University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences

DECEMBER 30, 2024

The Impact of the Nursing Shortage Patient Safety and Quality: An Evidence-Based Handbook for Nurses 12 The nursing shortage of skilled RNs entering and remaining in the workforce affects patient care and other members of the healthcare team.

Nurse Shortage

The Gypsy Nurse

MARCH 25, 2025

As a travel healthcare professional, you spend your days (or nights!) This important work can often be exhausting and thankless, leading to potential burnout. One way that you can avoid burnout is to take time away from work to relax and recharge, focusing on yourself and your relationships.

Self-Care

The Gypsy Nurse

MARCH 11, 2023

It helps prevent nursing burnout by ensuring you have time to rest and relax away from work, and it also reduces stress levels so you can perform better on the job. Symptoms of Stress and Nursing Burnout   Trying to juggle too many things at once can be a recipe for stress and nursing burnout.

Work-Life Balance

Travel Nursing Central

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

I’ll generally take time off Travel Nursing around Thanksgiving so I can spend some ‘holiday’ time at home before the mad rush of the actual holiday begins. I think I was experiencing Travel Burn Out and I’ve learned some lessons along the way. What tips do you have for the travelers to elevate these?

Nursing Burnout

The Gypsy Nurse

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Defined as the “physical or mental collapse caused by overwork or stress,” many elements of nursing are responsible: long hours, emotional exhaustion, trauma, and many say Covid. However, nursing burnout has been a factor long before Covid. Burnout is growing, yet the nurse still perceives the symptoms as normal.

Nursing Burnout

The Gypsy Nurse

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

And if you’re a travel nurse, you should be practicing self-care for travel nurses. Learn why self-care is so important, especially for travel nurses, and quick ways you can implement self-care today. Check out the Jogan Health blog to find more nurse lifestyle articles. Did you learn something?

Self-Care

The Gypsy Nurse

AUGUST 12, 2024

Jackson Nurse Professionals provided this article. As a travel nurse, the period between contracts offers a wonderful chance to rejuvenate, contemplate, and possibly enhance your earnings. What to do between travel nurse contracts? The period between travel nurse contracts doesn’t have to be a time of uncertainty.

Travel Nursing

The Gypsy Nurse

JUNE 18, 2023

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.

Mental Health

Diversity Nursing

JULY 10, 2023

In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, Nurses have experienced higher rates of burnout which has led to an increased number of Nurses leaving bedside Nursing or even the Nursing profession altogether. We can expect travel Nursing to continue to grow in popularity.

Travel Nursing

Nurse Deck

JANUARY 30, 2023

Nursing isn’t the cut and dry job you think it is. Travel nursing and staff nursing are two of the most popular specialties today. These two offer completely different experiences for nurses. What is a travel nurse? Overtime pay in travel nursing is lucrative, with extra overtime pay of about $13,750.

Travel Nursing

MAS Medical Staffing

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

The past few years have spotlighted the many challenges nurses face—understaffing and burnout being two primary issues. Today, healthcare workers are leaving behind longtime traditional roles for the freedom and lifestyle that travel nursing provides. Why Should I Become A Travel Nurse?

Travel Nursing

Nursing Management

APRIL 28, 2024

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Travel Nursing

The Gypsy Nurse

AUGUST 21, 2024

An aging population, nurse burnout, and a wave of retirements among experienced nurses have left many facilities scrambling to fill gaps. If you’re considering travel nursing and want to go where help is needed most, here’s a friendly guide to the states where RNs are currently in very high demand.

Travel Nursing

American Nurse

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Cost of nurse turnover Heavy workloads and job stress heightened during the COVID-19 pandemic, which led to job burnout and contributed to the nursing shortage. In an attempt to address the shortage, hospitals paid hefty turnover costs associated with travel nurses and additional orientation classes. StatPearls.

Professional Development

Nurse.com

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Recently, nurses have navigated their careers through a global pandemic, a travel nursing boom, supply issues, and continue to face an ongoing nursing shortage. Nearly 30% of nurses considered leaving the profession in 2021, compared to 11% in 2020, according to Nurse.com’s 2022 Nurse Salary Research Report.

Military

Daily Nurse

JULY 24, 2023

Doing Our Part for Nurses As an organization that helps connect healthcare facilities with travel nurses to meet their staffing needs, we employ a team who works to counsel and support all our clinicians at all stages of their assignment. We strongly urge our peers within the industry to value the same.

Mental Health

Relias

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Nurses from the Fierce Healthcare survey stated that they needed increased pay and work incentives to stay in the field (86%). Travel nursing and flex nurses have been a saving grace by offsetting the current staffing shortage. The Nurse Salary Report indicated that 90% of hospital leaders hired travel nurses in 2020.

Travel Nursing

Daily Nurse

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Anne Dabrow Woods has incredible insight into nursing as a practicing critical care nurse practitioner and nursing educator with over 39 years of experience and counting. There are several temporary solutions to address staffing shortages and burnout, like gig apps and traveling nursing.

Nurse Shortage

The Gypsy Nurse

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Our job board is a great place to search for your next travel nurse assignment. If you are a new traveler or looking into becoming a Travel Nurse: START HERE Travel Nurse Guide: Step by Step The post Battling Burnout: Take Time to Care for Yourself appeared first on The Gypsy Nurse.

Travel Nursing

American Nurse

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Rising Healthcare Costs Nursing shortages affect the economy beyond healthcare. Hospitals may spend more on temporary staffing needs, travel nurses, or overtime compensation. Possible Solutions Enhancing Nursing Education Expanding and improving nursing education is essential to solving the shortage. Clarke S.P.,

Nurse Shortage

MAS Medical Staffing

JANUARY 19, 2023

4 Travel Opportunities Have an island beach vacation on the horizon—but want to take a per diem nurse job in the meanwhile? With block scheduling worked into your travel nurse contract, you can keep your travel plans at no sunken cost. A typical nursing schedule may have you working 5 days per week, every week.

Health Insurance

Premier Medical Staffing

AUGUST 15, 2023

The repercussions for violating professional boundaries can also go beyond professional chastisement and lead to nurse burnout and turnover , compassion fatigue , and negative mental health outcomes.

HIPAA

Premier Medical Staffing

AUGUST 15, 2023

The repercussions for violating professional boundaries can also go beyond professional chastisement and lead to nurse burnout and turnover , compassion fatigue , and negative mental health outcomes.

HIPAA

The Gypsy Nurse

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Nurses and other healthcare workers experienced heightened levels of change and the stress that came with it. As the pandemic continued, travel nurses supported healthcare systems in unprecedented ways, benefitting patients, healthcare facilities, and their fellow nurses alike. What did we learn?

Travel Nursing

Nurse.com

MAY 13, 2022

Nurses discussed work environments where they have felt pressure to put aside their personal needs for food, bathroom breaks, and rest because they don’t want to let down their colleagues and their patients when staffing isn’t high enough to meet patient demand. There is not a nursing shortage.

Travel Nursing

The Gypsy Nurse

MARCH 27, 2023

Why did so many nurses lose their benefits and PTO? The lack of support we experienced is just scratching the surface of the real impact the pandemic had on nursing. While many of us had turned to travel nursing to earn a fair and decent wage, thousands of us have left patient care for good because we have finally realized our worth.

Mental Health

American Nurse

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Rural hospitals losing hundreds of staff to high-paid traveling nurse jobs. nbcnews.com/business/business-news/rural-hospitals-losing-hundreds-staff-high-paid-traveling-nurse-jobs-n1279199 National Council of State Boards of Nursing. NCSBN research projects significant nursing workforce shortages and crisis.

Self-Care