[Round Earther]

“...gets paid substantially more than nurses working full time seems a bit odd to say the least.”

No, it simply means that the market has decided that nurses in Iowa are not being paid what the market demands.

[hanamizu]

No, it simply means that the market has decided...

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I get all that. But somehow the hospitals find the money to pay the travelers. A couple of years ago I got to spend a lot more time with medical personnel than I would have chosen. The nurses who cared for me were vastly overworked and apparently underpaid. A couple get sick (this was during the Wuhan era) and they’re even more overworked. I did not envy then.

[millerph]

A lot of traveling nurses are needed in small rural hospitals. People don’t want to move there and the way to get the help they need is pay enough to make it worth it. This says a nurse working in BFE cannot be paid more than 150% of what a nurse in a large city who works close to home makes. Expect to see this changes fairly quickly or rural hospitals to close.