Healthcare Professionals

Organize Your Life by Unifying Your Healthcare Career

Kamana

September 14, 2022

If you’re one of the 14 million individuals in the U.S. who has (willingly) chosen healthcare for your career path, YOU. ARE. AMAZING! 👏 You’ve dedicated your time and energy to helping others and you are literally saving the world. Whether wearing that superhero cape or not, healthcare is part of your identity – but who is helping you!?

With conference season among us, we’ve compiled some of our favorite partners that can bring you the best healthcare industry resources. From finance, housing, community apps, traveler tips, and skills training, we are committed to working with our trusted partners and we hope you love them too!

Streamline the Application & Credentialing Process

The paperwork associated with a healthcare career can be time-consuming, frustrating, and hard to manage. To improve your speed to market and ensure you’re maximizing your ability to earn while elevating your work-life balance, you’ll need to make sure you’re utilizing the right tools and resources, and that those tools work cohesively with potential employers’ processes.

Consider a Detailed Job Profile over a Traditional Resume

We’ve covered 8 must-do’s for an A+ job profile in a previous blog, but ensuring you can easily share your job profile with all current and future recruiters will help you streamline the onboarding process. When everything is documented in advance, you can pounce on new job opportunities, and allow your potential employer to get you submitted sooner for that in-demand job you’re looking for.Kamana’s free universal job profile is used by 180,000+ healthcare professionals to securely manage their credentials, resume, and career. Shameless plug? Maybe. But, switching from a traditional resume to a detailed job profile will help you speed up the submission process and avoid having the same conversations with potential employers, keep all your personal data private and secure & overall manage your career in healthcare.

> Create a Free Profile

Working with multiple recruiters & websites to find the best opportunities in healthcare is worthwhile, but it’s often overwhelming to know where to start and what’s worth your time.

The LIST compiles all the jobs from multiple agencies in one live list. Their website is designed to let healthcare professionals search for high-quality jobs sourced from multiple agencies. View complete & reliable information about assignments, check out recruiter reviews from other travelers, and connect with them instantly using Kamana’s universal job profile.

Search for Jobs in the Right Places

Working with multiple recruiters & websites to find the best opportunities in healthcare is worthwhile, but it’s often overwhelming to know where to start and what’s worth your time.

The LIST compiles all the jobs from multiple agencies in one live list. Their website is designed to let healthcare professionals search for high-quality jobs sourced from multiple agencies. View complete & reliable information about assignments, check out recruiter reviews from other travelers, and connect with them instantly using Kamana’s universal job profile.

> Browse Jobs

Read & Understand the Terms of Each Contract

Before every new assignment, you’ll need to go through the credentialing process and review a new contract for that position. Taking the time to read and understand healthcare assignment contracts is a necessary evil that takes time and experience. These contracts define the responsibilities and compensation that you’ll be bound to during the assignment, so you always want to avoid signing your life away before you’ve fully read through the document and have a throughout understanding of its components.

If you’re feeling overwhelmed while trying to decipher this legal document, you’re not alone, and help is right around the corner! NurseRX is a launchpad that streamlines the process of transitioning staff nurses to travelers. They take pride in teaching healthcare professionals all there is to know about reading and understanding your travel nurse contract. Consider booking a free info session with their team today, and chat with an industry professional to learn what NurseRX can do for you! Make sure to meet NurseRX’s, Christine Diltz, at TravCon too!

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Find a Community in Healthcare

When it comes to being a healthcare professional, it’s important to remember that you’re not alone, and many are sharing similar experiences. But, finding people that share your perspective isn’t always easy. There are many different ways you can build your healthcare community and support network.

Attend & Network at Healthcare Conferences

As the restrictions from the COVID-19 pandemic ease, mass gatherings such as industry conferences are once again becoming more prevalent. These events are an effective way to network with other healthcare professionals, and advance your career by gaining access to the right connections & information.

