The Truth About Travel Nursing

The Truth About Travel Nursing

The Truth About Travel Nursing Podcast provides honest, straightforward information about all things related to travel healthcare including: travel nursing pay, contract negotiation, travel nursing companies and recruiters, travel nurse housing options, paperwork management and much more. Our goal is to help travel nurses and healthcare professional see through the marketing messages and slick sales talk so they can get to their desired destinations at the best possible compensation.

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July 23, 2025 27 mins

In this episode of The Truth About Travel Nursing Podcast, host Kyle Schmidt breaks down the recent changes to the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) and what they mean for travel nurses. With aggressive new rules from the FCC taking effect in 2025, travel healthcare professionals may finally have tools to combat the...

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We identify the scams and traps travel nurses need to watch out for they're using job boards.

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We identify the 3 different types of job boards for travel nurses and discuss how they work and the advantages and disadvantages of each.

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I discuss the challenges that travel nursing companies have with managing their job data and how they overcome those challenges. I also discuss how many of the complaints about travel nursing job postings are directly related to the challenges. 

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November 14, 2018 36 mins

Travel Nurse Takeover is a social media service available on Instagram and Snap. Travel Healthcare Professionals "takeover" the accounts for a brief period to share their adventures. It's a great way to discover information on new locations, meet fellow travelers and get inspired. Our guest is Ryan Sendow, RN. He is a travel nurse and the owner and operator of Travel Nurse Takeover.

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It's difficult to eat right and exercise on the road! Our guest, travel nurse Alex McCoy, has some amazing tips to helps. Alex is the founder of FitTravelLife.net and the Admin of the FitTravelLife Facebook group. Check them out! 

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September 15, 2017 42 mins

The travel nursing job market is down in 2017. We discuss the possible reasons for the slowdown in this episode.

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As with most things in travel nursing, guaranteed hours aren't cut and dry. We discuss this topic in detail so you're not caught off guard.

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In this episode, we discuss why so many travel nursing paycheck errors occur, how you can avoid them and how you can resolve them when they happen.

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We look at several quotes for the annual pay of travel nurses from around the internet and discuss the unique circumstances they're missing. We also breakdown several quotes of our own!

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We discuss how the GSA Tables relate to travel nursing in this episode of The Truth About Travel Nursing Podcast.

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We discuss some of the most common myths and fibs in travel nursing so travel nurses can approach the issues with confidence.

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We discuss how to write an exceptional travel nursing resume. We also discuss some considerations for listing your travel nursing experience on your nursing resume for permanent jobs.

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Applicant Tracking Systems play a central role for travel nursing agencies. We discuss what travel nurses ought to know about them in this podcast.

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We discuss some of the interesting methods that agencies and recruiters use to find travel nursing candidates.

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Trust is the key component in relationships between travel nurses and their agencies and recruiters. We discuss 14 things that recruiters and agencies do that tend to compromise the trust of travel nurses.

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We discuss 7 common travel nursing pay variables and provide some helpful considerations for each in this podcast episode.

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We discuss the different types of high paying travel nursing jobs and provide tips to increase your chances of landing them.

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We discuss issues pertaining to travel nursing jobs including orientation and various problems that may arise. We also provide some tips for success!

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