Without a doubt, becoming a travel nurse has a strong learning curve and no guidebook! Everyone’s path is sure to be different, but in this article I’ll cover a few lessons I learned the hard way, and hopefully make your path a little easier. Be Confident in Yourself Since you will be in unfamiliar environments […]
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Lessons Learned As A Travel Nurse
Kearstyn Fox, RN | 6 February, 2020
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A Nurse’s Guide to Travel Nursing
Often times, nurses obtain their license and aim to start working as a registered nurse (RN) as soon as they can. Travel nursing is just another step in the process of becoming a well-rounded nurse, offering fun and valuable experiences along the way. Travel nurses typically don’t get to jump right in to nursing after […]
Janine Kelbach, BSN, RNC-OB | 4 February, 2020
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Take Steps to Avoid Nursing Burnout
Most nurses are familiar with long work days, having to deal with stressful patient situations, short-staffing, and rotating shifts. Many may even assume that it’s part of the job. Some may feel as if their work contributions are measured by how busy they are, or as if admitting to exhaustion or feeling overwhelmed is a […]
Maureen Bonatch MSN, RN | 30 January, 2020
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Top Places to Visit in North Florida
It’s no surprise that Florida is one of the most popular tourist destinations in the country, with its beautiful sandy beaches, theme parks, fresh orange juice and seafood, and the Kennedy Space Center, just to name a few. Add in Florida’s great outdoors (my personal favorite part of Florida) and you’re really in for a […]
Alex Evans, PharmD | 23 January, 2020
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How to Stay Current in Nursing
Whether it’s new technology impacting how nurses provide patient care, fluctuating methods of payment, or medications, changes in healthcare are inevitable. While many can become comfortable after working in a position for a few years and settle into how a routine for how tasks are always done, that’s not usually possible in nursing. Patient care […]
Maureen Bonatch MSN, RN | 21 January, 2020
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Volunteering as a Nurse Overseas
To date, I’ve worked/volunteered in over 20 hospitals in five different countries. Whether different states, cities, hospital networks, or countries, it goes without saying that every hospital is different. For the sake of this article, I’m going to be writing about my experience working in rural/secluded/poorly funded hospitals overseas (a lot of my volunteer experience […]
Kearstyn Fox, RN | 16 January, 2020
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Developing an Awareness of Workplace Violence
Workplace violence isn’t part of a nurses job, yet, the frequency of occurrence has been increasing to the point that in 2018 the Joint Commission identified the risks of workplace violence to health care workers as a Sentinel Event. The incidents of violence may be even more than realized since much of the time acts […]
Maureen Bonatch MSN, RN | 14 January, 2020
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Understanding Your 401(k) as a Travel Nurse
A 401(k) retirement plan lets you put away money tax-deferred. In most cases, you put in money and your employer matches. Pay Attention to “Vesting” As with a lot of other things, these plans require the traveling nurse to pay close attention to detail those with staff jobs don’t have to worry about. One is […]
Kurt Ullman, RN, BSPA, MHA | 9 January, 2020
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New Year Resolutions
Creating New Year resolutions is a tradition that began over 4,000 years ago. Around the time new crops were planted (mid-March), according to History.com ancient Babylonians celebrated their new kings and prayed to the pagan gods for good crops. During this time, they also pledged to repay their debts and return borrowed objects, believing if […]
Allison Stringer, MS, PT, FAAOMPT, CHA | 7 January, 2020
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Feeling Burnout?
Are you lacking motivation, irritable, or fatigued? Do you have difficulty sleeping, experiencing memory loss, or feeling nervous and anxious? You are not making it up, these are some of the symptoms associated with burnout. According to the Mayo Clinic “job burnout is a special type of work-related stress — a state of physical or […]
Allison Stringer, MS, PT, FAAOMPT, CHA | 2 January, 2020
