Every person wants to travel to different places to enjoy meeting other people in different nationalities and looking for wonderful views and tourist spots in a country or state. But travelling alone is not possible for all because one needs to work first to gain income and savings which will be used for travelling. There is a field in nursing industry where you can both work to have income and at the same time enjoy the travelling to different places.
Travel nursing is another field in nursing where it is becoming in demand because of the opportunity of nurses to travel. Because of the shortage problems in nurses both in Canada and United States, they can solve it through sending more nurses to places where there is a need especially in hospitals that seriously need the services of more nurses.
The nursing industry gives both the hospitals and nurses lot of benefits. The nurses can look and choose the best company that would provide them the right salary and other medical allowances together with the benefits that the company offered. All the expenses like the expenses for the travel back and forth are being covered by the company. Allotted allowances will be given for meals, lodging and rental of boarding houses. The salaries are based on the working experiences of the nurse in the field of health care and any other medical field and usually being paid of by hour. Travelling nurses are being paid higher and about twenty percent (20%) more as compared to nurses that serve as staffs in the same hospitals.
The hospitals also benefits from having travelling nurses because they are experiencing the shortage of manpower in their medical fields. The hired travelling nurses are used to fill in the needed services in some fields where nurses are lacking of. With the benefits the hospital gained from hiring travel nurses, the process for searching the right nurses are also hard for them.
Travel nurses are widely in demand to hospitals in some places but some hospital doctors are complaining for their performances. They have some skills that a nurse must have but lack on the familiarities on the facilities in the hospitals and the treasured culture of the citizens.
Travel Nursing as the Best Field or the Worst Career for Nurses?
Travel nursing is a very popular profession for nurses because it can also easily attract both the fresh graduates and the long time nurses in entering this career. Better benefits are offered to this profession and they are oftentimes given higher salary rate and the most is for letting them to travel without worrying the cost and even enjoying the new places while they are working. With all these benefits that the travel nurses receive, some nurses describe this a the worst profession or field for them.
Travel nurses are sometimes believed to be similar to a truck driver because they may both see new and wonderful places as they travel but they are unable to experience the things that they really wanted to do. They cannot spend the whole day in beaches and make fun because their job is calling them. You cannot prolong your stay in a place or you cannot go to other places where you wanted most.
Positive and even negative points are expected in any career or profession. This is also observed in travel nursing wherein there are also some negative points that usually the reason why there are many nurses that do not pursue this profession. In this career, most of your time and service are badly needed by the hospitals. Sometimes, viewing of wonderful sight is only experienced when you need to move to another place where travel time is very limited.