travel nurse
Mobile healthcare worker
A travel nurse is a registered nurse who takes short-term assignments at hospitals or healthcare facilities away from home, typically for 8 to 26 weeks.
Travel nurses fill temporary staffing shortages and are often employed through specialized agencies that arrange housing and transportation: She worked as a travel nurse in three different states last year.
The role expanded dramatically during healthcare crises when facilities faced acute personnel needs.
- staffing agencyBusiness matching workers to jobs
- hospitalMedical treatment facility
- assignmentAllocated work or duty
- on assignmentSent to cover something
- RNCertified healthcare professional
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- temporary rolestemp, temp worker, internship, substitute, interim
- nursingRN, LPN, LPNs, CNAs, CNA
- healthcare staffingdoctor, surgeon, physician, pharmacist, therapist
- Travel Healthvaccinations, immunizations, medical kit, first aid kit, health advisory
- Nursing CredentialsRN, LPN, NP, APRN, CNA
- nomadsnomad, nomadism, Bedouin, wanderer, roaming
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