March 25, 2024
#Hot Markets

Travel Nurse Market: Texas Jobs are Returning

If you’re looking for a travel nurse market that seems to be emerging quickly from the hiring slowdown that affected most of 2017, consider Texas.

Like hospitals in many other states, facilities in Texas slowed their hiring in the spring of 2017 thanks to uncertainty around the future of the Affordable Care Act. Combine that with an abundance of applicants for fewer positions, and suddenly the Texas market was glutted with nurses but few jobs.

Eventually, with the lack of jobs that glut of nurses eased. Now, recruiters say, with the ACA uncertainty behind us and hospitals hiring again, there are opportunities in Texas and fewer nurses applying for them. So for someone looking to get hired quickly, Texas is a location to consider.

Positions available across the state

These jobs aren’t relegated to just one region of the state. The flu is forcing some hospitals in Amarillo to pay crisis rates to get travelers into positions there. But hospitals in the eastern part of the state, in areas like Longview, are hiring. So are hospitals in central Texas near Austin and down near the coast and Houston.

Hospitals are also looking for a broad range of specialties.

Why Travel to Texas

For the traveler motivated by adventure, Texas is unique. It’s a bit of everything in one state. It has a good mix of both rural and urban settings, often within easy driving distance of each other. So for the traveler who wants to explore the outdoors, with the Piney Woods in the East, Big Bend National Park in the West, and the Gulf Coast in the south, there’s no lack of adventure. But, with four major metropolitan areas, it can also provide the bright lights and cosmopolitan feel if that’s more of your style.

And for the financially motivated, Texas has a cost of living that is regularly ranked in or near the top 10. That means those expenses not covered by stipends are going to cost you less.

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