travel nurses
Mobile medical staff
Travel nurses are registered nurses who take temporary assignments at healthcare facilities away from their home base, typically for 8-26 weeks.
Hospitals facing staff shortages hire travel nurses through staffing agencies to fill gaps.
The work offers higher pay and the chance to experience different regions: She spent two years as a travel nurse before settling in Denver.
Travel nursing surged during the COVID-19 pandemic when hospitals desperately needed reinforcements.
- staffing agencyBusiness matching workers to jobs
- scrubsMedical staff uniform
- hospitalMedical treatment facility
- temporaryLimited in duration
- assignmentAllocated work or duty
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- healthcare workersdoctor, surgeon, dentist, paramedic, pharmacist
- nursingRN, LPN, LPNs, CNAs, CNA
- staffingstaffing, turnover rates, hiring, staffing firm, staffing agency
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