The Gypsy Nurse

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Ever wonder how travel nurses make good money while exploring new places? If youre thinking about becoming a travel nurse, understanding your travel nurse pay package is key. What is a Travel Nurse Pay Package? Travel Nurse Base Pay What is Base Pay? Theyre often tax-free!

Travel Nursing

The Gypsy Nurse

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Written By: Taylor Dupont, Marketing Specialist, Medical Edge Recruitment Travel nursing has emerged as a dynamic and rewarding career path for many healthcare professionals. In this guide, we will explore what travel nursing agencies are, their functions, and the numerous benefits they provide to nurses.

Travel Nursing

The Gypsy Nurse

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Hello, Canadian travel nurses! travel nursing offers a fantastic pathway for both professional and personal growth. travel nursing, here’s a comprehensive guide on why its worth the leap. Opportunities for Canadian Travel Nurses: A Quick Guide Why Opt for U.S. Travel Nursing?

Travel Nursing

The Gypsy Nurse

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Are you preparing for your first travel nursing assignment and not sure what to pack? Below are the top 10 recommended must-haves for your next travel nursing trip. Secure your spot among the top travel nurses and be first in line for interviews. How long does your travel nursing job take?

Travel Nursing

The Gypsy Nurse

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Travel Nurse Across America provided this article. If you haven’t started thinking about your 2025 travel assignments, it’s time to get a jump-start on planning your travel nursing assignments for the new year. Are your credentials and licenses ready for the location you want to go? Where will you stay?

Travel Nursing

The Gypsy Nurse

MAY 2, 2025

One of the biggest draws of travel nursing is the opportunity to earn higher pay while enjoying a flexible lifestyle. Travel nurse pay includes more than just a base wageit often comes with tax-free stipends and other financial benefits that can significantly increase your take-home pay.

Travel Nursing

The Gypsy Nurse

JULY 8, 2025

The life of a travel nurse can be full of excitement and adventure, but it can also cause a ton of stress and inconvenience without the right preparation. To help you avoid this situation, we’ve made a list of 6 packing tips for travel nurses that are easy to remember and simple to do. Let’s get started.

Travel Nursing

The Gypsy Nurse

MAY 26, 2025

Summer is one of the best seasons for travel nursing. The right travel nurse agency wont just find you a jobtheyll advocate for your preferences, guide you through licensing and onboarding, help secure housing, and be your support system throughout your assignment. You can build in downtime between contracts.

Travel Nursing

The Gypsy Nurse

JULY 27, 2025

For travel nurses, they can be the difference between thriving on the road and running on empty. You became a travel nurse for the adventure, the flexibility, the freedom. A recent global review found that over 61% of nurses worldwide report anxiety, depression, or burnout, and 57% feel exhausted every single day.

Travel Nursing

The Gypsy Nurse

MARCH 24, 2025

This trend could give travel professionals more flexibility, allowing them to work from the comfort of their own homes or from any location that suits their lifestyle. Increased demand translates into more job opportunities, competitive pay, and a higher level of job security for travel healthcare professionals.

Travel Nursing

The Gypsy Nurse

JULY 2, 2025

Travel nursing is one of the most exciting and rewarding career paths in healthcare. It offers licensed nurses the opportunity to explore new places, gain diverse clinical experiences, and often earn higher pay than traditional staff nurses. But how do you become a travel nurse?

Travel Nursing

The Gypsy Nurse

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

TAX SEASON – TIPS TO PREPARE With tax season just around the corner, here are quick tips to simplify filing as a traveling clinician! Keep Records: Save pay stubs, receipts for housing, travel, meals, licenses, and certifications. Find Your Next Travel Nurse Assignment with Our Job Board!

Travel Nursing

The Gypsy Nurse

JUNE 3, 2025

The demand for travel healthcare professionals, including travel nurses and allied health professionals, is higher than ever. These agencies connect travel nurses, physical therapists, respiratory therapists, medical technologists, and other allied health professionals with top-paying assignments.

Travel Nursing

Every Nurse

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

This role is often considered less stressful due to: Regular daytime hours with weekends and summers off Less intense patient care compared to hospital settings Focus on preventive care and health education Requirements typically include an RN license, pediatric nursing experience, and sometimes school nurse certification.

Outpatient Clinic

The Gypsy Nurse

MAY 10, 2025

Everything you do for your UK nursing license will be through them. If youve done any travel nursing, you might already have a lot of the documents they will want on hand! So youve started your application with the NMC, and theyve approved you to start getting licensed to be a nurse in the UK!

Travel Nursing

The Gypsy Nurse

JULY 12, 2025

You’ve scoped out the best local coffee shop and even found a gym with travel nurse discounts. In 2025, one of the top non-clinical challenges facing travel nurses is the slowdown in credentialing, and it’s not talked about enough. But then… crickets. Your start date is suddenly pending because credentialing is delayed.

Travel Nursing

Daily Nurse

JULY 29, 2025

Whether you’re working nights, rotating shifts, or adjusting to life on the road as a travel nurse, finding time to care for yourself can feel nearly impossible. Moodfit is easy to use and is especially helpful for nurses with hectic schedules who want to stay balanced. Cost: Free; $39.99/yr yr for premium. Rating: 4.7/5

Mental Health

The Gypsy Nurse

MARCH 4, 2025

Because of this, the demand for ICU nurses and ICU travel nurses remains high. The rise in chronic and severe illnesses is also a factor in the high demand for ICU nurses. Whether that is CT Techs, X-ray techs, or licensed in one of the many modalities that radiology offers, the need is there. Comment them below.

