Author: Katie Dixon
Katie Dixon is Triage's Communications Manager with three years of experience in the healthcare staffing industry. She spends hours dedicated to reading, researching and writing, offering her a deep understanding of the industry's trends and topics that healthcare travelers care about.
You’ve seen the Instagram photos. Beach towns. Mountains. Nurses and allied health pros with champagne at sunset, living their best life, getting paid for it. And yeah, that happens. But the real reason smart nurses and allied health pros go travel isn’t the scenery. It’s control. You Actually Choose Your Environment A staff healthcare pro […]
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You wanted a new travel assignment. You got a new charting system, a supply room that apparently requires a treasure map and coworkers whose names you’re still trying very hard not to mix up. Welcome to week one. Starting a new travel nursing assignment can be awkward, even when you’ve been traveling for years. You’re […]
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Some recruiter-traveler relationships last for an assignment. Others apparently end with the recruiter standing next to you at your wedding. That’s how things played out for Triage recruiter Dierdre and former traveler Rachel. The two originally connected in January 2020, then finally met face-to-face that December when Rachel was driving from New Hampshire to Las […]
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Fall brings in a lot of fun with the kids going back to school, leaves changing, cooler weather, pumpkin patches, the start of college football season and more. With all the fun autumn activities also comes the start of the dreaded cold and flu season. There is nothing worse than being sick when you are […]
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Are you a new nurse interested in travel nursing jobs in labor and delivery? Or are you a current nurse who’s interested in expanding your skills and learning more about labor and delivery travel nurse hiring? Like all specialties, you’ll need at least two years of recent experience as an L&D nurse before you can […]
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You landed the assignment. Now you just need somewhere to live for the next 13 weeks that doesn’t eat your entire paycheck. While that’s the goal, it’s not always so easy. Housing costs have risen throughout the country. Housing is easily the biggest expense you’ll deal with on assignment, especially if you’re looking for a […]
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Team Triage, we’re excited to share that we’re launching a new program to help you find places to stay, rental cars and flights. We’ve partnered with Engine, a travel platform that’s exclusively available to Triage travelers. Signing up is simple. Visit https://engine.com/perkpartners/triage-staffing and enter your email address. You’ll get a code to verify your account […]
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We love hearing when a Triage traveler makes an impression. Not because we need another excuse to brag about our people (although we’ll take it), but because good feedback usually means someone is doing the part of the job that matters most: taking great care of patients. Recently, Jennifer and Bryce gave us two pretty […]
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Nobody got into travel healthcare because they love filling out forms. You didn’t spend years earning your license and certifications just so you could re-type them into a job board for the tenth time. So we built something to fix that. Drag. Drop. Done. Upload your resume, your current certifications, or any other profile docs, […]
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Congrats! You’ve accepted a travel assignment, and in no time you’ll be mingling with new coworkers and exploring a new city you’ll call home for awhile. During this exciting time the to-do list can start to feel like climbing Mount Everest, so we’ve compiled a helpful checklist to ensure that you can tie up any […]
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