Healthcare Staffing & Career Blog

Travel healthcare, staffing and career insights from Aureus Medical.

June 4, 2014

Are You an Organ Donor?

As a healthcare professional, you have entered into a career where you dedicate your time to helping others. Every day, you are surrounded by people who need care and assistance in getting their health or the health of their loved ones back on track. Have you gone above and beyond to help these patients?

June 2, 2014

Medical staffing professionals develop bipolar monitoring app

There will soon be a new app for travel nursing professionals to get comfortable with in the near future.

May 30, 2014

Should barefoot running be used on travel PT jobs?

Those on travel physical therapy assignments may be asked whether or not running barefoot is OK.

Travel nurse: Environment as influential as genes in autism

Those on travel nursing assignments may have heard that genetic factors were the central reason behind children developing autism, but a new study suggests that genes are only half of the equation.

May 29, 2014

Medical staffing: Breast cancer more life-threatening in obese women

Breast cancer is the most common cancer among American women, as healthcare staffing professionals are likely well aware.

Medical staffing personnel: Fewer Americans think e-cigarettes are safe

As healthcare staffing professionals may have heard, e-cigarettes are rising in popularity.

May 28, 2014

Expanding ‘Who You Know’

Many of you are graduating and preparing to take your NCLEX to fulfill your goal of becoming an RN. Others of you are wrapping up the semester with more to come in pursuit of that goal. You’re learning a whole lot in the world of ‘what you know’, but are you prepared for the ‘who you know?’ In a very competitive market for new grad RNs, networking can play a key role in your ability to get your foot in the door and land that first RN position.

Traveling as a New Grad

As many of you are beginning your job search, I wanted to share my experience as a first time traveler and newly graduated Occupational Therapist. My journey to become a traveler technically started before I even graduated. I went to multiple job fairs and at first it was overwhelming because there were so many traveling companies to choose from – I wasn’t even sure where to begin.