Travel Nursing

The Gypsy Nurse

JUNE 10, 2025

That’s where working with travel nurse agencies can make a difference. How Travel Nurse Agencies Support Hospitals and Nurses Hospitals don’t always have the staff they need. But for many travel nurses, these roles are also a way to gain more flexibility in their careers, travel the U.S.,

Travel Nursing

The Gypsy Nurse

MARCH 20, 2025

This attention to your home state is very important in protecting your practice license especially if you hold a multistate compact license in your profession. When professional practice boards validate these licenses at renewal, they look for the normal signs that the applicant is truly a resident of that state.

Licensing

Daily Nurse

DECEMBER 2, 2024

.” The Power of Data to Improve Healthcare I’ve never met a nurse who got into the profession to become wealthy. People enter nursing because they are driven to help others. Such blatant pay disparities fuel the low morale that plagues too many nurses.

Travel Nursing

Registered Nursing

JULY 28, 2025

Students keep the general–education credits earned during their first bachelor's program and dive straight into nursing science, simulation labs, and supervised clinical rotations. Many ABSN graduates progress into MSN or DNP pathways if advanced practice interests you, the Nurse Practitioner overview outlines the admission steps.

Military

The Gypsy Nurse

JULY 26, 2025

If you are considering getting into travel nursing, one of the first terms you might read about is a “tax home”. This term can be a bit confusing, but it is an important thing to understand in order to make sure you are being correctly taxed on your earnings and honestly reporting your “home” to your travel nursing company.

Travel Nursing

Registered Nursing

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Related Nursing Careers to Consider: Missionary Nurse Travel Nurse 3. Medicolegal Death Investigator Forensic nurses can also work as medicolegal death investigators (MDIs), helping medical examiners determine cause of death in suspicious cases.

Military

The Gypsy Nurse

JUNE 20, 2025

Plus, when the merger is between two agencies like TNAA and TotalMed—both known for their strong reputations, dedicated recruiters, and traveler-first approach—it’s a partnership that’s built to benefit travel nurses. More travelers mean more perspectives—and each traveler has a unique story that brought them to travel nursing.

Travel Nursing

Registered Nursing

JULY 29, 2025

Where an ABSN Can Lead A Dayton BSN unlocks bedside and non-bedside roles across southwest Ohio: Medical-surgical nurse assignments at Miami Valley or Kettering Health Community health initiatives through Public Health – Dayton & Montgomery County Level I trauma experience in emergency departments is valuable for future Travel Nurse contracts.

Military

Registered Nursing

JUNE 9, 2025

An RN license and prerequisite courses are required, with the program structured for completion in about a year, making it a swift path to advancement. It emphasizes leadership development and advanced nursing practices, equipping graduates for supervisory positions in diverse healthcare settings.

Leadership

The Gypsy Nurse

MAY 6, 2025

Dawna Ursillo, Licensing Specialist : My sister is a nurse, an LPN for 40 years. She is a very dedicated nurse and cares about all her patients. Because of her and all nurses dedication and love of their job, the patients have benefited greatly. Meghan Pinkham, Recruiter : Thank You, Travel Nurses!

Travel Nursing

The Gypsy Nurse

MAY 14, 2025

People want their skills valued in every profession, and nursing is no exception. For travel nurses, working in a high-demand specialty means better job security, higher pay rates, and more flexibility in choosing where and when you work. So, which travel nurse specialties are currently the most sought-after?

Travel Nursing

The Gypsy Nurse

MAY 20, 2025

Mental Health Awareness Month May 2025 Life as a travel nurse or clinician is full of adventure, but it also comes with a unique set of stressors: adapting to new environments, navigating shifting schedules, and often being far from your support system. Facebook Groups Try Travel Nurse Housing or local travel nurse groups.

Travel Nursing

The Gypsy Nurse

JULY 15, 2025

These include driver’s licenses, car registration, memberships, where you get your mail, the home state of your professional practice license , etc. Travel nurses occupy a different sphere. How do the tax rules address the travel nurse? The definition of a tax residence for these individuals is no different.

Travel Nursing

The Gypsy Nurse

JUNE 28, 2025

In my last article with TGN, I explained the general process of getting licensed in the UK to work as an international nurse. This might sound boring and tedious (it is), but it is important and is a huge part of the process for getting licensed. Watch for Part 3 of Becoming an International Nurse in the UK!

Licensing

The Gypsy Nurse

JULY 19, 2025

Here we are for round three of how to get licensed as an international nurse in the UK! Picking up where we left off in my second article, on becoming an international nurse, we are getting into the rest of the paperwork. And stay tuned here because my next post about being an international nurse will be a lot more fun!

Travel Nursing

The Gypsy Nurse

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

Travel Nursing has certainly hit a spike in the last 15 years, and for good reason! One of the greatest things that nurses say about traveling for their job is the ability to add a checkmark on their bucket list. The more licenses you are able to receive, the more flexibility you’ll have to travel!

Travel Nursing

Scrubs

AUGUST 12, 2023

Have you met a travel nurse in your unit? If so, you might have heard their stories of adventure, traveling, fun and wondered how you can become a travel nurse. The good news, is any nurse can become a travel nurse. What are the benefits of being a travel nurse?

Travel Nursing

The Gypsy Nurse

MARCH 18, 2023

International Travel Nursing can be a complicated and time-consuming process. If you are looking into International Travel nursing, we recommend allowing yourself a minimum of 6 months to prepare and obtain the required certifications, visas, and licensing. Are you an international travel nurse?

Travel Nursing

NexNurse

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

Travel nursing stands out as a beacon in healthcare careers, offering a blend of adventure and a fulfilling career pathway. We've gathered the most commonly asked questions about travel nursing and provide you with detailed answers. What Is Travel Nursing? Do I Need Different Licensing for Travel Nursing?

Travel Nursing