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 [...]
You got to take the bad with the good, even in travel nursing! Now I’m not saying that orientation is not good, but if you move every 13 weeks (and those 13 weeks get shorter and shorter with each move!), well, orientation can tend to be repetitive (yawn!). However, if you approach it with the [...]
If you’ve read through some of our previous blogs, you’re familiar with eJane. Specifically that eJane.com is a website where independent contractor travel nurses can find open engagements posted by healthcare providers and negotiate directly. In my previous blog I recommend that nurses have at least one year experience in one location before taking their [...]
Being as prepared as a travel nurse can be when one arrives at a new location, makes life much less stressful. Chambers of Commerce are usually very useful in this area. You can request info through their website (if they have one) or call/write them and most Chambers have more information than you thought was [...]
Welcome to eJane, the way to go for travel nurses.
eJane is a new place where travel nurses will find open engagements directly from healthcare providers and heathcare providers can post open positions and negotiate directly with travel nurses.
If you’re a travel nurse, join today, complete your quality profile and be ready to go. You will [...]
In an effort to address the shortage of nurses in the United States and to increase the quality of care veterans receive, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has introduced the “Travel Nurse Corps”. This new program allows nurses in the VA to travel on assignment throughout the VA’s medical system.
“VA is committed to putting [...]
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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Travel nurses are an interesting bunch, aren’t they? Curious about different locations, seeking adventure of different sorts all the time, enjoying varied work experiences and always meeting new people are just a few common traits of today’s travel nurse. If these traits make you stand up and say “hey, that’s me!”, you just might make [...]
Hotels across the United State are taking part in the Great American Summer promotion by offering deep discounts and other perks to those traveling for business and pleasure during the summer months. Some are even offering gas cards to help those driving to lower the impact of riding fuel prices.
Get complete details of participating hotels [...]
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 [...]
Speaking of the beach, eJane thought you might like to get to know a few beach destinations. Today, we’ll take a look at Charleston, SC. One of the first things you’ll notice about Charleston is that it’s historic - in fact, the settlement of Charleston, SC was established in 1670 and subsequently moved to it’s [...]