officially. If you’re in the south like those of us at eJane, you might try to tell us that summer started two months ago, but if you by the calendar there’s no way out of it.
And if you’re like thousands of other travel nurses, you’ve got your eyes on some nice beach locations [...]
I know plenty of travel nurses who love to visit the beach as a way to relax, refresh, soak up some sun and just ‘be.’
Dr. Beach (www.drbeach.org) has released the top 10 beaches in the U.S. for 2008 - If you’re not a travel nurse in one of these areas, you might want to plan [...]
Nothing can be as exciting as life on the road as a travel nurse - going from place-to-place, meeting new people and gaining valuable experience. But at the same time, new places can be stressful, even frightening at times. Especially when you’re living in housing that someone has picked for you. While travel nurse agencies [...]
Whether you travel cross country as a travel nurse by plane, by car or by RV, there’s one little thing you should always have handy: A quality pillow. Since the times of ancient Egypt, pillows has been filled with just about everything humans could get their hands on - cotton, plastic, down and even buckwheat.
And [...]
As a travel nurse, you probably lift a lot. Mostly patients and chances are, none of them are light.
It’s not unusual for travel nurses to lift and move 20 or more patients each day, weighing more than 100 pounds each. Such intense activity contributes to the high rates of injuries and far exceeds what is [...]
One of the benefits of being a travel nurse is the tax free housing, travel reimbursements and in some
cases, meal allowances - ok, so that’s more than one benefit, which is probably why you’re a travel nurse, right? In spite of the information (also called ‘advice’) that other travel nurses give you, these benefits are [...]