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Navigating the Travel Nursing Industry in 2025: What You Need to Know

The Gypsy Nurse

If theres one thing travel nurses know how to do, its adapt. The travel nursing industry has seen some serious shifts over the past few yearsbooming demand during the pandemic, a market correction in its aftermath, and now, a new normal thats still taking shape. The travel nursing industry went from a $6.5

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Travel Nursing with Families

The Gypsy Nurse

There have always been non-traditional travel nurses, but in the last few years, more and more families seem to be trying to figure out life on the road. The work-from-home and homeschool options have drastically increased since 2019, so a lot of the things that held families back in the past are no longer an issue.

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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 Nursing Demand Is Waning: Now Hospitals Want Full-Time Nurses Back

Nurse.com

As travel nursing demand subsides, hospitals are hoping they’ll return to the full-time workforce. Travel nurses made as much as $10,000 a week during the worst of the pandemic. Travel nurses are having contracts abruptly cancelled while in transit to their new site. Unsustainable travel nursing demand.

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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

Ameen worked in a long-term acute care hospital, a Veterans Affairs hospital, a skilled nursing facility and a mental health/alcohol detox facility. As he neared the end of his associate degree program in 2019, Ameen researched his next step: a bachelor’s degree in nursing. That research led him to American Sentinel.

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Travel Nursing: A Brief History

The Gypsy Nurse

The origins of travel nursing can be traced back to Florence Nightingale since she recruited nurses to travel to Crimea with her. 1 However, travel nursing as it’s known now came about for different reasons in the 20 th century. It was originally a response to seasonal changes in the demand for nurses.