When Pandemic hits all healthcare organizations face shortages in staffing. as a result, a massive surge in demand for travel nurses. Staff nurses were exhausted and even demoralized and stressed out which causes for these nurses to just retire early and others just quitting at a very fast rate than hospitals can hire new replacement nurses. many nurses just leave their regular jobs in exchange for high paying travel nurses that could net up to $4000 per week or even more in some states or regions.  The travel nurses were getting housing allowances plus their salary of course which the regular staff nurses don’t. Getting 2 pay checks per pay period is not bad at all.

During the 70’s nursing shortages emerged in response to the high census in the healthcare system were observed. During this time the patient census were higher than the staff can care for, most hospitals were understaffed. based on the study the southern states suffer shortage of staff nurses constantly which drew more nurses from the northern states. So, nurses followed the seasonal inundation of travel nurses’ opportunities.

Today, professional travel nurses often work for healthcare staffing agencies that specialize in placing temporary nurses to hospitals which advocates secure housing, competitive salaries.

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