The Evolution and History of Travel Nursing
The history of travel nursing is as old as modern nursing itself. While these first travel nurses were not under contract, they were in fact nurses traveling to fill crisis …
9 Trends in Nursing
As with many professions, nursing trends are easily detectable. For a long time now, healthcare systems have revealed trends in nursing that are often times crucial to the way nurses …
Building Trust Between Nurses and Patients
The Nurse and Patient Relationship: Anxious Patients The nurse and patient relationship is a very important one when it comes to the overall experience, care, and health success of the …
Nursing Credentials – Taming The Monster – By Kay Slane
Nursing Credentials – Taming The Monster – By Kay Slane You are all excited about your new travel nursing assignment, and then you get an email from your recruiter that …
Compassion in Nursing
Compassion in Nursing: So, What’s the Big Deal? Nursing compassion: it’s the thing that makes us different. You will get asked so many times in your career, “so, why did …
How To Be A Better Nurse
We would first like to start this blog off by saying that nurses are often under-appreciated and their job often is thankless. We know how hard nurses work, and we …
Strategies to Address Incivility in Nursing
When you think of the nurse community, you don’t necessarily think of nurse incivility or horizontal violence. Many people have asked, what is incivility in nursing? Isn’t nursing the most caring …
Pros and Cons of Being a Nurse
The Pros and Cons of Being a Nurse Before entering a nursing career, it is important to weigh the advantages and the disadvantages of being a nurse. Nursing school is …
Travel Nursing Tax Guide: What You Actually Need to Know
Taxes trip up more travel nurses than almost any other part of the job. The pay structure is genuinely more complex than a standard W-2, the rules around tax-free stipends …
Night Shift Nursing: What to Really Expect?
Work Life Night shift and day shift are genuinely different jobs — not better or worse, but different in ways that matter for your pay, your clinical practice, your health, …