Staffing Agency Exploitation & The Six Figure Travel Nurse with Sarah Gaines
The WoMed
Podcast Nation
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 7 March 2022
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Get all your travel nursing questions answered in today’s jam-packed episode. Career Travel Nurse Sarah Gaines joins your hosts to discuss staffing agency exploitation, nurse pay caps, and the incredible benefits of being a travel nurse. She talks about starting The Six Figure Travel Nurse out of frustration, and how she transitioned to counselling nurses during the pandemic. She reads "the letter" led by Peter Welch and Morgan Griffith to the White House’s COIVD-19 response team, and breaks down the disinformation and assumptions that came from it. She explains that financial fluctuation is more volatile now because of coined, but crisis rates existed before and will exist after the pandemic. Sarah offers advice to nursing students who want to become a travel nurse, and to nurses thinking of making the jump. Plus, she debunks common travel nurse myths. Sarah also highlights the exploitation that has occurred in healthcare during this pandemic, and suggests attention should be on ratios, hospitals, or insurance companies, as opposed to agencies.
To get more from Sarah and learn more about The Six Figure Travel Nurse, follow her on Instagram @sarah_gaines and @travelnursecourse or go to sarahgaines.com
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| 0:12.4 | Okay, we need to talk. |
| 0:14.0 | About what? |
| 0:16.2 | That's not a good. |
| 0:17.2 | No one wants to hear those words. |
| 0:18.7 | We need to talk. |
| 0:20.5 | So, you know how we share, so we share access to the WOMED Instagram page? Okay. And I know that you used to run the WOMED Instagram page before I was part of the equation, which is great and amazing, but you follow, the WOMED follows so many, like, nasty wound and, like, |
| 0:42.2 | pimple popping accounts. I literally only follow Dr. Pimple Popper. Okay, I don't, I, I strongly do not |
| 0:50.8 | believe that because every time, you have look at look at the followers every time i |
| 0:56.0 | open up if you look at the explorer page that's they'll just going to show it because the pimple |
| 1:01.5 | popper videos keep popping up no literally our explorer page and every single time i open up the |
| 1:07.4 | wemad instagram like something shocks my nervous system into a disgusting. |
| 1:12.3 | Like, it's like a disgusting fucking, like there should be a trigger warning. |
| 1:16.5 | Every time I open up the well-med Instagram, it's disgusting. |
| 1:19.3 | It's like, and like I joke that like I'm the worst nurse ever because I don't like. |
| 1:23.8 | There's a lot of things that I don't like about, like, gross things. |
| 1:27.8 | Like, I. |
| 1:28.8 | What's your, what's your, I cannot handle as a nurse? |
| 1:31.6 | And see, this is, this is the problem. |
| 1:33.0 | It's like, I have a few. |
| 1:34.3 | But if I had to pick my top two, I have to pick two because I can't just pick one. |
| 1:39.7 | So my top two would be, like, stage four sacral ulcerscers like where you can see the bone like I can't |
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