Now that Pennsylvania has opened its doors to registered nurses with a multistate license, it’s suddenly a lot more attractive as a travel nursing destination. But where should you go looking first? We’re going to tell you about the best city for travel nurses in Pennsylvania! There are two things that matter most here. First, […]
The train keeps on rolling: month after month, year after year, more and more states are joining the Nurse Licensure Compact! Progress seems unstoppable. An impressive roster of NLC laws has been enacted and implemented in recent years. No fewer than 36 states have now fully implemented the Compact. Since our last eNLC post, Ohio, […]
We’re always going on about how travel nursing is great because it gets you into all kinds of different work settings. Good for your professional development, enhances your skills, yadda yadda yadda, you know the drill! But what if it actually gets you a proper Hollywood-style job, working with the stars?! Just before Christmas we […]
Coming to your hospital soon? More strikes will follow What can you expect when you go on strike? What can you expect from working as a strike nurse? Unless you’ve been taking the strictest of mental health breaks from all news and social media, you’ll have heard about the huge nurses strike in New York […]
Imagine the shock: you’re half way down your drive from Florida to Wyoming for a travel nursing job, and you hear your contract has been canceled. No warning, no caveats: you simply thought you had a job, and then you didn’t, and now you have nothing to return to. Early last month, stories like these […]
One of the things we consider most valuable about this blog is that it allows us to share the important and inspiring stories nurses have to tell. Stories that are not heard often enough! Whether it’s accounts of heartbreaking bravery during the pandemic, moving tributes to nurse mentors or role models, an eyewitness account of […]
It’s a powerful symbol. Every day now, for weeks already, if you scroll down the New York Times homepage, you see the same thing. It’s a very plain graphic, with just three lines of text, underneath the header “Tracking the Coronavirus”. In red: “New cases”. Up. Every day, the number is up. In black: “New […]
Coronavirus is not over. The crisis response jobs are still there, and they pay well! We can help you find those nursing jobs. But we have to be honest about the costs too. We need urgent action to protect nurses better. Not just because many nurses are, incredibly, even now, still not getting the PPE […]
The Enhanced Nurse Licensure Compact (eNLC) is the easiest way to help American nurses find the jobs they need — and where they are needed most. But getting it implemented in new states can be a frustratingly drawn out and bureaucratic political process. Slowly but steadily, however, progress is being made! The latest milestone: as […]
The Nurse Licensure Compact has been making life for nurses easier since it was first launched in 1999, saving nurses who want to take up a job in another state the hassle of going through the process of obtaining a separate license. It’s a godsend especially for travel nurses, for whom applying for multiple licenses […]
