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9 Best States to Travel Nurse in 2023

MAS Medical Staffing

The past few years have spotlighted the many challenges nurses face—understaffing and burnout being two primary issues. Today, healthcare workers are leaving behind longtime traditional roles for the freedom and lifestyle that travel nursing provides. Why Should I Become A Travel Nurse?

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Nursing professional development at night

American Nurse

Cost of nurse turnover Heavy workloads and job stress heightened during the COVID-19 pandemic, which led to job burnout and contributed to the nursing shortage. In an attempt to address the shortage, hospitals paid hefty turnover costs associated with travel nurses and additional orientation classes. October 2022.

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Nursing Work Environments: A Brief Guide

Nurse.com

Recently, nurses have navigated their careers through a global pandemic, a travel nursing boom, supply issues, and continue to face an ongoing nursing shortage. Nearly 30% of nurses considered leaving the profession in 2021, compared to 11% in 2020, according to Nurse.com’s 2022 Nurse Salary Research Report.

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Don’t Call Us Heroes: Nursing Is a Calling — and a Profession

Relias

Nurses from the Fierce Healthcare survey stated that they needed increased pay and work incentives to stay in the field (86%). Travel nursing and flex nurses have been a saving grace by offsetting the current staffing shortage. The Nurse Salary Report indicated that 90% of hospital leaders hired travel nurses in 2020.

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Addressing Nursing Shortages: A Major Issue in New Mexico Healthcare

American Nurse

The US Census Bureau predicts that the number of Americans 65 and older will nearly double from 52 million in 2018 to 95 million in 2060, aggravating healthcare demand (Fermini & Bell, 2022). Nursing Workforce Demographics Nurses are aging and retiring. link] 
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What Is Block Scheduling in Nursing?

MAS Medical Staffing

4 Travel Opportunities Have an island beach vacation on the horizon—but want to take a per diem nurse job in the meanwhile? With block scheduling worked into your travel nurse contract, you can keep your travel plans at no sunken cost. A typical nursing schedule may have you working 5 days per week, every week.

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Calls for Change Resonate at The Nurses’ March in Washington

Nurse.com

Nurses discussed work environments where they have felt pressure to put aside their personal needs for food, bathroom breaks, and rest because they don’t want to let down their colleagues and their patients when staffing isn’t high enough to meet patient demand. There is not a nursing shortage.