I talked about the importance of a cover letter and resume a few posts ago. While in graduate school, I worked as an advisor in helping other students prepare their cover letters, resumes, and go over interview skills. Having a solid cover letter is just one basic step in selling yourself to the organization that you want to hire you. Here is the first part you want to make sure and include in your cover letter: Read more »

Traveling Nurse Salary usually is based off of a base rate for a registered nurse. There are a variety of factors that will influence this base rate including your experience, the location of the assignment, and the specialty. However, the pay rate is usually very good and you can expect anywhere between $35 and $45 per hour as a base rate. If you add to that night shift differentials, that pay per hour will increase.

This is a nice traveling nurse salary and can be even better when medical centers also pass on a bonus to you for completing an assignment. For example, after you work a 13 week assignent you could receive anywhere between $500 and $6000. Read more »

When you are looking for the best travel nurse staffing company, you not only need an awesome cover letter and resume and to be ready for an interview, but it is important look and see what each company has to offer. What kind of benefits are the nursing agencies providing and what type of assignments do they have available are just a couple of questions.

Here are a few things that make travel nurse staffing agencies competitive and questions you should be asking them: Read more »

Nursing employment is a wide open field, and if you are looking for a career where you can have a positive impact on people’s lives, as well as make good money, it is hard to beat nursing.  Did you know that there is currently a severe shortage of nurses in America?  It’s true.  And medical and labor experts say that the shortage is not only going to continue, it is going to get worse.  Already many hospitals have more trouble staffing nurses than they do doctors, believe it or not.  They are offering huge monetary bonuses to newly hired nurses, and to nurses who refer new hires. One hospital in Dallas was even giving new hires a brand new Volkswagen Beetle! Read more »

Travel Nursing is growing in popularity, both on the side of nurses and employers. Travel nursing basically means that a nurse is hired out for a short contracted term to a medical facility in need of nurses.

Because there is a shortage of nurses, many health care centers have tried to come up with creative solutions. Hiring traveling nurses was one of the answers. And as the need has grown for traveling nurses, agencies have been created that specialize in placing nurses into the hospitals and centers that are in need of nurses.

Now here are some of the benefits of becoming a traveling nurse: Read more »

This post is going to cover the importance of preparing your cover letter and your resume for traveling nurse agencies. If you plan to apply online or offline, you still have to have a resume. Many times it is the first thing an employer will see before they decide whether or not they want to hire you.

The first thing that a traveling nurse agency is going to look at is your cover letter. This letter is going to go into some detail of what your training and experience is, but you will leave most of this list for your resume. Read more »

Here is something to think about for anyone who is undecided on a career, and are trying to figure out what would be an ideal job.  Nurse employment opportunities are exploding.  Even as you read this, there are thousands and thousands of nursing jobs in America going unfilled because of a huge shortage of trained nurses.  Pick up any Sunday paper in any city in America and check the classified ads for employment.  You’ll see a whole bunch of ads looking to hire nurses.  Many of them will be offering huge signing bonuses of five and even ten thousand dollars. Read more »

Nurse practitioner jobs are projected to be a growing opportunity in the coming years in the field of health care.  Many people do not realize it, but there is a growing shortage of doctors in the United States.  In fact, every year we import medical doctors from other countries to fill the growing need, and we still are coming up short.  This is especially true in America’s small towns and rural areas.  USA Today recently had an article on the growing number of small towns across America’s heartland that do not even have one practicing doctor.  Some experts are even referring to the situation as an outright crisis. Read more »

Health care jobs are one of the few “sure things” left in America when it comes to employment.  Are you looking for a career where you never have worry about being laid off?  And if for some stranger reason you would get laid off, you could have another job making great money in just a few days, because your skills are in such a demand?  Who would not want that for themselves?  But that is hardly how it is for people in America these days.  Just a few years ago, anybody with a computer-related degree could pretty much write their own ticket.  Finding a job was no problem, and if they decided they did not like the one they had, it was a snap to get another one. Read more »

Healthcare employment will be one of the true bright spots when it comes to career choices for the next several decades, according to just about any expert or authority you ask.  The job opportunities in this field are increasing every day, and the rate of increase is getting faster all the time.  Job opportunities for doctors, nurses, x-ray techs, medical assistants, certified nursing assistants, attendants, medical office managers, medical coding and billing, etc., will be wide open.  There are few, if any, career choices that can offer the employment choices and good salaries that healthcare professionals will enjoy for the foreseeable future. Read more »

I wanted to take this first post and give a few reasons I have for setting up this blog. I think that given the state of our current economy, job hunting is going to become more intense. People are going to be looking for and moving to better paying jobs. Also, many jobs continue to be outsourced to places such as India and Mexico. Despite these facts, employment in the nursing field is still needed, pays well, and you can choose to live almost anywhere you would want to work.

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