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It used to be that if a nurse called in sick and the hospital exhausted their local resources of on-call staff nurses, they would call a per diem staffing agency and a local replacement nurse arrived to cover the shift. Due to increases in our population, a longer lifespan, an increase in treatments per patient, and an inadequate number of new nursing schools however, these staff shortages have grown. What has emerged from these shortages is the field of travel nurse staffing. Read More