After working a couple of years in an intensive care unit, Alex Stow signed up to be a travel nurse, tripling his pay to about $95 an hour by agreeing to help short-staffed hospitals around the country for 13 weeks at a time. wapo.st/3IsiSSE
Stow, 25, is buying a truck and a camper and preparing to hit the road.
He’ll work where he wants and take time off to see the country between nursing assignments. wapo.st/3IsiSSE
He’ll work where he wants and take time off to see the country between nursing assignments. wapo.st/3IsiSSE
If 2020 was the year travel nursing took off, with 35 percent growth over the pre-pandemic year of 2019, this year propelled it to new heights, with an additional 40 percent growth expected, according to an independent analyst of the health-care workforce. wapo.st/3lAaPJR
The continued pandemic; an aging, burned out workforce; the return of services that were shut down last year; and a shortage of foreign recruits and nursing students have made travel nursing one of the most critical and sensitive issues in health care. wapo.st/3IonXvi
Hospitals accuse the travel companies of price gouging. The companies say they are responding to the laws of supply and demand.
Nurses’ unions say there would be no shortage if nurses were adequately paid and afforded better working conditions. wapo.st/3IsiSSE
Nurses’ unions say there would be no shortage if nurses were adequately paid and afforded better working conditions. wapo.st/3IsiSSE
The nation’s largest nurses union maintains that hospitals are suffering the consequences of the just-in-time staffing model they created to cut costs by keeping the number of full-time staff nurses as small as possible. wapo.st/3IsiSSE
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