As of March 1, there were 110,440 active registered nurse travel jobs on the Vivian Health platform nationwide in the last seven days.

Travel nurses have been around for decades and became more widespread in the 1980s, as nursing shortages grew, but it’s really the pandemic that changed the landscape of the profession.

Stacey Button says she felt so unsupported and overworked as a licensed practical nurse in Springdale that she left her home and a full-time job to become a travel nurse.

As healthcare staffing shortages persist across the U.S., hospitals, their lobbies and elected officials are pushing for greater scrutiny into travel nurse staffing agencies and the elevated rates ...