| In the United States these days, travel nursing is | | | | end of their life in their own home, rather than in |
| rapidly emerging as the new norm. In the past it | | | | a hospital. |
| was usually private individuals with enough money | | | | |
| to afford it who employed travel nurses, and | | | | Travel nursing is also provided through |
| they were also used in some rural areas if there | | | | government care and county health care. Travel |
| was no doctor. Nowadays more and more | | | | nurses are sometimes employed by the county |
| medical clinics across the country are recognizing | | | | and sent out to care for elderly, perhaps |
| the value of travel nursing. | | | | bedridden, patients, to ensure that these patients |
| | | | | are receiving all necessary care. By receiving |
| Travel nursing these days provides lots of | | | | nursing care at home, including the administering |
| opportunity for nurses to work in a variety of | | | | of medications, these patients can be kept |
| capacities and environments. For example, they | | | | comfortable and not need to see a doctor. |
| can work at a clinic or hospital, and there are also | | | | |
| pharmacy clinics where patients can be seen and | | | | Another place where travel nursing is useful is in |
| medicines dispensed, according to the pharmacy | | | | clinics which operate from pharmacies. Many |
| license. There is always a supervising doctor | | | | United States pharmacies are now realizing the |
| working with the nurse, however the doctor will | | | | need for clinics, and employ travel nurses who are |
| not necessarily be on the premises. The patients | | | | able to see patients with minor ailments. For |
| who receive treatment from travel nurses are | | | | example, often their patients are children with an |
| generally in need of medical care but not | | | | infection which requires treatment by antibiotics. |
| necessarily needing treatment from a doctor. | | | | There are many sides to travel nursing, which |
| | | | | provides a great benefit in that travel nurses |
| Travel nursing can be of great benefit when it | | | | provide medical care to patients who otherwise |
| comes to hospitals, many of which are | | | | might not have access to health care. There are |
| overcrowded. This means that patients cannot | | | | lots of different settings providing employment |
| stay there for any longer than is absolutely | | | | opportunities to people interested in travel nursing. |
| necessary. Thus nursing care in the home, at the | | | | Registered nurses can work as travel nurses in |
| hands of travel nurses who can visit their patients | | | | hospitals or clinics, or for government agencies |
| and treat them there, for example changing | | | | and counties, supplying patients with health care |
| dressings or helping them to become mobile | | | | or medical assistance where a doctor is not |
| following an operation, can be of great benefit to | | | | required, thus freeing up doctors' time so that |
| the hospital system. When it comes to hospice | | | | they are able to spend more time caring for |
| patients, which means patients who are terminally | | | | patients who are in need of a more serious level |
| ill, travel nurses can administer pain relief and | | | | of medical attention. |
| make it possible for them to painlessly reach the | | | | |