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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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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? It was mid-pandemic.

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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 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.

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The Top 8 Podcasts for Travel Nurses

The Gypsy Nurse

Below, we’ve listed some podcasts that range in topics from real-life travel nursing stories to travel tips and tricks to expansive guides shared by other full-time travelers. Behind The Scrubs: The Travel Nurse Experience This might be the most comprehensive look into what travel is right now.

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Gig nursing

American Nurse

Stress, burnout, and lack of work–life balance and flexible work hours contributed to the mass exodus of nurses from their jobs. On-demand, per diem staffing models and travel nursing boomed, and the growing gig economy spurred another flexible staffing approach: gig nursing. Like Uber for nurses. April 1, 2020.

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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.