jhayroe

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1. Clinical Field Specialist or Medical Product Sales

   jhayroe replied to jhayroe's topic in Nurse Entrepreneurs, Innovators

   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...

2. NICU nursing application question

   jhayroe replied to NurseCait220's topic in NICU, Neonatal

   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...

3. Clinical Field Specialist or Medical Product Sales

   jhayroe replied to jhayroe's topic in Nurse Entrepreneurs, Innovators

   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,...

4. Clinical Field Specialist or Medical Product Sales

   jhayroe posted a topic in Nurse Entrepreneurs, Innovators

   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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

11. Parallon

    jhayroe replied to Lovelymo79's topic in Agency Nurses

    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...

12. Feedback on travel agencies?

    jhayroe replied to TravelNewbie's topic in Agency Nurses

    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...

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

    jhayroe replied to 50kn's topic in Agency Nurses

    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...

14. Agency Nursing in Downtown Chicago

    jhayroe posted a topic in Agency Nurses

    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...

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...