The heart of eJane is the relationship it creates between the travel nurse and the healthcare provider.  The best way to describe it is   ….    “direct.” 
eJane is not an agency.  We are a web=based application that allows the travel nurse and healthcare provider to negotiate directly.  Our specific responsibilities (and liabilities) can be found in [...]

Apartments.com is a good place to start when looking for your own housing as an independent contractor travel nurse. For instance, eJane.com has travel nurse openings in Virginia Beach, Virginia so I thought I’d find out what kind of housing is available in that area. I went to the Apartments.com website and clicked on the [...]

This was our first time as an exhibitor at the ASHHRA’s (American Society for Healthcare Human Resource Administration) 44th Annual Conference & Exposition in Austin, Texas.  Most attendees were corporate level Human Resource VPs and Directors.  We were pleasantly surprised that nearly all the healthcare providers we spoke with were almost as excited as we [...]

Nurse Education
One of the most obvious ways to combat dwindling nurse staffing levels (besides enacting legislation to protect patient ratios) is to make nursing more attractive, education potential nursing students about the career potential nursing holds and remove the barriers to receiving quality nursing education. Rep. Lois Capps, a nurse serving in Congress, has proposed [...]

Nurse Staffing Levels
As nurses and travel nurses are probably aware, this country is experiencing a shortage of registered nurses. This shortage results in overworked nurses and can easily patient safety into question. Nurses on all levels, in all departments need to push their employers for better pay and working conditions. Better pay and conditions for [...]

The eyes of some travel nurses get big and eager when they hear the words “completion bonus.” But before we all start raving about the fact that it’s extra money, let’s look into a few things.
Completion bonuses are considered by the IRS to be ‘non-earned income’. You know you earned that money, but the way [...]

I’ve heard stories of countless travel nurses who went on the road not for the adventure, not for the chance to expand their careers, but simply to pay off debt. While it’s true that being a travel nurse offers an opportunity to increase your income (sometimes very substantially), it isn’t necesarily a wise idea to [...]

Switching travel nurse agencies is a lot like buying or selling your home. It’s usually a
pain, there’s always tons of paperwork, and in the end, it’s usually worth it all financially and personally.
Here are a handful of reasons why travel nurses may choose to change staffing agencies, or even go it alone as in independant [...]

Being a travel nurse means more than just showing up for work. So it’s no wonder why some new travel nurses get frustrated when they don’t get the greatest assignments, have to wait on agencies for their assignments, and generally wonder why their travel nurse staffing agency isn’t doing more to help.
What successful travel [...]

While the nursing shortage will affect the 1.8 million nurses who work primarily in hospitals invariably, ALL healthcare settings where a nurse is employed will be affected. The shortage will require many short and long term strategies in order to avert the crisis. One thing that’s for certain is that this shortage will increase the [...]

According to a recent Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) report, hospital and healthcare spending are anticipated to grow between 2005 and 2016 at a compound annual rate of 7%. Part of this growth is being fueled by the aging of baby boomers. The U.S. Census Bureau projects 2.4% growth in the number of people [...]

There are hundreds of travel nurse staffing agencies in the United States of varying sizes and experience. These agencies place about 40,000 travel nurses in this multi-billion dollar industry. Most agencies, regardless of size, will be able to offer travel nurses assignments throughout much of the United States.
Larger travel nurse staffing agencies generally will have [...]

If you’re an experienced travel nurse, you know the game. You’ve worked with plenty of agencies and know how to get the most for your time and experience as a travel nurse. Chances are, you’re doing one or more of the following:
Be open to travel nurse jobs in plenty of locations.
You should be actively talking [...]