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Tag: nursing
Blood Draws & Phone Brawls
A quick guide for nurses to help avoid hemolysis and clotting when drawing blood samples.
Nothing Shocks Me Anymore: Stories from the ER
It’s been 7 years since I graduated nursing school and started on this journey of being an Emergency/Trauma RN and, let me tell you, it hasn’t come with a shortage of insane stories. Over 5 of those years working as an RN have been in the ER which has been almost exclusively in level 1 …
Navigating Through Grief & Loss
“A daughter without her mother is a woman broken. It is a loss that turns to arthritis and settles deep into her bones.” – Kristin Hannah (my mother’s favorite author) My mom was my best friend. Losing her was truly like losing a piece of my soul and I’m still grappling daily to figure out …
Cover Your Tax: A Guide to the Tricky World of Taxes as a Travel Nurse
While travel nursing is a ton of fun, figuring out your tax situation is one of the most important pieces of the puzzle that is sometimes not so fun. There’s a lot of information to learn regarding tax homes, income tax and rules for how long you can stay in one place. KNOW THE RULES …
What is a Compact State?
Check out the 2020 updates on another post: https://thewanderingnurseblog.com/2020-compact-state-update/ (Updated 7/21/2019) Compact states are an EXTREMELY helpful bit of legislation for travel nurses that makes working in certain states very convenient and easy! Unfortunately for people like me [yay, Illinois], not all states are involved in this advantageous agreement. If you live in a non-compact …
Travel Nursing in a Nutshell
So you think you want to start travel nursing? YOU SHOULD!!! Travel nursing offers so many amazing benefits–seeing the country while getting paid a metric shit ton (compared to permanent positions), the rare opportunity to experience SO many different types of management/patients/trauma situations (heart attacks and strokes are pretty run of the mill no matter …