"HittingThe Road – A Guide to Travel Nursing" by Shalon Kearney
Hitting The Road is an up-to-date, brief resource and new career guide. It is written in an easily readable format by a veteran of the travel nursing industry. It combines a decade of experience with practical and comprehensive information. This book focuses on real-world issues and includes exercises for self-assessment as well as insights and tips. It has listings for 70 of the health care staffing agencies and also goes into finance and tax strategies.
"Fast Facts for the Travel Nurse: Travel Nursing in a Nutshell" by Michele Angell Landrum, ADN,RN,CCRN
This book was written by a seasoned practitioner and includes tips on how to get into the field of travel nursing, how to negotiate contracts, increase pay, improve benefits and enhance travel assignments. "Fast Facts" covers a wide variety of information to help professional nurses pursue their adventures as a traveling nurse. It is intended to be a guide to provide the reader with the ability to access needed information quickly, including tips on staffing companies, how to interview, how to be properly prepared when you arrive and so much more. It is an easy-to-read book and will give you the information necessary to start on an interesting and rewarding new career as a healthcare traveler.
"The Truth About Travel Nursing: Know More than your Recruiter as a Travel Healthcare Professional" by Kyle Schmidt
This book will give the reader an honest and straight forward insider perspective into the world of healthcare traveling. It will give you a fundamental understanding of the industry and help you see through the common sales tactics and marketing messages. After you read this book you will be able to start your new career with the plan and the confidence to achieve your goals. Most of the information available in this book can also be found on the author's blog at .
"Highway Hypodermics Travel Nursing 2015" by Epstein Larue and Joseph C Smith
Amazon rates this book #1 for information on travel nursing. This book will help you find what you are looking for whether you are a seasoned traveler, or just thinking about starting your adventures as a travel nurse. The author has been providing information to traveling nurses, nursing company execs and recruiters since 2003 with the Highway Hypodermics series. It includes Epstein's award winning writing from the years past and adds input from co-author Joseph Smith on travel tax issues.
"Travel Nurse Insights: A Window to the World of Travel Nursing" by Barry and Donna Padgett
The Padgetts have been traveling for almost eight years all across the country. They have produced a concise manual based on their experiences with other travelers, agencies and facilities. It is an "insight" into what it takes to maintain a successful travel career.
Of course there are many other books out there as well. All of these have received great reviews and from what I can see, any one of them will provide you with plenty of great information.
Mary Crawford, HealthCare Employment Network
