Travel Nurse Benefits
you will LOVE

1. Travel nurses get paid more by the hour and can sometimes even get sign on bonuses like I said before. While bonuses are not as abundant these days as they were in years past, they can still be found sometimes.

2. You get to live for free! Yep, that’s right, FREE. Many companies give you the option of either taking a provided apartment from the company, or taking a monthly rent stipend that is TAX-FREE (for a year anyway). The stipend is adequate for a decent apartment where you will be located.

3. Travel Nurses get to see the country. Most hospitals have the option of working three 12-hour shifts per week. During a three month contract, that means you will get about 60 days out of work to explore your new city!

4. You can take a vacation every 3 months if you want to. Travel nursing requires you to move between cities, so you can schedule your contracts so that you have a week or two in between each city. The holidays are a great time to take advantage of this travel nurse benefit.

5. You can move with the weather. Me—I hate cold weather. Travel nursing would let me go to Las Vegas in the winter months and Boston in the summer months so I could have the best of both worlds.

While there are some disadvantages, for those travel nurses that love it, the benefits outweigh the drawbacks. If you are unsure, just remember you can always do one contract to experiment. If you end up hating it, you have only lost 3 short months.

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