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 [...]

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 [...]

If you live in Illinois, the answer could soon be “nobody.”
To date, over 1,000 small medical clinics have opened their doors in retail settings around the country. Places like Wal-Mart and CVS come to mind as leaders in this area. These types of places don’t need you to make an appointment and are usually staffed [...]

According to a report from Merritt, Hawkins & Associates, one of the nation’s largest recruiting firms, nurses trained in administering anesthesia are regularly offered higher salaries than family physicians. The firm’s review indicates that the average salary offered to recruit family physicians is $172,000, compared to the $185,000 average salary offered to recruit nurses trained [...]

Located on the western slope of the continental divide, and just a short drive from Denver, Winter Park, CO is full of year-round skiing, shopping, dining, lodging and golfing. Travel nurses can find their thrills whitewater rafting on one of Colorado’s raging rivers. Winter activities for travel nurses include cross-country and downhill skiing, snowshoeing and [...]

If you know what hospital you want to work for, you next step is getting the best deal you can from a travel nurse staffing agency. But how do you do this? Do you call every agency in the U.S. and ask them if they fill travel nurse positions at the hospital or facility you [...]

I read a story recently about a new travel nurse who landed an assignment in Alaska. Part of her contract included a rental car for her to get around town and, of course, to and from work.
But another part of the contract stated that she would ONLY be reimbursed for the rental car if she [...]

Kathleen Murphy, RN is the type who easily gets bored and constantly seeks new ways to challenge herself. That’s what drew her to being a travel nurse in the first place. As a travel nurse for the past three years, she’s had assignments in Missouri, Tennessee, California, and Arizona.
In some cases, she’s accepted extended [...]

Many nurses and travel nurses realize that an agency or healthcare facility will do a background check on you prior to your employment. It’s pretty much a no-brainer in today’s society. But what many nurses and travel nurses don’t realize is that agencies will often perform a credit check on you as well. Quite often, [...]

Pharmaceutical Companies
Pharmaceutical companies are making more and more money each year from consumers and other sources of revenue. The cost of this profit along with rising costs of research are being passed on to patients. An increasing number of these patients are becoming unable to afford to pay these rising costs. Stagnant economic growth, stagnant [...]

The Media Image of Nurses
All too commonly, today’s popular TV shows cast nurses as mere physician assistants and peons who have little or no technical knowledge of medicine. These misrepresentations and typecasts often result in nurses getting less authority and respect from two very important areas: patients and doctors, which obviously [...]

Let’s face it, email is here to stay. It’s in colleges and universities, America’s largest and smallest corporations. It allows us to communicate quickly and efficiently with the added benefit of being able to review our words before they travel to our intended recipient.
But is email coming to a doctor’s office near you? Probably not, [...]

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 [...]

Harm Reduction
This important issue addresses programs that intend to reduce the ill-effects that are typically associated with dangerous and potentially dangerous lifestyle choices. These programs are broad in scope and can range from designated driver/drunk driving awareness campaigns to condom/birth control distribution in public schools and public needle exchange programs for those addicted to drugs [...]