Travel nursing checklist item #15 - Being submitted to a hospital

Every travel nursing company’s process is a little different, but for the most part the next step in the Ultimate Travel Nursing Checklist is being submitted by your recruiter. There is not a lot of for you as a travel nurse to do at this point. By this stage if you followed all of the guidelines laid out in the first 14 steps of the Ultimate Travel Nursing Checklist you should have already explained where you want you to go, any travel nurse housing, pay, unit and assignment requirements and preferences you have and your travel nursing recruiter should have a good sense of what you need next in your travel nursing career and a good understanding of your nursing skills. It is this part of the process that is out of your hands that makes the prep work so important.
Now, travel nursing companies may differ here in how this process works. Some recruiters may also be contacting the hospital on your behalf while other companies may have these roles split out between two different departments. There are advantages to both systems, which I will be writing about in a later post, but basically one set up will be able to make the claim that the person selling you to the hospital will know you better, while the other will be able to promise that they will know the hospital better and their needs better and thus give you and the hospital a perfect fit. So if this difference is going to be important to you then you will want to find out how the travel nursing agency you choose to travel handles this.
Some companies are going to be very selective in where they submit you, while others may be more scatter-shot in where your profile is submitted. Good travel nurse companies will be the selective ones, I have heard of unhappy traveling nurses who have been called by hospitals they didn’t even know they were being submitted to in locations or hospital environments that they are not particularly interested in working in. Find out up front how the travel nursing company you are looking at handles this process, so you don’t have any surprises.
What you really need to do at this point in the travel nursing process is really just to prepare for the next step, the travel nursing interview.
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Travel nursing checklist item #15 - Being submitted to a hospital

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