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September 8, 2021

The United States continues to be the global hot spot for COVID, with a total of 40,085,811 cases since the start of the pandemic. Overall, some hot spots, like Texas and Florida, have stabilized, but other states, like Idaho, are struggling, especially in rural areas where vaccination rates remain low. Idaho announced they will allow […]

August 30, 2021

Imagine spending an entire 13 weeks taking care of ETOH withdrawal patients and then having to float to the telemetry unit for half of your shifts. As an ICU nurse, this is absolutely your worst nightmare. So are nightmare scenarios like this what you can expect as a travel nurse? Below, we’ll explain why this […]

August 27, 2021

You may have encountered a travel nurse at work, or if you are like me, have wanted to be a travel nurse since before you even entered nursing school. You have also probably heard some horror stories and common misconceptions that go along with the travel nursing profession that have made you think twice about […]

August 25, 2021

As fall approaches, the Delta variant is showing no signs of slowing down. According to the New York Times, the death rate from COVID-19 has nearly doubled since the beginning of August, to a rate of around 800 per day. Overall cases are on the rise too, especially in the south, where vaccination levels are […]

August 11, 2021

The Delta variant is driving another wave of COVID-19, especially in the South. The New York Times COVID case map shows that for the first time since February, the US is averaging more than 100,000 cases of COVID every day again. Hospitalizations, deaths and infection rates have all increased in the past several weeks. With […]