This book provides a broad base of information intended to guide professional nurses in pursuing a travel nursing career. Written by a seasoned practitioner, the book includes tips on how to enter the field of travel nursing, negotiate assignment contracts, increase pay, improve benefits and enhance travel assignments. The guide is designed to provide quick access to needed information, and shows nurses how to acquire representation from a staffing company, how to arrive well-prepared at an assignment location, and how to interview with prospective facilities. In a one light, easy-to-read volume, Fast Facts for the Travel Nurse provides everything practitioners need to enjoy a lucrative and interesting travel nursing career. Key Features: Written by a seasoned travel nurse - Provides whole-career guidance - Offers information on state boards of nursing and travel staffing companies - Includes a complete standard math test study guide - Written in a personal, easy-to-read style 197 Michele Landrum, RN, CCRN, is currently a nurse educator at Springhill Medical Center in Mobile, Alabama. Her experience has focused predominantly in cardiac-related positions, including Cardiac Cath and EP labs, ER, ICU and SICU environments. Michele has six years of travel nursing experience in many states across the US, including Alaska and Hawaii.