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Your Road Map To Travel Nursing

If you were a female in the 1950’s and worked outside of the home, odds are you were either a teacher or a nurse. Women became more liberated in the 1970’s and began branching out into other jobs, leaving the nursing field void of needed workers.

The estimated need for new nurses will be over one million by the year 2010. According to a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association in the year 2000, the nursing shortage in the United States will continue to grow with an estimated twenty percent increase in the demand for nurses needed in our nation’s health care system by the year 2020.

As a result of the vast nursing shortage, seventy-five percent of all current hospitals have vacancies for registered nurses. This number is directly proportional to the need for the travel nurse.

As the patient numbers increase, so does the need for quality nurses to take care of those patients. The law of supply and demand affects nurses’ salaries and travel nurses rank at the top of the scale.

In the year of 1985 when I graduated from high school, I felt the calling to become either be a nurse or teacher. I chose to be a teacher. The problem with this decision didn’t hit me full force until I graduated from college in 1989 and discovered that there were not many jobs for a high school science teacher. After a three-year career as a substitute teacher, I made the decision to go into nursing.

The minute I graduated from nursing school, I knew that I wanted to be a travel nurse but since I didn’t think that it was possible until my son graduated from high school, I set forth getting as much diverse experience as I could get in medical, surgical, rehabilitative, psychiatric, and emergency nursing.  That was, until my son was having trouble at school, and things were happening with my staff position that I didn't like; therefore, it became very obvious that it was time to hit the road.

The minute I started thinking about travel nursing, I started gathering information for this book.  Now I am sharing the wealth of information that I gathered with other nurses who are thinking about going into travel nursing, and for those nurses who are currently traveling, but wondering where to go next and who can give them the best.  This will help you decide if travel nursing is right for you.

This book includes the following chapters: 

• An Introduction To Travel Nursing

• The Rewards And The Drawback Of Travel Nursing

• Do You Have What It Takes To Be A Travel Nurse?

• Getting Your Resume Polished

• Understanding The Structure Of The Travel Company

• Critical Elements In Choosing A Travel Company

• Choosing The Location And Hospital

• Your Contract With The Hospital

• Preparing For Take Off

• When The Times Get Tough

• Working Strikes

• My First Travel Nursing Assignment Journal

• Stories From Other Travel Nurses

• Travel Company Profiles

• Hospitals and Destinations

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