In House Travel Nursing

Hospitals across the country are offering internal travel nurse programs.  Did you know that?

What is great about this is that you can make the money of a travel nurse while the healthcare facility does not have to pay the middleman agency for the nurses.  Plus, if you love the job, you can possibly get hired full time.

To me, this is a great solution allowing nurses to make more money without having to go through the agency as the go-between.

Nevertheless, I still have a problem about committed regular staff nurses who are making less than the travel nurse who just walk in to contribute their skills for a short period of time.

I have noticed instances of some nursing units that treat the travel nurses poorly who arrive to help in their units.  One would think they would be grateful for the extra hands.

Nurses need to stick together, to treat each other with the respect and dignity they deserve, no matter what their respective statuses might be.  We do this for our patients, why not for each other?