Best Travel Companies

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I know this question has been hounded to death, but every time I search the forum I don't seem to find straight answers. What are the best travel companies to sign contracts with? Pros and cons? Pay? Benefits? I am a PICU nurse with close to 7 years of experience. Any info is greatly appreciated!

How can you find out which ones are smaller or bigger? Thanks!

You can ask here. You can also Google them to find if they are traded on the stock exchange. If they are, you can look up their quarterly financials to find out how much revenue they have. If they break their revenue by type, like travel nurses versus allied health et cetera, take their revenue number and divide by 120,000 to see how many travelers they have.

So you can also ask any agency how big they are. Kind of a rude question and it is proprietary information so they probably won't answer. But here is a question you can ask that they will answer. Ask how many people work in their office, the total number, not just recruiters. Take that number and multiply by 10 for the number of travelers they have.

What kind of experience is typically necessary to do rapid response? I'm an er nurse and would like to know how to break I to rapid response. Thanks!

I would suggest working regular travel assignments first and see how you handle it. If you adapt well to a completely new hospital with a different patient population, different patient flow, different policies, procedures, docs, staff, patient load, support staff, different charting software, then you are ready for a harder assignment.

Best practices would suggest that a rapid response company requires at least two years travel experience first, but they don't. They are happy to throw warm bodies under the bus. Mind you, that can happen on a regular travel assignment first, but if you go for the larger agencies, they should be able to find you an assignment that is a good fit for your experience (again best practices, also requires a good recruiter).

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I was a LVN/LPN for 10 years and a RN for 2 years in a acute hospital setting. Children have graduated from high school and I would like to know what it would take for me to get into travel nursing?

Also do they provide benefits - retirement, medical ??

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Call an agency! That's the first step. Preferably call lots of agencies until you find several recruiters you like.

Benefits? Not so much. You are kind of on your own with most agencies. In any case, agencies work off a bill rate the charge to hospitals for every hour you work. If you are sick, they have no money to pay you with. Any and all benefits come out of your pay so you might as well get your own.

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I am looking for a company with Endoscopy assignments. Any suggestions?

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Most agencies will have endoscopy assignments. Which ones have you talked to?

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