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What Travel Nurses Can Expect During This Year’s Post-COVID Flu Season

The Gypsy Nurse

If you graduated with your nursing license during or after 2019, then nursing during the pandemic is the only healthcare world you’re familiar with, when sky-high travel nursing rates, paired with nonstop admissions, became the rule instead of the exception. So the question is – What happens now?

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Travel Nurses Need To Be Prepared for Anything

Nurse.com

“I watched a lot of ‘Grey’s Anatomy,’ and I thought, ‘How awesome would it be to travel and see the world and go to Seattle, maybe meet a McDreamy,’” she joked, citing the popular Seattle-based show’s fictional surgeon. But being a travel nurse is not a walk in the park. Challenges for Travelers. Updating Onboarding.

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A Beautiful Journey: California Travel Nurse Fast Tracks Toward Dreams with BSN Degree Via SIMPath®

Post University

From Licensed Vocational Nurse to Registered Nurse After graduating high school in Sacramento in 2013, Ameen became a Licensed Vocational Nurse. “I I chose nursing because I feel that nurses are key contributors to the healthcare field and help people live better lives,” he says.

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Paramedics help alleviate ED staffing issues

American Nurse

As nursing shortages around the United States continue to grow, including in emergency departments (EDs), hospital systems seek innovative solutions. Some systems have resorted to paying high salaries for travel nurses or increasing patient–nurse ratios to maximize staffing matrixes. 2019; 4(3):1-7. Br Paramed J.

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Pay Rates: A Changing Trend

The Gypsy Nurse

States with the highest registered nurse employment numbers California, Texas, New York, Florida, and Pennsylvania are the five states with the highest registered nurse (RN) employment numbers as of May 2021 (Bureau of Labor Statistics section 4). This led to an increase in rates across the nursing profession.

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What’s Happening With Travel Nursing Pay Packages?

The Gypsy Nurse

Travel nursing changed fast when the Covid-19 Pandemic hit, and the ripple effect caused by the pandemic kept making waves well into two and three years later. But is the normal of the pre-pandemic travel nursing industry truly what we can expect to see in the coming months? StaffDNA provided this article.