October is National Physical Therapy month. Here at FlexAllied, we’d like to take a moment to recognize the fantastic physical therapists that we employ and place in jobs around the country.
The purpose of National Physical Therapy month is to help educate the public about the benefits that come with physical therapy treatment. Physical therapists help restore motion, help patients stay healthy and strong, and in many cases, use PT treatment to allow patients to avoid surgery and long-term use of prescription medications.
Don’t leave your insurance coverage to chance.
You’ve gone through a lot of hard work, schooling, and expense to create a nursing career that can bring significant long-term financial and personal rewards. Unfortunately, if you lack sufficient insurance coverage you’re putting your career at risk. Lost wages, hearings, and defense costs can strip you of everything you’ve worked for. That’s why it is critical for nurses to have adequate professional and general liability coverage.
If you are a speech therapist, physical therapist, or occupational therapist, you have flexible options when it comes to career choices. You can choose to work in a traditional clinical or hospital setting, with a set schedule, or, you can work as a travel therapist.
If you would like to experience living in new locations, maintain a flexible schedule, and earn a solid living, a travel therapist position is a great way to work—and advance your career—while giving you a unique travel experience.
Pick up any self-help book or magazine and you’ll find articles and advise about creating a “work-life balance.” Finding a healthy balance between working life and life outside work has become increasingly difficult in a highly connected and materialistic society. Nurses are no exception.
Many healthcare
and nurse staffing agencies
offer what’s called daily pay. It means you get a separate pay
check or direct deposit for each day you work. You work, submit a
timesheet, and your staffing agency cuts you a check. Sounds pretty
nice, doesn’t it? The benefit of daily pay is clear: You get paid
faster than if you wait for the standard weekly
or monthly paycheck. The immediate gratification is hard to pass up.
A career in allied healthcare today can be one of the most fulfilling, flexible vocations you can choose. The nationwide demand for qualified healthcare professionals, including nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists, and speech therapists, gives you choices in where and how you work. One of the best ways to take advantage of the flexibility a healthcare career can offer is to work with a therapist staffing agency, which provides placement in a variety of settings and in flexible time blocks.
When you sign up to work with a nursing staffing company, the time will come when you’ll be invited to a nursing contract interview for a potential new client placement. Interviews can be intimidating, but if you know what to expect and get yourself ready, you’ll be able to ace the interview and land the nursing contract position you’re after.
To help you be prepared and professional for your interview, we’ve compiled four tips to go through so that you enter your interview confident and ready to take on your next assignment.
The buzz around our industry these days is certainly centered on the impacts of U.S. Health Care Reform on nurses and hospitals. As a leading nurse staffing agency, we consider it our duty to understand, anticipate, and serve the needs of hospitals and nurses, alike.
As travel nursing agencies compete to become your agency of choice, the lure of free housing, free benefits, and other attractive bonuses weigh heavily in a nurse’s decision to choose one agency over another. The question is, is “free” really free? When you look closely you’ll find that the answer is, not exactly. Understanding how “free” works can help you compare apples to apples when it comes to choosing the right travel nursing agency.
Agency nurses’ pay is more often than not higher than staff nurses in the same positions. Agency nurses do not have to deal with as much of the hospital politics or some of the minimum hour and holiday requirements as staff nurses. But if you let these become your main motivation to be an agency RN and forget the real reason you became a nurse in the first place, which is caring for people in the communities you serve, you may come to resent not only agency nursing, but your nursing career in general.
