When you were in nursing school, I imagine you didn’t picture yourself being an agency nurse. That is understandable, not many people do. However, there are so many wonderful benefits to working as an agency nurse and we wanted to ensure you knew what those were so that you could make an educated decision about your career path.
With Total Medical Personnel Staffing, our nurses enjoy flexibility in your career, top pay, health insurance, and a team behind you dedicated to supporting your nursing career.
Top Seven Benefits of Working as a Nurse for Total Medical Personnel Staffing.
So, how does working per diem positions have the potential to advance your career? Let’s break them down.
1. With Total Medical Personnel Staffing, Your Opinion Counts!
When you choose to join our healthcare family, you are involved in every aspect of your patients’ care and are trusted to provide hope, compassion, and healing to patients and their families. We spend our days creating a space for you to ask questions, voice any and all concerns you may have, provide advice when you need it, and offering you with encouragement as we assist you in your endeavors.
Working with a nursing staffing agency means you have a support system at your fingertips that you can contact day or night. No matter the issue, we want you to know that we are here for you!
2. Agency nursing means job flexibility.
How often in your nursing career have you missed a kid’s performance at school? Or maybe you had to miss out on attending a fun event trip with your friends because you did not get permission to have that time off. What if I told you that you could be in control of your schedule as opposed to your schedule being in control of you?
At Total Medical, we give you the flexibility to work when you want, and at times that fit your schedule and the priorities you have set for your life. Maybe you want to work per diem for a while until you find a long-term assignment that better suits your lifestyle? Or maybe you are interested in a nursing position that has a 9-5 schedule so that you can better enjoy the weekends?
No matter how you choose to work, our agency can help you work in a way that best suits how you want to live your life.
3. Agency Nursing can help you to diversify your career further.
One of the amazing benefits of being a registered nurse for an agency is that it helps you further specialize in your nursing career. Often, as a floor nurse in a hospital, you spend your days on the same floor, with the same patient type. For example, if you are an L&D nurse, your days are strictly spent on the labor and delivery floor helping women make it successfully through childbirth. But what happens if you ever decide you want to work in a different specialty such as the ICU? With a typical hospital nursing position, it is extremely difficult to jump to a different floor and specialty, and the process of getting to a new floor can seem daunting. And what happens when you eventually get to that new department and do not like it?
Agency nursing positions allow you the opportunity to not only try a new specialty (or several specialities) to see if it is something you could see yourself doing full-time. The floor you have always wanted to work in could be easily accessed through nursing agency work, and help you get your foot in the door to departments that you have longed to work in.
4. Working for a staffing agency means generous pay.
Rather you work full-time as an agency nurse or just picking up RN PRN shifts to earn extra income, working through an agency means more money. Did you know that agency nurses make a higher rate every hour than a full-time or part-time nurse shift worker? It is true!
Did you also know that when you work for Total Medical Personnel Staffing, we provide our healthcare workers with daily pay? That is right, daily pay. When you clock out of your shift you can head directly to our office and we will pay you immediately for the work you did that day. Daily pay ensures that you aren’t waiting weeks for your paycheck like you do with most healthcare staffing agencies. It can be considered instant gratification at the end of a long day and can help you be prepared for emergencies that may arise, or to save up for the trip you have been wanting to take.
5. Registered nurse staffing prevents burnout.
We have all been there. You have been working in the same unit for months or even years. You are tired of the walls and people that surround you, and you feel that you are at a breaking point.
Is that how you currently feel?
When you choose to work for a nursing staffing agency such as Total Medical Personnel Staffing, you have the opportunity never to feel burnout again. You can spend a day, week, or even months with a particular unit and then switch things up and move to a new one. You simply show up, save the day, and then clock out, remaining in neutral territory the whole time.
6. When you work as an RN for an agency, you are able to network.
Agency nursing allows you the opportunity to make connections with different clinicians and facilities. In turn, you will establish a wonderful reputation for yourself as hard-working nursing who is very skilled in her field. At Total Medical we recommend asking the nurse manager on every unit you work in to provide you with a recommendation at the end of your time there. These recommendations benefit you as it boosts your resume and can further help you to acquire the job or nursing management position you have dreamt of one day having.
7. Nursing staffing allows you to train and learn.
Training and continuous learning are crucial to your career as a nurse in the healthcare industry. When you work for an agency, you have access to so many different types of training opportunities that ensure that your skills are up to date and remain compliant in your field all while ensuring you are never bored because every day as an agency nurse is fun and exciting!
Accelerate Your Career as an RN with Total Medical Personnel Staffing!
You can see that there are enormous benefits to working with a nursing agency. Total Medical Personnel Staffing provides incredible opportunities for all healthcare professionals. Contact Us today for more information on how to get started on your journey with us.