jhayroe

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1. Clinical Field Specialist or Medical Product Sales

   jhayroe replied to jhayroe's topic in Entrepreneurs

   Difficult to say because nursing salaries vary completely by where you are based in the country. I know as a travel nurse, nurses in the Southeast make very low salaries (unfortunately) while nurses in California make some of the highest salaries. ...

2. NICU nursing application question

   jhayroe replied to NurseCait220's topic in NICU

   Good luck to you! It was also my dream to start in NICU nursing, which I was very lucky to get the opportunity to get a coveted NICU residency slot when I graduated. I think your answer was a good start: Experience with rapid change in patient stat...

3. Clinical Field Specialist or Medical Product Sales

   jhayroe replied to jhayroe's topic in Entrepreneurs

   One year later and here is my follow up: I finally did secure a job in the medical device industry. Here was my experience: I applied to about 50 different jobs utilizing job search engines: Indeed, LinkedIn, Glassdoor, exc. One job I was particular...

4. Clinical Field Specialist or Medical Product Sales

   jhayroe posted a topic in Entrepreneurs

   I would like to become a clinical field specialist for a medical device or product. I would also consider being a medical device salesperson. What is the best way to get started? I have over four years experience as a NICU nurse. I have not yet h...

5. Travel Nurse Buddy

   jhayroe replied to jskgx2's topic in Travel

   Hi I'm a 25 year old single RN in Hawaii. I work in NICU at Kapiolani. I love it here and will probably be out here for the next 8 months. But I would love to have some friends to go to the beach with! Let me know if you get a job out here!

6. Anyone Work for Tenet Health or Parallon Workforce?

   jhayroe replied to jnh911's topic in Travel

   I was happy with Parallon. Just keep in mind Parallon can only staff HCA hospitals. So if you want to work in Texas where they have a lot of HCA hospitals this will be great. This is the best way to go if you want to work at HCA because you will g...

7. Tax Benefits besides "Housing"

   jhayroe replied to mustang_convt's topic in Travel

   I recommend checking out the traveltax.com This guy was a travel RT/accountant and can do your taxes, answer questions and there are also helpful worksheets for figuring out deductions. I am not good at accounting so this was an easier solution for ...

8. Best travel nurse agencies

   jhayroe replied to agatka's topic in Travel

   There are hundreds of agencies out there. I would just would NOT recommend TaleMed. A company which no one is heard of, but was very highly rated by Highway hypodermics. That was why I applied with them. But I had to haggle with them to get my pa...

9. Austin, Dallas & Houston: Which City is Best for RNS?

   jhayroe replied to MsMorningGlory's topic in Travel

   I am from AZ and had 2 years experience before starting my career as a traveler in Texas. I agree with the post by nusretaminator and think it is accurate description of what you might find in Texas. I did 1.5 contracts in Dallas and then a contrac...

10. Austin, Dallas & Houston: Which City is Best for RNS?

    jhayroe replied to MsMorningGlory's topic in Travel

    I am from AZ and had 2 years experience before starting my career as a traveler in Texas. I agree with this post and think it is accurate description of what you might find in Texas. I did 1.5 contracts in Dallas and then a contract in Austin. I e...

11. Parallon

    jhayroe replied to Lovelymo79's topic in Agency

    I am a traveler through Parallon contracted at St. David's North, but I work in the NICU, so my advice may not fully apply to you. I really like working for Parallon and I think my pay is good as is my recruiter. However, I do not like working at t...

12. Feedback on travel agencies?

    jhayroe replied to TravelNewbie's topic in Agency

    TaleMed is terrible. I did my first ever travel assignment through them and would not go with them ever again. My housing was an extended stay hotel that was disgusting, and no one did much to find me better housing, my recruiter did not give me ve...

13. What is the difference between travel nursing and local per-diem contracts?

    jhayroe replied to 50kn's topic in Agency

    I am a travel nurse. I don't have experience as an agency/per-diem local nurse. My understanding is that you are considered a "travel nurse" if your tax residence is more than 50 miles away from the hospital. Because you will live far away, usuall...

14. Agency Nursing in Downtown Chicago

    jhayroe posted a topic in Agency

    I'm a travel nurse looking to go to Chicago for the summer. Most recruiters have told me that it is very rare for there to be open travel nursing jobs in downtown Chicago. Does anyone have any advice for getting a Chicago travel job? I am also consi...

15. how is travel nursing pay set up?

    jhayroe replied to tvm4315's topic in Travel

    I'm a traveler, and yes, the pay breakdown is confusing, especially at first. I have another question. I had one company that wanted to pay me $30/hour, but divided it up between $15/hour pay, then $15/stipend, then paid housing was separate (I had...