Specialties
Nurses that care for adult patients who are recovering from surgery or managing acute and chronic medical conditions.
Med/Surg
Focuses in a particular area of medicine, such as orthopedic surgery, psychiatric care, or rehabilitation.
Specialty Hospital
The rate charged by the staffing agency to the healthcare facility for the services of a travel nurse. This includes the nurse's pay and additional agency fees.
Bill Rate
Nurses in this unit are providing immediate care for patients with urgent or life-threatening conditions. They triage patients, provide pain management, assist in trauma care, and stabilize patients before they are moved for further treatment.
Emergency Room
This is one of the largest and most widely used EMR systems in hospitals and healthcare organizations across the U.S. Robust and complicated to learn.
Epic
Nurses that work in this unit are caring for patients with life-threatening conditions. The highest level of acuity patients that are likely managing vents.
Intensive Care Unit
These hospitals are often are on the cutting edge of medical research and treatments. Patients may encounter medical students or residents as part of their care.
Teaching/Academic Hospitals
A healthcare facility that provides outpatient medical services, such as diagnosis, treatment, and preventive care, without requiring an overnight stay.
Clinic
Nurses that work with patients before, during, and after surgery.
Perioperative - OR
Capable of providing comprehensive trauma care 24/7, including surgeries, intensive care, and specialized services like neurosurgery, orthopedic surgery, and burn care.
Level 1 Trauma
Nurses that provide compassionate care to terminally ill patients, focusing on pain and symptom management.
Hospice
Have fewer than 25 beds, offer emergency care, and typically provide basic inpatient services.
Critical Access Hospitals
The number of hours a nurse is promised to work during an assignment. If the facility doesn’t offer these hours, the nurse is still paid for the agreed-upon amount.
Guaranteed Hours
Nurses who coordinate patient care by developing and overseeing care plans, ensuring appropriate services are provided efficiently.
Case Management
Provides initial stabilization and advanced trauma life support (ATLS).
Level 4 Trauma
Nurses that assist with diagnostic and interventional cardiac procedures, such as angiograms, stent placements, and pacemaker insertions.
Cath Lab
Tend to offer a wide range of services but may prioritize higher-margin procedures
For-Profit Hospitals
A classification system used to designate a hospital's ability to provide comprehensive care for traumatic injuries.
Trauma Level
Nurses that specialize in caring for elderly patients.
Long Term Care/Skilled Nursing
Some nurses find it less intuitive than other systems and report some inefficiency when accessing patient data. One of the older programs.
Meditech
Nurses in this unit care for newborns, particularly premature or critically ill infants.
NICU (Neonatal Intensive Care Unit)
Focus on providing services to populations who may not otherwise have access to healthcare, such as veterans or low-income individuals.
Government Owned Hospitals
Refers to the number of patients in a hospital or healthcare facility. A facility’s census can affect the demand for travel nurses.
Census
This specialty may have objections about schedules, on call, and scrubbing.
Operating Room
Highly customizable and user-friendly; also has a mobile version for easier access to patient data.
Cerner