Behind The Scrubs: The Travel Nurse Experience

Our host Justin was recently on the Cup Of Nurses podcast hosted by two traveling nurses, Matt Solarczyk & Peter Findura. Their mission is to change the world and provide value through health news and breaking down hot nursing topics. There is no sugarcoating the good, bad or ugly of information and all topics will be confronted with the brutal truth.  Tune in and enjoy this episode flip!

We've been Scrub Hacked, but the co-founder of ScrubHacks, Lyndsey Shelton(check spelling). We know you are all used to hearing from our host, Justin Allison, keeping your fellow nurses on their toes! However, it was time to mix things up. We put a nurse in the driver's seat, one with experience as a traveler, a solid social media presence, and extensive career goals! We love an ambitious queen. A...

Sam Kane, if we didn't have proof (Thanks, Video Chat), you'd be sure to think we made her up. This nurse has nerves of steel. Not only did she make the jump from vaccine clinic assignment to Level I Trauma hospital without balking, this 5-year travel nurse veteran regularly puts her fear to the test: She just went Skydiving despite being afraid of heights She swims with sharks She's a nurse - eno...

Joining our host, Justin Allison, in the next installment of the Executive Series is VP of Gov. Relations for American Staffing Association, Toby Malara. In addition to running ASA, he casually runs the Malar Broadcast Group. We DO NOT want to see his daily task list. In the early days of young Toby Malara, he went for a Law degree after some prompting from Dad, he didn’t go into law because he re...

You know him as the man and mind behind Travel Nurse Takeover, but Ryan Sendow is so much more! We caught up with him while he’s currently on assignment in Seattle to talk about his lifestyle, travels, and how his FOMO catalyzed TNT. While others were on exciting contracts, Ryan wanted to hear about their stories (not just the Snapchat ones). Aside from the nursing game, the content game and the h...

Adam is a part of a tale as old as time. He fell into the business and recruiting very quickly and just as quickly fell in love with it; however, like with so many love affairs, the honeymoon period had to come to an end. As it did, Adam noticed cracks and fissures in the industry, so industriously he took his 20+ years of experience and found a way to fill them with his founding of Great Recruite...

Did we just become best friends? We did and you will too! Join Justin as he sits down with CEO and founder of NurseRX, Chriss Diltz. Chriss is a verified travel nurse guru, a travel nursing fairy godmother, if you will. She’s sharp, she’s direct, and she’s ready with witty responses at every turn willing to push the conversation into new, guilty pleasure territory! After spending years in the busi...

Pull up a chair, get a cozy blanket, and settle in for this fireside chat with Lead CEO, Laban Pattanaik, and CGO, Justin Allison. In this episode we get insight into the rapid growth of the little staffing company that could, Lead Healthstaff. Since its inception creating a culture has been a key value that has permeated every hiring decision. Lead has always wanted to be authentic while practici...

We hit the strip for our first ever trip to TravCon and connected with our community of nurses and clinicians in a BIG way. Jackpot! There is clearly no better place than this for real time, face to face interactions with the true heroes of the patient care story. We were absolutely blown away by the positivity exuding from so many we met in the travel nurse community. Especially at a time when we...

Meet Emily & Ryan, two of the most truly authentic and exceptional human beings we’ve ever encountered! Their overwhelming care for their patients and their entire community is palpable. Harnessing that positive energy spawned the birth of their phenomenal app, MedVenture App in which they provide tools for successful travel journeys. The app features the ability to seamlessly connect with oth...

Welcome our guy Matt to the BTS fold! His values align so seamlessly with ours it’s borderline doppelganger. Positive, Mindful, Aware and Gracious are just a few of the above average character traits this ICU Travel Nurse exemplifies. When he’s not hitting the mats training in Jiu-Jitsu he’s taking full advantage of his nomadic lifestyle and crushing EPIC 8 month trips up and down the west coast a...

Mic check! Mic check 1, 2! Episode 17 of the Behind The Scrubs podcast featuring Mike Linares is LIVE. Nurse Mike is a bonafide jack of all trades. Rapper, nurse, educator, entrepreneur, fitness YouTuber, and CEO to name a few. In this episode, Mike recounts his rags to riches journey to success, and the lessons he learned along the way. His business, Simple Nursing, an online nurse education plat...

