Travel Nurse are Registered Nurses that have the fashion to work and enjoy new places, experience new work environment, explore new systems, and most of all enhance their professional career advancement in the nursing industry. Travel nurses are very important in the healthcare industry, they fill in the gap of the shortage of nurses to perform duty. Due to the shortage that the healthcare facilities is experiencing they have vacancies that need to filled in instantly. these travel nurses are often called in and fill that vacant positions. The healthcare facility could save a lot of time in preparing the hiring procedure and human resources process.
Characteristics of Travel Nurses:
- They love to learn new things, every work assignment takes the travel nurse to a new city and new healthcare facility, Each facility has different method of practice and procedures, they adopt different type of technology different monitoring and reporting software.
- They realize goals despite challenges, they are always ready and prepared to move to different city or state and a new work place being a new nurse , new system, new technology.
- They enjoy the flexibility of their schedule, they create their own schedule, great benefits and their income is based on their availability of work and the agency that they choose to work.
- They choose where they want to work and when they want to work, and they will select the period of their employment and the time of their vacation, they will enjoy all that freedom.
- They will establish and meet new friends.
- They have supportive families.
One of the significant concern of the travel nurse is the housing. but with todays technology and apartment availabilities anywhere could solve this concerns. The company offers housing stipend and applied towards housing and paid together every paycheck. Stipend is tax free if their work is away from their tax home. Most of the travel nurses avail this great benefit. one of the great benefit of the travel nurses is they get higher than average pay for registered nurse. They get dental and vision coverage and some agencies provide medical coverage insurance assistance . Travel nurses also have retirement plans and 401K contributions if they complete certain hours in their travel assignment.