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  1. What do you wish you would have known before you started traveling?

    NedRN replied to ShockerRN's topic in Travel

    Well, OK then. For resources about what travelers wish they had known, this forum is about as good as it gets. You will read about real problems travelers experience and advice on how to solve the...

  2. What do you wish you would have known before you started traveling?

    NedRN replied to ShockerRN's topic in Travel

    Come clean, is this a student

  3. Nurse Staffing Levels: Travel Nurse Supply and Demand

    NedRN replied to traveler77's topic in Travel

    Interesting that two articles are posted in this thread with exactly opposite views of a nursing shortage in the future. While I am more of the NATHO bent where more nurses are needed for optimal care...

  4. Any hospice travel assignments?

    NedRN replied to gorgenurse's topic in Travel

    There certainly are hospice travel assignments, enough for you to travel full time. As a smaller specialty of course, there won't be as many as say medsurg or ED. Start calling agencies to get a...

  5. How to get started in travel nursing?

    NedRN replied to gorgenurse's topic in Travel

    There is a ton of overlap of assignments between agencies. Think about it from the facility perspective: would you want to depend on a single agency to provide your needs? Nope, choice is good. The...

  6. Needing advice First Assignment WA

    NedRN replied to renzlao's topic in Travel

    Sure! Getting a successful first assignment on your work history is key to better choices later. This will give you time to get acclimated with the US legal system and documentation before going too...

  7. Nursing abroad

    NedRN replied to awellman33's topic in Travel

    Where did you work in NZ and for how long? I went to high school in Wellington and have been back a couple of times for three, then six months bicycling and tramping about. I applied for a license,...

  8. Is My Pay Really That Bad???

    NedRN replied to Nurse_Lightning's topic in Travel

    Nice post! A couple of things to point out about the Twin Cities, the nursing unions are really strong. That is the why pay is so good there. A small downside is that unions have to strike sometimes...

  9. Need some reassurance

    NedRN replied to raindrop's topic in Travel

    Not a red flag. People's income changes for completely legitimate reasons. As has yours. Now if you had made 10 million a year for the last ten years and are suddenly reporting 20,000 in income, the...

  10. Need some reassurance

    NedRN replied to raindrop's topic in Travel

    Minimum wage has nothing to do with the IRS. They wouldn't care if you were making $2 an hour. There is a reason why you have never heard about the IRS raiding migrant worker camps! The taxability of...

  11. Questions for the Experienced from a Beginner Traveler

    NedRN replied to emily_BSN's topic in Travel

    1. If the PRN requirements are not onerous (like 5 shifts a year), then having a local PRN job helps nail your tax home. But it not necessary. 2. You are not required to spend some portion of your...

  12. under contract but I never signed

    NedRN replied to 8-ball's topic in Travel

    So your days off is a non-issue. Contract starts Sunday? That gives you time to resolve the overtime

  13. under contract but I never signed

    NedRN replied to 8-ball's topic in Travel

    Are you saying your recruiter agreed to specific days off and a change in overtime rate? Do you have documentation? The manager at the hospital emailed you a copy of the assignment letter from the...

  14. Nurse Entrepreneurs

    NedRN replied to Kimmie69's topic in Nurse Entrepreneurs, Innovators

    Non medical home care shouldn't require an RN. Nor much in the way of regulation depending on your plans and the

  15. Footcare: equipment, etc.

    NedRN replied to hotflashion's topic in Nurse Entrepreneurs, Innovators

    I don't like the idea of letting hazardous waste evaporate. We certainly thought the ground, lakes, rivers, and oceans, and now the atmosphere were inexhaustible places to dump but that is not...

  16. should I get liability insurance?

    NedRN replied to mmccool719's topic in Agency Nurses

    That is an interesting article. Many of your points are self evident, such as insurance is not worth it unless you have to use it. It is obvious from the cost of malpractice insurance that it is no...

  17. Can Travels Nurses work PRN? What about disability accomodations?

    NedRN replied to SunnyPupRN's topic in Travel

    Search this site for traveling with kids or children. There have been lots of discussions you will find interesting. The travel company doesn't matter here in regards to your concern. All that matters...

  18. Great travel nurse tools

    NedRN replied to Wolf at the Door's topic in Travel

    The free basic membership on PanTravelers gets you the Calculator. What does Facebook have to do with comparing offers? Someone else does the math for

  19. Traveling in California

    NedRN replied to LIG4me's topic in Travel

    You need 15 posts before you can use private messages. Maxona can post the name of her agency

  20. Great travel nurse tools

    NedRN replied to Wolf at the Door's topic in Travel

    Perhaps a better way to do that is to use the travel specific PanTravelers Calculator. Besides estimating taxes, it also provides you numbers you can use to compare different offers on a level playing...

  21. Does being a Travel Nurse REALLY put more money in your pocket???

    NedRN replied to Upward_Bound's topic in Travel

    There are lots of agencies that offer 401 plans, some without vesting requirements (better for travel nurses who operate as free agents). This is one area where Highway Hypodermics "best" agency list...

  22. States with a continual need?

    NedRN replied to BigT's topic in Travel

    Nope. Chasing long hours, hard work, and big

  23. Nurse Staffing Levels: Travel Nurse Supply and Demand

    NedRN replied to traveler77's topic in Travel

    This is not the right place to get opinions from hospital administrators. In any case, if you really want to survey market conditions, you are better off talking to agency administrators. A bit of...

  24. Great travel nurse tools

    NedRN replied to Wolf at the Door's topic in Travel

    Why the interest in calculating withholding taxes? Do you not trust your paycheck to be correct? Even if not correct, it all comes out in the wash on your tax

  25. Does being a Travel Nurse REALLY put more money in your pocket???

    NedRN replied to Upward_Bound's topic in Travel

    You can also rent or houseshare. You have to understand the basis for business expenses here, you must be duplicating expenses that you would not have incurred if you had stayed at home, you are...