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The Benefits of a Career as a Travel Nurse

In recent years, nursing has become one of the most flourishing industries in the United States, and even globally. With a vast amount of opportunities immediately after you graduate, nursing students can be assured that they will not spend months just trying to find a job.

While nursing is a demanding profession, a career as a travel nurse can allow registered nurses to travel the world and experience an entirely different culture. For this reason, hundreds of graduates a year are taking time to get into the travel nursing program. With an attractive salary, flexibility, and an abundance of short term projects, you can finally work and travel at the same time.

Travel nurses are in demand! The most popular wards that need to be filled are ICU and pre-natal care. If these are not your specialty, it is still almost effortless to get a job as a travel nurse. As long as you have a great resume, great references, a recognized degree, and a determination to succeed, there will be a travel nurse career waiting for you.

One of the greatest benefits of being a travel nurse is that you get the best fringe benefits in the entire industry. Although most would assume that full time registered nurses would get these packages, travel nurses actually obtain the best of the best.

As a result, travel nurses not only get retirement plans and medical/dental insurance, but they also get free housing! This means that a fully furnished apartment or housing unit will be given to you, as long as you are working a certain amount of time. In most cases, companies will immediately find a place for you to live. Just imagine - a magnificent salary, a free home, and the choice to live anywhere. For the majority of people, this sounds like a dream come true.

Still not impressed? Travel nurses also may be eligible for incentive programs. When a nurse completes a task or has to move onto another assignment, companies often give them reward points. In return, these reward points transfer into prizes, cash, and even vacations. Like credit card companies and bank offers, travel nursing companies allow these points to be used whenever you'd like. It is a great benefit, especially for someone who has everything else paid for.

In most cases, travel nursing companies also give you money towards referrals. This is similar to other programs, but is usually much more generous. For instance, if you had been in travel nursing for years and wanted to recommend it to a friend, you would get paid for referring her to your company. If she is a great employee, you may even generate more of a profit. For people who enjoy incentive programs and performance bonuses, this can be a great benefit.

When nurses graduate college they might assume that they will be stuck working in the same city, or at least within a state or two. However, this doesn't have to be the case. Nurses can experience the whole world, as long as they enjoy traveling, are willing to move, and settle in a new place. For many, it is a chance of a lifetime. Finally they are able to see parts of the country that they probably would never have the chance to see.

When traditional nurses get a full-time job, it can be difficult to make time to see the world. Luckily, travel nursing allows you to do so while still practicing the most noble profession of all: nursing!

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Darlene Berkel, of http://www.every1loves2travel.com , writes on a variety of subjects. Visit also http://www.vacation.every1loves2travel.com and http://www.cruise.every1loves2travel.com

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Travel In Buenos Aires: A Quick Barrio Guide

Cross the street and everything changes. Buenos Aires, more than most cities of a comparable size, gives you the feeling of a patchwork quilt city ? a city which is defined by its neighborhoods (barrios).





If you ask a porte?o, one of Buenos Aires residents, where he?s from, he won?t say Buenos Aires ? he?ll give you his neighborhood?s name. And if you ask him which barrio is the best, any self-respecting porte?o will tell you that his barrio is.





It?s best to take this advice lightly and sample a handful.





The barrios commonly visited by tourists and travelers include, in descending order of popularity:





1) Recoleta. Buenos Aires? equivalent of New York?s Upper East Side or London?s Knightsbridge. Fancy, ornate and posh. A quick list of things to see and do include the cemetery, the lobbies of the five star hotels (of which the Alvear is the most ostentatious), and Avenida Santa Fe?s shopping.





2) Palermo. Known for its parks as well as its restaurants, bars and colorful little shops. When Palermo is mentioned as the best place in Buenos Aires to go out, it?s probably Palermo Viejo and Palermo Hollywood (two micro-barrios) that are being referred to. They?re BA?s hippest places to be seen at the moment, where you can take part in the city?s crazy nightlife that doesn?t even begin to slow down until the sun?s already risen. (A proper Buenos Aires night out should finish with breakfast.)





3) Downtown (Microcentro). This is where Buenos Aires? suits go on a business day. It?s the center of the nation?s economy, a place of high rise office buildings, narrow crowded streets, and exhaust fumes. For the tourist without business concerns, it?s almost entirely devoid of interest (though you wouldn?t know it from the large numbers who flock there). Towards San Telmo, in the older part of the downtown area, there are sites to be seen, however: the Plaza de Mayo, the Casada Rosada (the ?Pink House?, Buenos Aires? equivalent to the White House) and the Manzana de las Luces are all worth a visit.





4) San Telmo. A barrio of cobblestone streets, antique stores, and colonial area mansions. In the early days of Buenos Aires, the Spanish and upper-crust criollos established themselves in this area and built grandiose buildings with interior patios. When those moneyed citizens fled San Telmo and took off for Recoleta to escape cholera epidemics in the late 19th century, the mansions were abandoned to squatters and San Telmo was transformed into the center of Buenos Aires bohemia. Recently, interest from visitors, foreign and Argentine alike, has brought gentrification to the barrio. This means security, once a sore spot, has improved, but prices have shot up as well.





5) One place where it is still best to watch your wallet though is La Boca. As a matter of fact, it?s really only recommendable to visit the tourist area of El Caminito where the Argentine Federal Police have been stationed to watch your back. This little street, with its bright colored houses, has very nearly been touristed to death. Still, no visit to Buenos Aires is complete without a visit to the fabled street of garish colors. On game days, the soccer stadium in La Boca is another major reason to visit the barrio.





When you come to Buenos Aires, though, do yourself a favor and try to break out of the established tourist routines, if only for a little while. Just a few recommendations of the lesser visited barrios, where your fellow-citizens and fellow travelers are less likely to be tagging along with you, include:





Las Ca?itas in Belgrano. Restaurants, restaurants, restaurants galore (plus, it?s a stone throw from Palermo).





Almagro. What San Telmo used to be, Almagro still is: Bohemian. Check newspaper listings for tango concerts, independent theatre and other events in the area. Meanwhile, the cafe Las Violetas, on the corner of Rivadavia Avenue and Medrano street, is amongst the most beautifully restored historic cafes in the city.





Mataderos, an outlying barrio where the city?s butchers still ply their trade, is also a find, not so much for the barrio itself but for the Sunday afternoon market which takes place in the barrio?s main square. This market is not to be confused with the markets in San Telmo or Recoleta. It?s bigger, better, with a greater variety of authentic hand-craft goods ? leather and silver amongst others. In the spring and summer months, gauchos from the nearby countryside perform rodeo displays at the market as well.

About The Author Scott Ferree is a translator and English instructor, as well as the study abroad coordinator for the Interhispanica Language School in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The Interhispanica Spanish School is located in the barrio of Recoleta: http://www.interhispanica.com.ar.

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