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Michelle can’t stop traveling. “I’m addicted!” she says with a laugh. She’s traveled for over two years now as a telemetry RN and loves expanding her clinical skills — and horizons — with each assignment. When Michelle first started traveling, she hadn’t yet moved out of her parents’ house. It… Read More
“The farther away in the world, the better” is Rachel’s philosophy. It’s led her around the globe and back again, most recently on a volunteer trip to Africa. A 5-year veteran Aya Healthcare travel nurse who’s seen it all, Rachel calls Africa her happy place. It’s where she found her… Read More
Aya travel nurse Tyler firmly believes, “Traveling isn’t just about leaving what you hate, sometimes you have to leave what you love.” He and his boyfriend, fellow travel nurse Brandon, didn’t find it easy to leave home for the big city. They’ve known each other for more than a decade… Read More
“I love your accent!” is the first thing Megan’s recruiter, Meredith, said to her over the phone. As a travel PICU/CVPICU RN from Louisiana who ventured out with her friend and fellow nurse, Kayla, last year, Megan hears that a lot. It’s one of the perks of seeing new places… Read More
Some families are just cooler than others. In this case, mom is a bad a** traveling OR nurse, grandma wanders worldwide, baby has been to more countries than most adults and dad helps make it all happen. Mom, aka Lauren, started travel nursing in 2017 after looking at her life… Read More
The tranquil shores of Martha’s Vineyard are not the setting you’d expect for an epic battle, but that’s where Aya travel nurse Mike recently won the day. Despite the fact that “tuna fight to the death,” as Mike says, he was victorious, reeling in a 9-pounder. A perk of living… Read More
“I decided to take the plunge” is a phrase you often hear when people describe embarking on a travel nursing journey. While that is figuratively true for many, Aya travel nurse Kevin can say that literally. In just over a year and a half, not only has he booked assignments… Read More
It’s a long road between Oklahoma City and Atlanta, but Aya Healthcare travel nurse Bethany has “90’s jams,” podcasts and a new Christmas album to keep herself entertained along the way. She’s listening to the latter as she rolls across the Alabama border and enters Georgia, her home state. A… Read More
Marshallene’s attitude toward travel nursing, and life, is simple. “I call the shots,” she says. A fierce and funny grandmother of four, Marshallene provided her travel nursing philosophy, among other pearls of wisdom, during a long drive to surprise her granddaughter at a ballet recital. She was happy to make… Read More
Aya travel nurse Michelle’s nickname is “Country Moon” on her Indianapolis cardiac unit. “They can’t get over the fact that I live in the country and my husband’s a farmer,” she says. Despite their affectionate teasing, her coworkers enjoy the bounty of Michelle’s harvest, especially her homemade salsa! Although she’s… Read More
When Claire first heard of travel nursing as a wide-eyed undergrad her first thoughts were, “You can really do that? This is real?” Seven years and many assignments later, Claire now knows that possibilities travel nursing offers are, in fact, very real and very wonderful. She’s wandered all over the… Read More
If a picture is worth a thousand words, then Briana and Henry’s travel nursing story is already an epic on par with anything by Proust (he wrote the longest book according to the people at Guinness. We Googled it.) Briana and Henry, both tele travel nurses with Aya, are two… Read More