Meet the Friendly Travelers! ...and let me tell you, they truly are so friendly. If you're a traveler looking for inspiration to travel, date, work, or workout, then this is the episode for you. In this episode, you'll begin to believe in love and fate again; yes, that’s dramatic, but they really are a modern-day Beauty and the Beast (you decide who is who, have you seen Kristina's muscles?!) Tune...

Q is pure light in human form. From the #Everydayhero podcast comes host Swardiq Mayanja, or Q for short(est) telling us who he is behind his scrubs! A seasoned travel nurse, Q talks and swears his way through stories about moving ALOT, states with different patient ratios, and how nurses don’t get snow days in rough winters. Laugh your way through this episode learning how Q tackles his nursing s...

We’ve had our share of popular and experienced travel nurses come through our show, peppering them with questions and pushing for details. This week, the tables have turned. We had ReyAnn, Nurse Brennan, Amber Kendra, and The Wanderers submit their burning questions putting host, Justin Allison, recruiter turned CPO in the hot seat.

#13 is the first in our #ExecutiveEdition series on Behind the Scrubs. I sit down with my guy Kyle Morey-Leber, Chief Client Officer, at Lead Healthstaff and discuss the pulse of travel nursing in the wake of the pandemic bubble bursting. Kyle is crushing the patient care game and humbly boasts 15 years of experience in healthcare staffing.    Bringing in a new perspective, we look at th...

Inspiration, humor, and dancing are just the warm-up for getting to know Daniel Liga, RN aka Murse Liga D. We dive into the events that shaped his passion for saving lives and the ultimate endgame being happiness. We also chat about his social media content game on IG and TikTok, his role with the newly launched NurseCon online platform, the toxic culture of nurses eating their young, and his plan...

Meg & Ty aka We The Wanderers are two of the most genuine and authentic adventurers and travel nurses that have been traversing the country in their souped-up van since 2019! Get to know them through this episode and their blog where we discuss everything from their recent marriage to two years on the road living in their van. If you’re a nurse considering joining the movement, tune in for tip...

Joel joined the Navy in 97’, worked in Emergency Trauma in the hospital and out in the field, he was with the Navy Seals in the mid-2000s before retiring in 2018 from the Navy to pursue travel nursing. He surfs, is a musician, a proud father, is fluent in Japanese and drifting, and is building a Clinical Education business (Nursing 123) on the side to fuel his passion for teaching others and givin...

Live. Capture. Explore. Those are wise words from Tobe Ezimora, Travel RN aka Murse Tobe. He is living life to the fullest while bringing a positive vibe everywhere he explores. He credits his time as a student-athlete for helping propel him forward in life and his nursing career. Two huge lessons it taught him was the power of discipline and how to respond to failure. In this episode we explore h...

From a Teacher to a Travel Nurse, Claudea is crushing life and patient care. She currently works staff at an amazing community hospital in Northern California but traveling again is not out of the question. We dig into her journey of becoming a Registered Nurse, what it was like coming out of nursing school and getting hired, the interview process, a super inspiring patient care story, and a littl...

Amber wasn’t always a Travel Nurse but she is absolutely crushing it and patient care. This is a direct reflection of the amazing and compassionate person that she is along with her great supporting cast while on assignment (3 Bernese Mountain Dogs). We had a blast discussing her love for nature, recent engagement, challenges working the crisis, the vaccine, self-care & adventure, and how to m...

ReyAnn is an amazing human being and it was an absolute pleasure digging into the nurse behind the scrubs on this episode. We talk about living life so true to yourself that it inspires others to do the same. Her passion for international travel, whether or not it was the right decision for her to work as a travel nurse, advice for nurses stuck on travel nursing, pandemic rates and nurses chasing...

Dylan is an ICU / Critical Care RN that is currently battling the virus in the trenches on the frontlines. He has worked at some of the largest healthcare organizations in California, battled some serious career adversity (Camp Fire and the pandemic) as of late, and he has some travel experience too. Also, Dylan is our first guest that has a family at home (Wife and two daughters) so his perspecti...

Shannon Beattie, RN joins us on the show to share her Travel Nurse journey. It kicks off with her first assignment in Kentucky, and how that set her up for success to land her next assignment in California. She has leveraged Social Media and Facebook travel nursing groups specifically, to help her find contracts and recruiters to work with. We discuss her experience working during the pandemic and...