I may be a naive nurse, but if I were only in it for the money my patients would suffer... I work in a facility that uses A LOT of travel nurses and our turn over is incredulous despite being the top paying hospital in the state and the company seems wonderful. I don't quite understand why staffing and shortage just keeps getting worse and I haven't even been an RN for all that long. It only seems to be at the patients peril. What if every travel nurse took a regular position would the disparity in pay really be that bad?