Ask a Travel Nurse: What can I do if my actual contract differs from the offer? Ask a Travel Nurse Question: Hey David, WOW, what a great website. I wish I had known about this years ago. I’ve been a Travel Nurse for over six years and recently ran into an issue for which you may be able to offer some advice. I have been working with a staffing company in California to find a position in Arizona. We negotiated a deal via text message. While pressing them to provide a contract in a timely manner, they really drug their feet. The rep had every excuse in the book, but did provide me with an off ..read more

Smile, Travel Nurses! Your positive impact in the healthcare world is awesome. Travel Nurses are just the coolest. Who else gets to travel the country for their career, do work that really matters to patients and families, use their talents and training in all kinds of different environments, and make new friends nationwide? They may not always get their due, but Travel Nurses do a lot to strengthen the healthcare industry as a whole, especially as the U.S. nurse shortage increases. Of course, all nurses make a hugely positive impact in the healthcare world, but this blog’s devoted stric ..read more

Ask a Travel Nurse: Is it better for tax purposes to take company housing or the stipend and per diem? Ask a Travel Nurse Question: Is it better for tax purposes to take company housing or the stipend and per diem? Do you take the company-provided housing from your company? Also, who’s your favorite agency and why? Thanks on all counts! Ask a Travel Nurse Answer: Your question is really hard to address from a tax perspective because nurses will have different tax situations and primarily, it’s not really stipend versus company-provided housing, but rather, being an itinerant worker ver ..read more

Dear Nurses, you are awesome! Love, Z Dogg MD Travel Nursing Blogs has previously shared videos from “the Weird Al of healthcare,” Z Dogg MD — but this time he’s really outdone himself. Z Dogg MD, AKA Dr. Zubin Damania, has created a video parody of Tupac Shakur’s awesome matriarchal melody, “Dear Mama,” in which Shakur sang the praises of his mother’s enduring strength. Z Dogg obviously knows who else has such enduring strength, so he made this great video tribute to nurses everywhere. It’s not all fun and games for the funnyman this time around, as he takes a moment to honor nurses as “the ..read more