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Triage, Trauma and Tattoos

“How can you be afraid of shots?? You have tattoos!” -People who don’t have tattoos As your resident tatted up nurse, it is pretty obvious that I love body ink. Clearly, I’m not alone. According to several sources floating around, anywhere from 20-40% of Americans are rocking tattoos today. With the stigma of tattoos disappearing …

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Nursing

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 …

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Nursing

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 …

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