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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
These top ten political issues eJane has put forward may sound unsurmountable, but as a nurse, travel nurse or other healthcare provider, there are plenty of ways for you to get involved. You can write to Congress, become a member of groups such as the Center for Nursing Advocacy, and make your voice heard, and [...]
Veteran Care
Today’s veterans are too often realizing that the healthcare benefits the United States Government has promised them are coming up short. Many of these veterans are caught between a rock and an economic hard place, meaning they earn too much money to be qualified for services they need, but at the same time, they [...]
Advanced Practice Nurses (APRN)
Registered nurses who possess advanced education and skills quite often work in specialized practices, and can find themselves in positions such as certified nurse midwife or certified registered nurse anesthetist. Some advanced practice nurses (APRN), can even diagnose medical conditions and illnesses - even write prescriptions. APRNs are currently an important [...]
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 [...]