Travel Nursing (Part 1): The Contract Cost Conundrum

Especially now, traveling medical professionals provide a critical part of the healthcare we receive today. Why is it that there are so many traveling nurses though? It seems like there would be a middle-ground to find a local professional and mitigate the costs associated with bringing one in from out-of-state. Travel nursing contracts have associated […]

Travel Nursing (Part 2): The Concept of Efficiency

In a prior post, we discussed the phenomena of nurses swapping cities simultaneously to work for 13 weeks, then returning to their respective cities. It doesn’t occur to the requesting healthcare facilities, the source of all job orders, that at the same time they are pulling travel nurses from other parts of the country, hospitals […]