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| Many professionals face harsh physical and emotional | | | | positions. |
| demands in their jobs, but none more than the | | | | If this sounds good to you, read on for more details |
| Registered Nurse. Constantly on their feet and making, | | | | and suggestions about getting started in this exciting |
| literally, life and death decisions on a daily basis can | | | | field. |
| take its toll. | | | | Travel nursing jobs generally have a duration from 13 |
| The Registered Nurse, unlike other professionals, has | | | | to 52 weeks. Under the right circumstances you may |
| available a unique opportunity to reduce stress and | | | | reasonably expect to be provided housing or at the |
| burnout--travel nursing. | | | | very least, assistance with housing expenses. |
| You see, some 20 States participate in the Nurse | | | | Many hospitals will attempt to recruit travel nurses that |
| Licensure Compact Agreement and that list is growing | | | | perform well in their job. Knowing your services are |
| year by year. Participating states have reciprocal | | | | wanted gives you, the travel nurse, greater control in |
| agreements with each other allowing nurses licensed | | | | converting this temporary position into a permanent |
| and residing in one member state to practice in any | | | | position if you so choose. |
| other member state. | | | | Here are some tips about finding these opportunities. |
| The nation’s permanent nursing shortage has | | | | Many of the larger health care providers recruit their |
| reached one million. As a result, travel nurses are | | | | own travel nurses, but the simplest route to a travel |
| desperately needed to provide temporary relief in | | | | nursing position is to sign up with an agency that |
| hospitals that are short-staffed. There are no viable | | | | specializes in recruiting travel nurses. The fees can |
| solutions on the table for the nation’s nursing | | | | take a bite out of your earnings but this is outweighed |
| shortfall. Nothing contained in the Healthcare Reform bill | | | | by several positives: |
| seriously addresses the crisis. The problem of | | | | 1. You are offered several job options that meet your |
| dwindling faculty qualified to teach our would-be nursing | | | | selection criteria |
| professionals has not been addressed! In short, | | | | 2. You are assured decent housing or a fair housing |
| demand for travel nurses will only continue to grow | | | | subsidy |
| because our educational infrastructure cannot | | | | 3. Your recruiter does all the grunt work of searching |
| matriculate enough nurses to close the gap. | | | | out available positions |
| So why is travel nursing is one answer to RN’s | | | | 4. Your recruiter arranges licensing if your assignment |
| on the verge of burnout? The answer is: control! | | | | takes you from your home state |
| Travel nurses pick and choose where they want to | | | | 5. Your recruiter will assist you in resolving problems |
| work and when they want to work. | | | | and any other concerns encountered |
| Travel nursing affords you the opportunity to enhance | | | | First timers should consider using the services of a |
| your financial situation by earning as much as 20% | | | | nursing recruiter. Although it is exciting traveling to new |
| more than a permanent staff nurse. Your emotional | | | | places to live and to work, it can be intimidating! |
| well-being is enhanced by having the freedom of | | | | |