Atlas All Access

It's been a tumultuous year for our industry and our front line healthcare workers. But traveling healthcare professionals should take heart knowing the industry as a whole is still growing.

We've weathered this storm and we'll weather whatever's coming.

We take a look at the Staffing Industry Analysts' 2020 breakdown. We see where Atlas MedStaff has grown, and we get the inside industry scoop from VP of Business Development Stephen Seitner.

What does 2021 look like for someone considering travel nursing?

Get to know Stephen Seitner:

https://tinyurl.com/y283m5c4

Aaron Highfill has been busy checking every box you can on the Travel Nurse checklist of adventure.

Travel nurse, flight nurse, travel the world, fly across the country, now road-tripping across the country, high-five a penguin in Antarctica this is a man motivated by the insatiable wanderlust of the true traveler.

If you're thinking of taking your travel nurse adventure to the next level, or you just want to know more about the extreme options out there, don't miss this episode.

And if you want a good read, check out Aaron's recent blog post on the TravCon site here:

https://tinyurl.com/yyoxujp5

What's it like to be a new travel nurse recruiter when you start in the middle of a pandemic? (No pressure.)

We talk with some of the newest Atlas staffers to find out what they've learned about jumping into the recruiting life, tips for new travelers, and how you're never alone: You can lean on your recruiter.

I think the thing that surprised me the most is just how much I love it. -- Alicia Carosella

Get to know our team:

Alicia Carosella https://tinyurl.com/y5ykakxg

Wesley Wright https://tinyurl.com/yxmp3wsq

Lauren Bencekovich https://tinyurl.com/yytvd8e8

What happens if you get exposed to coronavirus while at work? You are a mighty Covid Warrior, but what do you do when the hospital sends you home because of a potential exposure?

STEP 1: Call your recruiter immediately. We'll work with you and help you through the process.

Learn how we are coping with our own potential exposure, doing the right thing, and quarantining ourselves at home. AND, learn what to do if you, as a healthcare professional, may have been exposed while on the job.

What you need to know: We've got your back.

TravCon 2020 -- we miss you and we never got the chance to know you.

Normally, right now, we would be in Vegas with all of you, celebrating TravCon and toasting to our awesome travel nurses and travel healthcare pros. But 2020 has been a bit of a [insert your favorite swear]. Right?

We chat with Tricia Novak: NICU RN, travel nurse, volunteer coordinator for TravCon, and all-around awesome person. Share some TravCon memories with us as we talk about the TravCon that wasn't (2020), and the TravCon that will be (2021).

Suddenly we feel like Bob Cratchit discussing the ghosts of TravCon Past, The Ghost of TravCon Present, The Ghost of TravCon Future, and The Ghost of OMG You Had Too Many Shots Last Night at TravCon. (Dickens left out that last ghost from earlier drafts.) In this metaphor, Scrooge is just 2020 as a whole.

We are thrilled to announce that an Atlas MedStaff travel nurse recruiter is the winner of this year's Recruiter of the Year.

Find out who the winner is from the fine folks at ScrubSquad -- the winner that *you* voted for -- and get the inside scoop on next year's Healthcare Travelers Take conference.

Want to know more about our Recruiter of the Year? Reach out to Travel Nurse Recruiter Braden Boex:

Braden: https://tinyurl.com/yxrsuyfw

Wedding photography, hopeless romantics, trashy television, and goofy comedies; what do all of these things have in common? They're just a few of Dezirae's favorite things! This week, we sit down with Dezirae Thrower, who was hired on as one of our Allied recruiters in January (fun fact: all of our recruiters are nurse AND Allied recruiters now!). When she's not watching Ozark or Shameless, Dezirae is being a photographer, spending time with her friends and family, and helping healthcare professionals get those travel placements!

In this episode, we talk about some of Dezirae's favorite shows, the funniest moments in Step Brothers, and why sometimes you have to push through that awful pilot season of a show to get to the good stuff (looking right at you, Parks amp; Recreation).

Learn more about Dezirae on her bio page: https://tinyurl.com/wagduy8

With so many people trying to figure out how to homeschool for the first time, we talked with a pro.

Learn from a travel nurse family how they have tackled homeschooling, how every day can be an adventure (or challenge), and how there's always an opportunity to learn.

A classroom setting has its pros and cons, but any place can be a learning lesson.

As many of us try to figure out the new normal for the school year, here are some quick tips to keep in mind when you consider homeschooling or remote learning.

And for more great tips like this, check out our friends at No Ordinary Path on YouTube

https://tinyurl.com/qq54d4g

Trust your recruiter and your agency. If they've always been there for you, listen to them over the internet noise.

We love the Internet! But we also know that while eternal vigilance is the price of freedom (attributed to Thomas Jefferson), replying to a contentious comment thread with a gif of Darth Vader screaming Noooo is the price of dealing with internet trolls.

Don't trust everything you read online.

We've seen waves and tumultuous storms like this in the industry before. And this, too, shall pass. It's just obnoxious while you're on the boat rocking away in the storm -- we get it.

Tune in to check out some unfiltered industry insights in this episode of Atlas All Access. How do you filter out internet trolls? How do you win an internet argument? And what can you do to weather the storm now that jobs are back?

Go back to the people and the agency that you trust. You should be able to trust them enough to take something to them you have seen online, and simply ask them, Is this legit?

They would much rather help you navigate those waters than drift off course because of a persistent troll.

We've decided to have our entire staff remain work-from-home through all of 2020. What does this mean for you?

This wasn't an easy decision, but it's the right thing to do.

We are incredibly focused on being the support structure to our traveling healthcare professionals. We are here working for you so that you can focus on your patients, on our loved ones, on getting us all through this.

Early on during The-Year-That-Shall-Not-Be-Named (that's 2020), we were one of the first travel nurse agencies to make the decision to send our team home to work fully remote.

Now we are committing even further to that effort. Our team will work-from-home throughout the rest of the year. Some of us haven't stepped foot in the office since early March! (It's been a weird year.)

It's important for us to take care of our team, and that includes our travelers along with our in-house staff. We want to be part of the solution. And if we are pushing to open our office HQ too soon, we run the risk of putting people in danger of contracting Covid-19 or taking up valuable beds that you need.

This is why our team will continue to work from home for you.

We're here, working for you. We just might be doing it in our pajamas with an ice-cold IPA next to us.