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  1. Travel Nurse Rates

    Travel first for the lifestyle. New friends, sights, and culture. Constant learning new ways to practice and sharing when appropriate. Lack of politics. Apparently you are worried about some threshold of compensation to make a contract "worth it". Wh...
  2. Travel Nurse Credentialing Process - How long does it take?

    Small agencies and strike companies take the shortest amount of time (could be just hours). There are a number of ways to speed the process besides agency choice. Written references (I recommend at least three) are far far better than providing names...
  3. Transition from staff RN to travel RN

    Well, you didn't express any concern as to your clinical skills and adaptability to a new practice environment yet that is the most common failure point of new travelers. Travelers are expected to hit the floor running with minimal orientation to wor...
  4. using false address for Travel gigs

    If you get audited for any reason, your address of convenience will not hold up. Housing stipends and per diems are supplied by agencies (no questions asked) if you lie on their housing report about having a legitimate tax home. In a tax audit, you w...
  5. I want to travel internationally

    Helen Ziegler is the usual go to for Middle East jobs but there are other agencies (Google) or you can go direct to hospitals. Volunteer charitable work is plentiful in Latin America. Continental Europe would be really hard (although there are ways s...
  6. New Travel Agency

    Just to mention, my esteemed guru stipend is late this month. Crappy skills checklists are all over the internet and easy to find on dozens of agency websites. I could go on for a bit to expound how they became crappy and how difficult (and dang...
  7. Cath lab vs IR travel

    In the past, demand for cath lab has been so high that they will take ICU travelers. So you might be able to shortcut the staff job. Not trying to talk you out of that, it is the best way to go. Still, not sure about current demand, but again histori...
  8. For a couple years after the pandemic hit, I was regularly received email solicitations for an astounding $8,000 plus a week for CVOR. They dropped recently but are still around $5,000 a week. Interesting to consider the huge drop in elective surgery...
  9. The Age Old Question: When Should I Start Traveling

    I think any change of units even in the same hospital can result in culture shock. I see a lot of cultural differences between CVICUs in different hospitals, ranging from intense focus (nurses still on a steep learning curve) to quiet competence. ...
  10. The Age Old Question: When Should I Start Traveling

    I'd like to point out that there are super nurses, average nurses, and those that will only ever be good enough to retain their staff jobs. A combination of you apparently belonging in the first (rather small group if you look around any unit), trave...
  11. The Age Old Question: When Should I Start Traveling

    More credentials are always good. Ultimately you are competing with other travelers for the best assignments. Best is a balance of location, compensation, and sometimes prestige. Your ability to compete against nurses with more experience, and nurses...
  12. Question about local agency nursing

    If you work in the same general area more than one year, your tax home automatically switches to that area. Also, if you take an open ended job like a local agency, same thing. That is not a contract with a finish date. On the same theme, if you sign...
  13. Easier to switch agencies. You can give this agency a try by talking to his manager and switching recruiters by saying not a good fit. That might well work but you would have some negative currents still depending on the agency size.
  14. NYU Cobble Hill

    If you have never worked in NYC, probably not friendly for a new traveler. Insane patient loads in the ED.
  15. The recruiter is just wrong and is going to lose you, right? You have no way to force her to submit your profile so move on. But don't skip the ICU jobs. The skills checklist you filled out will allow the NM to make a determination if you are a...