This week marks the highest number of nursing jobs reported since the outbreak of COVID-19 earlier this year. Healthcare facilities across the country were forced to furlough or lay off healthcare workers in areas non-related to the virus as a result of the pandemic and the halt of elective surgeries. As states recently reopened,...
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StaffDNA’s Digital Marketplace on Track to Exceed 100,000 Downloads This Year as Demand for New Staffing Model Skyrockets
StaffDNA announces major milestones from the recent launch of its self-service digital marketplace for healthcare careers. Since launching, StaffDNA achieved more than 30,000 app downloads and is on pace to reach 100,000 by the end of the year.StaffDNA offers healthcare professionals unparalleled flexibility and simplicity in finding jobs, building pay packages and submitting through its mobile app....
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Anna Almendrala, KHN.orgWhen an employee told a group of 20-somethings they needed face masks to enter his fast-food restaurant, one woman fired off a stream of expletives. “Isn’t this Orange County?” snapped a man in the group. “We don’t have to wear masks!”The curses came as a shock, but not really a surprise, to...
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Compliance eNLC First-Time Traveler Licensing Traveler Tips
The Benefits Of Traveling With A Nursing Compact License
By Alex McCoy, Contributing Writer, Owner of Fit Travel Life I was unknowingly blessed as a new travel nurse because I chose to start traveling in my home state. I was testing the waters and wasn’t quite ready to venture out while my husband finished grad school.I did go through the process of applying...
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By Lauren Weber and Laura Ungar and Michelle R. Smith, The Associated Press and Hannah Recht and Anna Maria Barry-JesterThe U.S. public health system has been starved for decades and lacks the resources to confront the worst health crisis in a century.Marshaled against a virus that has sickened at least 2.6 million in the...
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This Wednesday, July 1, 2020, Indiana officially joins 33 other states in implementing the Nurse Licensure Compact (NLC), making it easier for healthcare travelers with compact licenses to work across state lines without having to get separate licenses.Registered nurses and licensed practical/vocational nurses whose primary state of residence is in an NLC state and...
