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Finding Balance: Healthcare Workers’ Guide to Preventing Burnout and Maintaining Well-Being 

Advantage Medical Professionals provided this article. Burnout may feel like just a buzzword, given the heightened awareness over the last few years, but it’s certainly not a new concept. In 1997, the Maslach Burnout Inventory Manual defined burnout as “a syndrome of emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and a sense of low personal accomplishment that leads to decreased effectiveness at work.”1 The same study also indicated that “burnout seems to occur mainly in professions involving interaction with people, such as physicians, nurses, social workers, and teachers.” Of course, this finding comes as no surprise for anyone who’s worked in a bedside healthcare setting.  The best…

Top 5 AI Tools & Lifehack Apps for Travel Nurses

NuWest provided this article. “Work Smarter, Not Harder.” We’ve all heard this common advice, and some of us are better at putting it into practice than others. With a demanding profession such as nursing, the need to steal back time each day becomes even more important. Less time wasted on mundane tasks means more time focused on the well-being of ourselves and our patients. The challenges and responsibilities of travel nursing often spill over into our personal lives, leaving too little time for self-care and relaxation, and left unchecked, can contribute to burnout. Luckily for us, we are living in…

Journaling with Purpose: Journaling Tips for Travel Nurses

As everyone knows, healthcare can be a difficult environment to work in. Long hours, being short-staffed, and taking care of sick patients make nursing and other healthcare jobs hard. Many nurses find journaling a good way to de-stress in between shifts.  Benefits of Journaling. Journaling has been shown to have several benefits, including: Reduces symptoms of stress, anxiety, and depression Improves mood and overall mental health. Improves sleep. Enhances the immune system. Decreases compassion fatigue and burnout among nurses. Helps a person understand and manage their emotions. If you are new to journaling, you may find it difficult to get…

Nursing Shortage Woes: How Will Current Staffing Trends Affect You as a Travel Nurse?

Jogan Health provided this article. 2023 has been a year full of twists and turns for the healthcare industry. One of the most pressing issues – as evidenced by the massive amount of media coverage – is the current nursing shortage. As a travel nurse, you might be wondering how this is going to affect your career. To assuage any anxiety you might be feeling, we want to remind our readers at TGN of the opportunities this provides. That’s right; we said opportunities! Because even though this trend represents an obstacle for many sections of our industry, if you are a…

Travel Nursing: A Family Affair

Advantage Medical Professionals provided this article. The unprecedented uptick in remote work policies and online education programs have arguably made the world feel a little bit smaller and more accessible for more of us than ever before. Of course, as a healthcare professional, it probably seems that not much has changed for us on that front. After all, our “office” is always wherever our patients are, and wearing your scrubs is probably the closest you’ll ever get to working in your pajamas. However, you can still reap some of the benefits this brave new world provides – the ever-growing remote work…

What to Consider for Your Travel Nurse Destination

Being a travel nurse offers a lot of opportunities and challenges. It allows nurses to explore different locations, meet new people, and enhance their skills. As a travel nurse, choosing your destination plays a crucial role in your work experience, success, and overall happiness. In this blog post, we will discuss what factors to consider when choosing your travel nurse destination. 1. Job Opportunities: Nurses have different specialties, and destinations have different staffing needs. It’s important to consider the job opportunities available in your chosen destination. Research the different healthcare facilities and the types of jobs available. Consider the demand…

How Travel Nursing Benefits Your Mental Health

Medical Solutions provided this article. As a nurse, you feel it in your mind, body, and soul — and you see it in your colleagues’ weary eyes. Between an ever-growing nurse staffing shortage, an increased need for patient care, and a once-in-a-lifetime pandemic, nurse burnout is at an all-time high, and nurse mental health is suffering. “I’ve been a nurse since 2014, and I love people, but I could not find my niche in nursing,” Alyssa Gainer, RN, said. “I switched jobs every one to two years, and after COVID started, I was ready for a new profession.” Gainer, a Medical…

10 Job Hunting Tips for Travel Nurses: Do’s and Don’ts

To many people, becoming a travel nurse sounds like a dream, and it most certainly is. And fortunately, finding a job as a travel nurse isn’t as hard as it sounds. As more and more hospitals become understaffed, travel nurses are the light at the end of the tunnel for their patients. With that said, no hospital, care home, or practice is going to hand you a job. You’ll need to follow some highly curated job-hunting tips if you want your application to stand out. In this article, we’ll show you the many do’s and don’ts of job hunting for…

Nervous Nursing: How to Manage Stress as a Rookie Travel Nurse

Jogan Health provided this article. With a looming staffing shortage on the horizon and a high demand for temporary placement, it is no mystery that more healthcare professionals are flocking to travel nursing. After all, in recent years, the job has provided professionals the opportunity to gain wide and varied experience quickly, offered them a chance to see different cities and towns, and helped organizations quickly cover gaps in their roster. Moreover, travel nursing has become an effective solution to healthcare provider burnout. A source of recurring work and a gold mine of experience, it can be one of the…

Saluting the Evolution of Nursing and Centuries of Heroism

Go Healthcare Staffing provided this article. Nursing is the nation’s largest healthcare profession, with more than four million registered nurses (RNs) nationwide and a projected increase of 200,000 per year through 2031. Thousands of RNs enjoy the freedom and flexibility as a travel nurse, a more recent phenomenon of the industry.  Nursing Pools, or professional staffing agencies, place nurses in temporary healthcare assignments where permanent staff cannot adequately serve patient admissions. This more contemporary just-in-time, on-demand approach to staffing has allowed hospitals to minimize labor gaps and improve the quality of care. The nursing profession has evolved over centuries to include…