With great pay, unique opportunities to learn, and a whole lot of other benefits too, traveling has a lot to offer. But with so many agencies to choose from, how can you find the best travel nurse agency to meet your specific goals and preferences? Here’s what you need to know.
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Checklist: Choosing the Best Travel Nursing Agency
Always an essential part of healthcare, travel nursing jobs surged since the pandemic. Today, demand is still high, and traveling has become a way of life for many nurses. As a result, many travel nursing agencies and jobsites have sprung up to fill that need. Make sure you choose the right one by checking whether they meet a few important considerations.
✅ Exclusive Opportunities with Leading Employers
Why work with an agency that offers the same jobs you can find anywhere else? Partnering with an exclusive provider for a major healthcare employer means you’ll get access to jobs you won’t find anywhere else. And because you're cutting out third parties, those exclusive jobs may offer higher pay, too.
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✅ Early, Priority Access to Top Jobs
Most travel nursing agencies and online job boards show you the positions that have already been on the market for days, if not weeks. With an exclusive job source, you’ll be first in line, seeing new assignments before anyone else.
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✅ A Direct-Hire Jobsite that’s Easy to Use
Your time is precious. Make sure your agency respects that by making it easy to browse available jobs through a travel nursing jobsite that’s fast, functional, and easy to use. If you see a travel job you like, you have your resume ready, it should take you just a few seconds to apply.
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✅ App-based Job Searches
The best travel nursing agencies let you skip the long, complicated job search process, letting you browse leading travel jobs and apply instantly with an up-to-date mobile app. You should be able to book and confirm shifts, set your schedule preferences, search hundreds of new jobs and more, all from your phone.
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✅ Flexible Schedules
Once a job perk enjoyed by only a few, flexible scheduling is quickly becoming a core benefit in many healthcare jobs. Make sure you have the time you need for family, school, or whatever else life requires by choosing an agency that lets you choose what type of shift you want to work — for instance, night shifts instead of day shifts, staggered shifts, or 12-hour shifts.
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✅ Full Transparency into Every Detail of Every Job
How much is your travel stipend each week? Where exactly is the job located? What shifts can you choose from? Whether you’re browsing a jobsite or app or talking with a recruiter, the jobs offered by the best travel nurse agencies should be fully transparent about every detail, especially pay.
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✅ Hundreds of Opportunities to Choose from
Don’t limit yourself! Some travel nurses work as many as four assignments each year, choosing a new destination each time. And the best travel nurse agencies can accommodate that lifestyle by offering hundreds of opportunities each month — not just for travel jobs, but per diem and local contract, too.
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✅ Jobs in America’s Hottest Destinations
Dreaming of the Florida beaches or Colorado mountains? How about that Nashville nightlife? Whether you’re balancing out a rural assignment with a little excitement or taking advantages of a lifelong dream to live it up in places like Austin or Miami, make sure your partner has jobs in the places you want to work.
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✅ Travel & Nursing Career Expertise
Traveling offers lots of opportunities in personal and professional terms, but it comes with its challenges. Make sure the partner you can trust not only with great job opportunities but also guidance into building a better career.
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Navigate the Travel Lifestyle with HealthTrust
At HealthTrust, we’re proud to tick all of these boxes and more! As one of America’s leading travel nurse agencies with an exclusive contract with one of the nation’s top employers, we have the opportunities you need to take your career to new places. Search our travel nursing jobsite now to see what’s available!
