I worked with TNAA and had very good experiences with them. A quick paperwork, very organized, prepared me well for my first order. I think their salary is not the best, but my recruiter was ready to reach my rate. I have been a nurse for 5 years. I mainly worked in the emergency department, but the last year I was trained in the intensive care unit where you talked to many travelers who made BANK! You may think that homeless nurses are never confronted with hypothetical decisions like this, but in reality, they are regularly confronted with those decisions. Contracts are usually 36, 40 or 48 hours per week for 8 or 13 weeks. However, there are many other possible variants. These variations have a profound impact on salary packages. There`s an annual conference every September called TravCon (www.TravCon.org), which is just for travel nurses to meet with companies face-to-face, which is otherwise impossible. This is very useful because your recruiter is your lifeline when you need help solving problems on your behalf. Focusing on the base rate is another common pitfall that travelers encounter when evaluating payment. It is very common for nurses to scoff at a salary offer when they hear that the base rate is $20 per hour, or another figure that seems to indicate a low salary.
The problem is that the payment package consists of many different variables, all of which will find their way to your bank account. A travel nurse on my floor tells me how good the salary is, especially in times of Covid. A travel nurse I spoke to said that one of her friends makes $10,000 a week and lives in his RV, so he also collects the scholarships. The travel nurse told me how many travel nurses explore together in the new area, go out to eat together and all the jazz. Honestly, it sounds appealing. So, is it as good as advertised? You can make ridiculous money, because it feels like a year of travel care. My first hospital was a hospital that couldn`t keep nurses for a reason. Half of my floor was made up of itinerant nurses when I left. My current one hasn`t needed a single travel nurse in years and has very good employee satisfaction scores. Contracts of 10K per week are usually contracts of 60 to 72 hours per working week.
Some of the big companies in crisis that offer the big ones are Prolink, NuWest and Krucial. There are a few others, but I do not know all of them. You work hard for that money. I currently have a 48 hours/week contract that does 6K per week. However, it is before taxes. I also don`t get a PTO and my benefits are more expensive. If you do a 120k year with good benefits, it may not be very beneficial for you. But on the other hand, with a lack of care, you may still need a few months, sign crisis contracts, and then go back to your previous job. Just be sure to look at the bigger picture and research on duplication of expenses and the like to make sure it`s worth it for you. 120k/year is on the high side of care.
She`s SO GOOD and I`m so glad I have her. Hello, Do you have any tools I can use to calculate a nurse`s travel salary when I name the billing rate and contract duration? Any information you can provide would be greatly appreciated. I was wondering which companies you work for/pay the best. I just want to do a task for M/S. I did a few travel assignments with Medical Solutions a few years ago. I thought it was a decent business, but that was my only experience with travel, so I wonder what other companies are good? I had good experiences with Trustaff! I concluded 2 contracts with them. My time with Krucial was also a pretty cool experience, but very short. I only did 14 days with them.
I would also advise you to first look at where you want to go and then see which agency has the largest presence in the area. Good luck! Precovid I had several good travel assignments, but all of them were floating pools and not a specific unit, so it was more, they lacked 10 to 20 nurses for the whole hospital, not for one unit. This has resulted in its own challenges to ensure that there are no consistent colleagues, that there are never shifts in a row, that there are shifts, that every patientpsych/rotating at every shift because no floor knows that every floor does it, and that it is difficult to get referrals if you never work with someone over a shift or 2, but overall, not every layer was hell. Also gave places in the staff that travelers have used well to cover the new attitudes of the orientation phases (when a traveler and a new degree start at the same time, usually the new degree comes from the orientation to be independent, at the same time the traveler goes, only works if you have only 2 new graduates at a time) or maternity leave etc., but it`s not so much of a thing anymore It`s quite common for recruiters to receive calls from travel nurses looking for a new recruiter because they think they`re getting scammed by their current agency. In most cases, they spoke to another traveler who said she made a lot more money in the same hospital. However, there are many legitimate reasons why this can happen. For a detailed description, you can read our blog post on the reasons for salary differences in the same hospital. Again, the solution is to always take a holistic approach to travel health insurance packages by mixing the rate. .
