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Multistate Nurse Licensing: What You Need to Know

Scrubs

continues to grapple with a nursing shortage, many nurses are starting to work across state lines, including travel nurses and those looking for new career opportunities. Navigating each state’s licensing requirements can be daunting to say the least, especially if you’re already working full time at a hospital.

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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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Where Did All the Travel Nursing Jobs Go?

The Gypsy Nurse

If you are a travel nurse who recently entered the job market, rest assured – the jobs are not gone! The travel nursing job market has been more volatile in the last three years than any other time. Prior to 2020, average travel nursing pay packages ranged from $1,500 to $2,000 per week.

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A Fortuitous Career: California Nurse Leader Earns DNP Executive Leadership

Post University

There, he was cared for by several excellent nurses. A Spark Ignited Growing up with a mother who was a Licensed Practical Nurse, Chad started thinking about becoming a nurse after his experience as a patient at Walter Reed. He started an MSN program at United States University in San Diego and graduated in 2020.

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How to Become a Travel Nurse in Seven Steps

University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences

The nursing field is currently experiencing a shortage that is expected to get worse: studies show 100,000 nurses have left the field since 2020, and more than half a million plan to leave by 2027. Learn how to become a travel nurse and explore how the University of St. What is a Travel Nurse?

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Understanding Nursing Shortages in the U.S. for 2023

Daily Nurse

Retirement : Another issue is the substantial number of nurses nearing retirement age. Per a 2020 National Nursing Workforce Study conducted by the National Council of State Boards of Nursing, the average age for a registered nurse (RN) was 52 years old, potentially signaling a large wave of retirements over the next 15 years.

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Stay Informed With Career Insights From the 2022 Nurse Salary Report

Nurse.com

In our 2022 Nurse Salary Research Report , average experience for RNs was 22.5 years, down from 26 years in 2020. Advanced practice registered nurses’ (APRNs) years of experience declined to 23.5 years from 28 years in 2020. The report revealed improvements such as increasing nurse salaries in most U.S.

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