5 Tips For Staying Happy and Healthy as a Travel Nurse
If you’re a nurse hoping to get into the traveling medical profession, you probably have a lot of questions. While the career is exciting and full of unique opportunities, it also brings some unique stressors and can be difficult if you’re not properly prepared. As a nurse, it’s vital that your health is in top shape as you travel. This article will help you find ways to stay happy and healthy and at the top of your game as you prepare for takeoff. Tips to help you stay happy and healthy 1. Stay Healthy It’s difficult to stay on top…
Fun Tips for Travel Nursing
If you are a nurse looking to try something new and exciting, you should consider travel nursing! Travel nursing is pretty much exactly what it sounds like. As a Registered Nurse, you work with a travel nurse staffing agency that sends you out to travel to different hospitals that are lacking in resources and need extra nurses for certain periods of time. Contracts typically last around thirteen weeks and then you move on to another spot. This provides an opportunity for nurses to continue the work they love while also seeing new places and meeting new people. With this interesting…
5 Things You NEED From Amazon for Your Next Travel Assignment
This article was provided by TruStaff Healthcare. Planning what to pack for your next travel assignment can be a challenging task. With limited room in your car, you’ve got to be smart about what you bring! Everyday necessities like clothes, toiletries, shoes, and your nursing bag are a no brainer, but what else can help make your next assignment feel like home? We’ve created this Travel Nursing Amazon Wish List to add a few helpful items to your packing list that you just can’t miss! (Plus, let’s face it, we all love a good Amazon buy and Prime shipping!) Filtered…
5 Ways to Stay Healthy on Your Vacation
Vacations are fun ways to get some much-needed rest and relaxation with family or friends. While they are good for your mental and emotional health, they can really derail your healthy habits, though. Here are some ways to keep yourself on track even while you’re traveling. While these tips for staying healthy are great for vacations they can also come in handy while you are on your travel nurse assignment. Staying healthy while on vacations 1. Drink Lots of Water It’s all too easy to forget to stay hydrated while you’re traveling, whether it’s because the water tastes bad, you…
Adopting a Minimalist-ish Lifestyle
This article was provided by Onestaff Medical. Minimalist Lifestyle If any lifestyle is a good fit for someone that travels months at a time for work, it’s a minimalist lifestyle. Not only for the obvious reason (being able just to grab the bare necessities and hit the road for your next hot new assignment) but because when you’re traveling as much as we do, you don’t settle in and make habits to collect too often. Well, living a minimalist-ish lifestyle can help us emotionally/ mentally also. It keeps our lives less free of clutter, which results in positive effects on…
10 Mental Health Tips For Nurses During the COVID-19 Pandemic
This article provided by Medely. During a time that may feel out-of-control for many nurses, it’s important to take control of our mental health and try our best to focus on self-care when away from work. You owe it to yourself to intentionally control how you spend time away from work and where you place your thoughts in-between shifts. After returning home from work, most nurses must quarantine themselves, giving them few outlets to deal with the heavy mental load required of them in the workplace. “I’m scared. For myself, husband, family, my coworkers. I just take it day by…
Travel Light: How to Stay Fit and Light on the Go
As a frequent traveler over the past eight years, whether for personal leisure travel or business travel as a travel nurse, I have found three mainstays that keep me feeling fit and light no matter where life takes me. Pack healthy snacks The challenge of eating well while traveling is packing light, health, nutrient-rich snacks. If you’re a frequent flyer and dealing with airline meals and unhealthy airport food this can be a challenge. Even once you’re at your destination, the struggle to find healthy restaurant choices in an unfamiliar city is also a daunting task. The key is to…
5 Ways To Stay Safe On Your Next Road Trip
Typically traveled by automobile or a car, there is nothing as appealing as a road trip, what with the sun behind and wild, open spaces before you. You already know it, don’t you? Was your last road trip both fun and safe? While road trips are certainly liberating and full of cheerful conversations, refreshing music, and thrilling sightseeing halts, they also require careful preparation to make them safe. So, will not you like to make safety a priority while planning your next road trip? Here are 5 ways to stay safe on your next road trip: Image Source 1) Get…
A Travel Nurse’s Guide to Crisis Assignments
Tips for Crisis Assignments: 1. Review your contract: Thoroughly review your pay rate, overtime rate, and housing stipend. These contracts are going to be more than 36 hours. They will be at least 48 hours, some are 60 hours a week. Also, keep in mind your filing status and ask for your take-home pay after taxes. Not gross pay but net pay this is a definite need to know!! Make sure your housing stipend is enough to cover you during and after the assignment if you have a difficult time leaving the city. Lastly, check with your company’s policy on…
5 Tips When Volunteering Abroad
Giving of your self and time is a big commitment. Here are some tips from a fellow volunteer travel nurse on volunteering abroad. 5 Tips When Volunteering Abroad Stay open minded, positive, and flexible. There is no such thing as ‘over-packing’. Do your Research. What you put in, is what you get out. Your way, isn’t always the BEST way. • Be & Stay Open Honestly, you never know what can happen. You may triage kids using a Clorox Wipes Canister as your desk, water may run out, or your truck may catch a flat and your team has to…