What is the easiest way to find a groove as a travel nurse? Well, there are a number of ways, but universally the easiest way to keep hustling is to renew an existing contract. Now, this doesn’t always fall into place with every assignment and not all facilities, teams, or areas of expertise are made equal. However, if you can find a groove with an assignment you still enjoy (in a city you would like to continue living in) a contract extension may be the answer for you!

Burnout may be far off or just around the corner. The pressures of a specific season in your career can drive you to difficult breaking points. Patient ratios, work/life balance, and shortages on staff can bring all of these stressors to the surface even faster.

2022 been a big year for Spire. Looking back is always helpful to see where we started and how far we’ve come in, what seems like, 12 short months. Oftentimes, placing everything that has happened throughout the course of a calendar year into a single blog post is difficult — mainly because so much has happened in the Travel Nursing industry, within our own company, and more!

Spire’s growth continues with more recognition within our industry! We are proud to announce that we made SIA’s list of the largest travel nurse staffing firms in the country.

We’d like you to meet Jade — A Travel Nurse based in Amarillo, TX. Her career as a travel nurse started over 12 years ago. Not during the pandemic. Not recently. She has been at this for some time and she’s seen more of our country in different areas of focus than most have seen in longer healthcare careers.

We work with incredible people - Labor and Delivery Nurses, ER Nurses, Allied Techs, Respiratory Therapists, and the list goes on and on. Healthcare professionals who have seen different parts of the country through different facilities and hospitals — and all have incredible stories of how their careers have taken shape.

We’d like you to meet Natalie. She started her career as a staff ER Nurse in New Jersey.

Working with a recruiter at Spire is different than you’d expect. Sure — you’d expect us to say something specifically focused on how unique we are, but rather than explain our values we wanted to share a conversation between one of our recruiters, Matt, and Amber Wilson — a travel nurse.

Amber had started as a MED-SURG nurse and had tried traveling a bit before she started working with Spire. After her contract was canceled, she got in touch with Matt, one of our Recruiters, and ended getting into an assignment at Northside in Georgia.

When you’re moving around during your day, changing assignments, cities, and more, your rhythm and “home” life are somewhat disrupted. For most of us, the first thing to take a hit is our eating habits. We substitute quick calories in lieu of healthy, nutrient-dense foods to save time — or the idea of convenience.

So, how do you prepare for the day (and life) ahead? How do you eat healthier foods and not use all of your time preparing meals? It all comes down to commitment and diligence, but you can do it! As a healthcare traveler, you have to take care of yourself so you can care for others — and Spire wants the best for you.