At most conferences, you’ll find thought-provoking presentations and interesting guest speakers. But, TravCon is one of the most popular healthcare travel conferences, and the only time of year where over 1500 healthcare travel professionals, recruiting companies, and niche-specific services that serve our community gather to network, build relationships, and exchange information & insights.

> SIGN UP

Integrate Healthcare Resources & Support

The harsh reality of healthcare is that it’s often disjointed and lacks transparency. Cracking open old laptops, logging into dozens of websites, and seeking advice in disparate forums and social media isn’t an ideal way to manage your healthcare career. Having access to a central location to find brands you love for medical gear, discovering new tools to improve your work life, and access to peers to trade advice and give recommendations with is invaluable.

Lumify Care offers a one-stop shop for healthcare professionals to gain access to 100+ brands, organizations, and resources that support you at the bedside and beyond! In addition to everything mentioned above, you’ll also gain exclusive rewards like discounts and giveaways by becoming a member. They also have their own unique products that’ll keep you supported from head to toe. Lumify has so much to offer, so be sure to check them out and see how their services can benefit you! Meet the Lumify Care team at TravCon Booth #527!

> DOWNLOAD LUMIFY APP

Travel the World with Healthcare Professionals

What better way to find like-minded individuals & build a community in healthcare than by sharing incredible experiences across the globe? While that may sound challenging to coordinate, our partner, MedTravelHub, plans, manages, and hosts curated experiences for the healthcare industry and makes it as easy as choosing your desired locations. Join their interest list for trip details and reserve your space with virtually everything else taken care of.

Want to learn more before taking the next step? One of their recent trips was to hike the Inca Trail to the summit of Machu Picchu – read all about it in our recent blog post!

Meet MedTravelHub’s Jonathan Pierre at TravCon, and sign up for their Las Vegas Skydive Party on September 19th!

> VIEW TRIPS

Join an Online Healthcare Community

Collaborating with other professionals in your field can accelerate your career and put you in touch with other peers and thought leaders.

If you’re a traveler, a healthcare community to take advantage of is MedVenture – with their app, you’ll gain access to many features that will elevate your career, such as being able to meet other travelers near your assignment based on common interests and qualities, find local meetups and events for healthcare professionals, share experiences in a live discussion board, read & rate facilities you’ve worked at or are considering working at, and many other resources to propel your career.

Meet the MedVenture team at TravCon Booth #311!

> DOWNLOAD NOW

Find Safe and Affordable Housing

Finding an affordable place to live while on assignment has only gotten more difficult due to the rise of home and rental prices. Healthcare professionals are forced to compete with many other industries to secure their housing in areas where they’re on assignment.

Furnished Finder is a short-term housing solution for travel healthcare professionals who need affordable and dependable furnished accommodations. They have over 100,000 furnished properties on their platform which are specifically geared to the healthcare traveler. Furnished Finder also verify landlords so you can have peace of mind that the properties you’re interested in are safe & available.

Meet the Furnished Finder team at TravCon Booth #317!

> SEARCH NOW

Say Goodbye to Student Debt

Paying for education and surviving repayment can be difficult, but it doesn’t have to be. Consolidating or refinancing your private student loans is a great way for those who have graduated, are working, and have good credit to achieve a lower rate.

College Aid Direct understands student finance and was founded to help clarify and simplify the confusing world of higher education finance for healthcare professionals. They exist to help in your journey during school and beyond by providing tips on how to survive repayment. As interest rates kick back up, you’ll want to make sure that you’ve secured the lowest rate possible.

> APPLY NOW

Our Partners Make Healthcare Better & Easier!

Healthcare professionals (especially travelers working with many companies) need to prioritize organizing their professional careers. The resources above will help you maintain your documents and have them readily accessible for new opportunities, provide support through communities with similar perspectives and career hurdles, provide straightforward information on how to be most successful in the medical field, and save money along the way.

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