Healthcare Staffing & Career Blog

Travel healthcare, staffing and career insights from Aureus Medical.


New Assignment, New City – What Now?

Traveling to a new city every 13 weeks can be overwhelming and exhausting. Between learning your way around the city, starting a new job, and making friends, you may not know where to even start. Planning ahead and coordinating with your Aureus Account Manager can make all the difference. Here are a few tips to help with the adjustment.

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Where Will You Spend Your Winter?

As cold weather quickly approaches travel nurses may be asking, “Snow or sand for the winter?” Now is the perfect time to start deciding on where to spend the holidays and where your next travel destination will be. Some of the top choices this time of year for traveling nurses are Hawaii, Florida, Arizona, and California. All these states are popular states for this time of year.

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Celebrate Physician Assistant Week

You, as a Physician Assistant, play a vital role in our health care system. You take care of our families and friends in a variety of settings from the walk-in clinic to heart surgery and often do so with little or no recognition from others.

National Physician Assistants Week is celebrated every year October 6-12 as a way to support and recognize PAs. Aureus Medical would like to say thank you for all you do as a skilled and valuable member of the healthcare community, not only this week but every week throughout the year.

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Aureus Medical Honors Employees of the Year

Our amazing employees are what make Aureus Medical Group one of the top healthcare staffing agencies in the nation! We honored our Contract Employees of the Year at a special recognition dinner held on September 23 in Omaha, NE, home of our corporate headquarters. Congratulations to all of the winners!

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Aureus Medical Group Featured in Advance for Imaging and Radiation Oncology Staffing Scene

Advance for Imaging and Radiation Oncology highlighted Aureus Medical Group in a recent Staffing Scene profile. “If we don’t trust our technologists to take care of members of our own families, then they are not the right fit for our company.” Craig Wolf, vice president and general manager of Aureus Medical Group, backs the clinical and professional performance of his employees-thousands of which contribute to the direct hire, national contract (travel) and local contract placements the company provides.

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Celebrate National Physical Therapy Month

October is National Physical Therapy month! This is a great opportunity to step back and pat yourself on the shoulder for all of the work you do and for the good that comes from it. As many healthcare workers do, we focus so much on pushing ourselves to help others with their own treatment and wellness, that we often times neglect ourselves. Take time this month to not only take pride in your career choice, but to make sure your patients get the healthiest and most focused you. With all of the stressors in life (family, money, and work to name a FEW), it’s easy for us to overlook ourselves as a priority.

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Essential Items for Traveling Assignments

Tired of stressing? Want to make your travel assignments more enjoyable? We at Aureus do not want you to stress over the little things! As a contract employee, you should be enjoying your assignment instead of dealing with the unexpected. However we all know the unexpected is inevitable, but how do you plan for it? We have compiled a list of helpful items your fellow travelers swear by. Here are a few items to take on your next assignment so that you can be better prepared for what life can throw at you!

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