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Travel Nurse Motto
It was my first travel contract during the height of the pandemic. I was working a high-paying contract with a company providing crucial staffing to hospitals all over Texas. For travel nurses, it is known that we are hired to fill a need. The hospitals don’t hire us to fix systemic problems or want our…
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Absolute Negligence
The RaDonda Vaught Trial I read through articles about RaDonda Vaught. They don’t reconcile with the outrage I’ve seen on social media: nurses are concerned that this could happen to them, too. “We’re all capable of making mistakes,” they say. “Are they going to start throwing us all in jail?” they ask. “Where do they…
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Listen to Nurses
I wear cowboy boots to work. 12 hours a day. Three or four shifts a week. No, they don’t hurt my feet; they actually feel great! But, my socks don’t come up high enough, and the top of the boots rub on my calves. I’ve been wearing boots to work for years, and I’ve never…
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Travel Nurses Aren’t Overpaid
We all deserve more. Traveling nurses work as contractors for hospitals. As it has been reported recently in the news, they make more money than those nurses who work directly for hospitals. This angers some people. It’s only reasonable that full-time staff nurses aren’t happy about working next to temporary nurses who perform the same duties…
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51 Rules for Life
A number of years ago, I started curating a list of “life rules” which I found important. I titled it “How to Win at Life.” It started off as just a note on my phone, but it has grown into something more. I am not pretending to be a perfect person and I can’t say…
