What is healthcare staffing company?
Healthcare Staffing companies provides skilled and non skilled healthcare professional to healthcare facilities. Some of these healthcare professionals such as Registered Nurses, Doctors, locum tenens, certified nursing assistants and other allied healthcare professional are employed as an independent contractors or as an employee of a healthcare medical staffing agencies.
How big is the healthcare staffing industry?
Healthcare Staffing market is estimated to grow about $27 billion by 2026. The U.S. travelling nurse industry has a growth rate of 35% as of 2020 in the amount of $8.4 billion. As Covid 19 surges, travel nurse are more in demand than ever. Travelling Registered Nurses can make $5000 per week. Some nursing floors are primarily staffed by Travel nurses, which they are being called “traveler.
What is the average age of a travel nurse?
44 years old the average of a travel nurse. Majority of these travel nurses work within their local area, but a good number travel outside their state. They are either contracted short term or long term. Travel nurses that work within their state are mostly per diem basis, where they work on call and jump hospitals to hospitals every week.
What percentage of supplemental nurses are travel nurses?
Per diem, short term and long term contracts account to 35% of the nursing workforce in the U.S. 2-3% work in the acute setting.