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Make Your Mental Health A Priority

May is Mental Health Awareness Month, and in honor of this observance, it’s important to recognize the travel nurses, full-time nurses, and all allied health professionals who compassionately care for their patients, at times putting their own mental health and wellness on hold to deliver timely and effective patient care. The stressors inherent in jobs in the medical field are constant. Patients and families rely heavily on nurses and allied health professionals in hospitals and all manner of clinical settings to provide medication delivery, all-encompassing physical care, case status, and at times, urgent, life-saving aid. To all of these medical professionals, it’s important to seek treatment immediately if you begin to experience mental health issues. There are many resources you can turn to for help. Mental Health America, for example, provides information and tools to live a mentally healthy life, access to a screening tool to check for depression and anxiety symptoms, and avenues for seeking professional help if needed. In line with generating awareness and new resources for nurses in need, a nurse peer support project called “Don’t Clock Out” is in development in honor of traveling nurse Michael Odell, who died by suicide at the age of 27 in January 2022. The project goal is to build a digital platform to offer evidence-based peer support to nurses experiencing mental health crises. Learn about Michael’s story and this special group of nurses who are working to honor him and save lives. If you or someone you know is experiencing a mental health crisis, go to the nearest emergency room or call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1.800.273.8255. You can also text the word “home” to 741741.

LOCK-IN OR EXTEND ASSIGNMENTS NOW

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Though still high in many areas, nationwide trends are showing Crisis Rates beginning to decrease. With this in mind, travel nurse and allied health professionals are encouraged to extend current assignments, as next jobs will likely be at lower rates. In addition to locking in a higher pay package rate, there are a number of other benefits to extending a current contract: Extension means maintaining a level of familiarity you already have with staff and processes. Administrators are always happy to stick with a known variable. It’s often easier to request and receive time off as needed on a current assignment. You don’t have to go through compliance. Unable to extend your current assignment? Rather than holding out for higher pay packages, we’d recommend taking on another assignment as soon as possible in case pay packages decline. If rates go back up, your agency can usually ask for an increase in pay. Best wishes on your assignments as you approach the end of the year and move on into 2022! Be sure to check back regularly for updated travel nursing and allied health job market updates.

Securing the Crisis Rate Opportunity You Want

COVID-19 cases continue to rise across the country, with the Delta variant accounting for an estimated 93.4% of Covid-19 cases in the US. Given the surge, healthcare job needs in many states are reaching levels surpassing the height of last winter. As a Travel Nurse or Allied Health professional, you’ve likely guessed one thing that this means—the return of Crisis Rates. As you know, these jobs can be very alluring, as a Crisis Rate (aka Rapid Response Rate) is often as much as 100% higher than the normal travel nurse rate for the same position at the same hospital. If Crisis Rate opportunities appeal to you, here are some recommendations to consider: Tips for Getting in on Rapid Response Rates Time is of the essence—as in the second a job is open. When you see a job post, click-thru right away to verify if it’s still available. Crisis Rate ads floating around social media may have already expired, as competition is fierce and positions are frequently filled within minutes of initial posting. So don’t hesitate. Be sure your submission profile is up-to-date and compliance docs are uploaded with your agency ahead of time or ready to submit at a moment’s notice. Many facilities are not interviewing and are offering jobs based solely on a profile, so you need to be okay with that. Make sure you have the appropriate license, whether a compact license (for a greater number of opportunities) or a state license for where you’re interested in traveling. The more flexible you can be on what you require in a contract, the better. Anyone asking for PTO or a specific schedule or shift will likely be the last picked. Talk to your recruiter or agency care team member to alert them of your interest if any opportunities arise. This way, you can be given first consideration for jobs with the rates you’re targeting. Good luck and safe travels!

2021 Q2 Outlook for Healthcare Travel Jobs

April is another popular month for healthcare travelers to start a new assignment. If you took a new healthcare assignment in January, chances are that you’re now on the hunt for a new one or considering an extension. Dealing with the global pandemic for more than a year has rocked the healthcare travel market with demand pay rates changing almost weekly. Here are job trends we’re seeing in the travel nursing and travel allied sectors as we enter the second quarter of 2021. Learn up-to-date insights and tips to navigating this ever-changing job market. Hospitals Dropping Pay Rates to Pre-COVID Levels COVID-19 cases have decreased as more people are vaccinated and continue to follow CDC guidelines, which means hospitalizations are down. For example Parkland Hospital, which was once the largest virus treatment centers in the Dallas-Fort Worth area has now closed all six of its COVID-19 wards after seeing a dramatic drop in active cases from an average of 200 during the peak to 20 today. That’s good news! But in turn, hospitals are no longer needing healthcare travelers at the levels they did during the peak of the pandemic. Hospitals have decreased the number of travelers they need, dropping the number of job openings nationwide to approximately 8,000. The average bill rates for the jobs hospitals do have posted also decreasing back down closer to rates before the pandemic began. A trend being discussed in several Travel Nursing Facebook Groups is the possibility of hospitals dropping pay rates of an active travel assignment before it ends, and cutting hours worked or canceling an assignment all together because lower census from less COVID patients. More Competition = Be More Flexible More healthcare professionals left their permanent positions to travel last year due to the pandemic’s high demand and high crisis pay packages. Now that the demand for nursing and allied health jobs is stabilizing, there’s still a higher number of travelers looking for new assignments resulting in more competition for desired jobs. It’s typical for the hospital to receive more than 20 submittals to a single job within the first hour of posting their need. To handle higher competition for jobs, travelers should be try to more flexible for what they’re looking for. Whether it’s being more open to more locations and compromising special scheduling or shift requests, the more flexible a traveler can be, the more likely you can find a new assignment faster. Does your agency know which hospitals are actually moving? As patient census continues to drop in select areas, some hospitals are scaling back on their need for travelers all together. As the facilities are trying to navigate the changing needs and demand, a travel assignment they posted last week may not be needed any more the following week. Tip: Make sure you’re working with a trusted, experienced healthcare staffing company that has regular contact with their hospital clients and can tell you if a position you submit for is actively interviewing and booking travelers or not. Beware of stagnant job boards or advertisements promoting fake jobs that are no longer open. What’s the possibility of another job peak and crisis needs? As states are scaling back restrictions and more people are traveling and going back to life as “normal,” the U.S. reported a 12 percent increase of average new daily cases as of Sunday, March 28. “What we’re likely seeing is because of things like spring break and pulling back on the mitigation methods that you’ve seen. Now, several states have done that,” Fauci told CBS’ “Face the Nation” on Sunday. With more people getting vaccinating, including healthcare professionals and elderly or at-risk people, it’s not likely that hospitalizations will peak as they did last year and in January 2021. But only time will tell. Check back regularly for updated travel nursing and allied health job market news!