Money, freedom, and flexibility rank high in their motivation for traveling. Traveling, with its freedom, flexibility, and sense of adventure, can help nurses find satisfaction with their job and ...

Anthony Swain, 32, earned over $100,000 as a travel nurse in 2023. He said travel nursing has given him more control over his schedule and helped him avoid burnout. Some hospitals are turning to ...

Jordan Young is Co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of AMX Healthcare, a leading national allied health & travel nurse staffing agency. Travel nursing can be traced as far back as the 19th century ...

Staff nurses are burned out and trading stability for the flexibility and pay of travel nursing. Many enjoy the perks of travel nursing and feel they have more control over their mental health. But ...

A traveling nurse undertakes short-term assignments, typically for a few weeks up to several months. They usually work in hospitals or other healthcare facilities anywhere in the country or ...

A new report outlining a “record-breaking” number of private equity deals involving travel nursing agencies during 2021 and beyond suggests that short-term profit-seeking and potential conflicts of ...

Many nurses enter the profession to help others, but long hours, stress, and burnout during the COVID-19 pandemic have taken a toll on the profession, contributing to shortages throughout the health ...

Some travel nurses who left full-time hospital jobs during the pandemic have no plans to return. But there is a subset of reachable nurses who say they would consider returning to a full-time bedside ...

The nursing shortage has led to a greater reliance on travel nurses — who come with big price tags — at hospitals around the country. According to leading travel nursing agency Aya Healthcare, there ...

IOWA CITY — The mother-baby floor — famous for its infant coos and cries and first meetings and feedings — is supposed to be the “happy floor.” But even that unit at MercyOne Medical Center in Des ...

From $10,000 a week during the peak of the pandemic to an average $3,000 now, Georgia suffered the fourth biggest decline in weekly travel nurse pay during January 2023. In Feb. 2023, as reported by ...