Traveling nurses are on duty.

The opportunities are endless for a travel nurse when it comes to choosing their next career opportunity.

You choose the location, decide whether you want to accept the contracts, and more.

According to Nursejournal.com, travel nurses can earn between $3,000 and $7,000 per week. Average work weeks are 36 hours.

If you want to become a travel nurse, these are the requirements you should have along with your degree or certification.

“Almost every travel nurse started as a permanent, full-time employee in a hospital. And the reason is, you know, hospitals, when it comes to travel, nurses want the candidate to have at least one year and often, two years of experience in their specialty. Before starting work. And that’s because they’re coming in temporarily,” said Kyle Schmidt, founder of Blue Pipes.

Blue Pipes is a professional networking platform dedicated to the healthcare industry. These traveling assignments take you around the world. When providing service and care to patients in your trained specialty. Travel assignments can range from a minimum of 4 weeks to 26 weeks or more.

There are many reasons why nurses choose to take their careers on the road, and Schmidt shares some top recommendations.

“People can do it because it allows them to go and work in different places around the country and learn a lot of different procedures, processes, chart systems. If they’re traveling nurses, it’s always changing for them because they’re moving from facility to facility and learning different things and being exposed to different patients, etc.

When these nurses accept jobs, they know what kind of environment they will be working in, and sometimes those tasks and environments can change.

“Especially right now, traditionally there’s a lot of cancellations; under normal circumstances there’s a very low contract cancellation rate. Because things are so fluid and moving so fast, inventory is going up, and it’s going back, etc. Contracts are being canceled at a much higher rate than normal. That’s This often means that the travel healthcare professional and the agency are left out in the cold.The travel healthcare professional must scramble to find their next job.

Travel nurses are essential to hospital systems and can make a difference, one job at a time!