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 [...]
I wish more men would become registered nurses! It is unfortunate that male nurses are not better received than Ben Stiller as Greg Focker in “Meet the Parents.” It is unfortunate that some people think a man becomes a nurse because he is not smart enough for medical school! “Our society has conditioned people to [...]
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 [...]
Our memories are like muscles. If we don’t use them enough, they begin to atrophy. And, as if Travel nurses don’t have enough to remember as it is, they have the added burden of meeting more new colleagues than just about any other profession I can think of - like politics.
Travel nurses have to remember [...]
For travel nurses, and all nurses for that matter, there are a couple of dates coming up we wanted you to be aware of:
Nephrology Nurses Week: September 14 - 20. This is the week we celebrate specialists who are caring for those with kidney disease. This year’s theme is “We Carry the Torch.” Resources and [...]
The nursing profession is definitely one that places great emphasis on education. Many in the profession are constantly continuing their education gaining credit and even changing specialties every few years to gain experience in different areas.
Some RNs even make the jump into a master’s degree in nursing. The program is typically 18- 24 months in [...]
Wanting to get your BSN and not having any college education is one thing - totally possible with the right commitment and goal setting.
You’re in luck. There’s such a thing as a Second-Degree BSN program that’s offered by many school around the country.
Second-Degree BSN Programs.
These programs are designed specifically for non-nurses who already have a [...]
If you’re looking for a program that give you the best employment opportunities in today’s healthcare market AND is preferred by leaders in the nursing industry, theink very seriously about a Bacehlor of Science in Nursing (BSN).
Open up your newspaper and look at the nursing positions. You’ll see pretty quickly that a BSN is a [...]
Thinking of becoming an LPN/LVN? You’re not alone. Each year, thousands of Licensed Practical Nurses and Licensed Vocational Nurses enter the workforce. Each state sets its own requirements for how these two types of nurse are licensed. In some states, the term Licensed Vocational Nurse is used to describe the type of license given to [...]
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 [...]
…you really can’t BE a travel nurse, unless you’re a nurse first, right?
So let’s take a look at a few different types of nurses, how to become one and how to parlay a career as a nurse into an exciting lifestyle as a travel nurse.
Nurse Practitioner. Nurse practitioners tend to focus more on holistic, preventative [...]
If you’re like me, you might have grown up with a few rules…especially in the summer.
One rule we’ll never forget - “You must wait at least one hour after eating before going into a pool of any kind.” Oh the agony we all suffered during that hour before our parents would give us that nod, [...]
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 [...]
Today, those who want to join the healthcare industry as nurses have more choices than ever before, and the demand for professional, qualified nurses has never been greater. As healthcare becomes more and more complex with new discoveries and new technologies, nurses are finding rewarding careers outside the traditional hospital setting.
Travel Nurse Careers - This [...]
The American Nurses Association has been continuing to build its “Safe Staffing Saves Lives” campaign to lobby lawmakersfor safer staffing laws, and, in particular, the Registered Nurse Safe Staffing Act (S. 73/H.R. 4138). Under this proposed legislation, hospitals would have accountability for creating and maintaining nurse staffing plans at the unit-level. These plans would be [...]