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Where We Are Going in 2024

In our Year In Review series, we’ve talked about where we’ve been, where we are, and how we are wrapping up 2023. Now let’s talk about where we are going in 2024.

Exciting New Benefits

We’ve been hard at work behind the scenes, crafting a fantastic 2024 for our elite team. Get ready for some new benefits rolling out next year, complementing our already stellar offerings.

More Freedom and Flexibility for Travel Nurses

Our elite team members already have the ability to choose their assignments and work when they want.

2024 brings paid time off that accrues with every shift you work. Your recruiter will have more details, so keep an eye out for that well-deserved time off.

Loyalty Bonuses

To our incredible long-term elite team members, we see you and appreciate your dedication. You’ve stood by us through thick and thin. We’re excited to share some exciting rewards with you in the coming year!

Expanding Horizons – Back to Our Roots

After navigating the challenges of the COVID chaos, we’re ready to expand our reach. Fidelity On Call is returning to some of our older markets, bringing opportunities galore! From central to southern, eastern to western, and even northern Illinois, there’s a place for everyone. Connect with your recruiter to explore opportunities both in and out of state – we’ve got it all covered!

Going On 30 Years of Excellence

Fidelity On Call, a true industry leader, will embark on its 30th year in business next year! With three decades of wisdom, we’ve seen it all and are beyond excited about the possibilities 2024 holds. Thank you for being part of our journey, and here’s to another year of excellence, growth, and shared success!

We Would Never Say “I Told You So”

Part of making the switch from staff healthcare to travel healthcare is knowing you have nothing to lose. If the travel does not work for you, once you have successfully completed your contract, you can go right back to the staff side of healthcare. But, for so many reasons, once you have made the change to the travel side of healthcare, it is increasingly tough to go back to working as a staff employee. At least this is true for many Fidelity On Call travelers.

However, if you go back to being a staff nurse and then realize that you should have stayed travel, you will never hear a recruiter at Fidelity On Call say, “I TOLD YOU SO.” When you pick up the phone and call us back to say, “Hey look, staff isn’t working out for me. Can I come back?”

One of the benefits of working with a Fidelity On Call healthcare recruiter is that collectively, the recruitment team has 3 decades of experience in healthcare recruitment, and they have been there, heard that, and seen that. The beauty of travel is the variety of options.

It works for so many different seasons of one’s life that so many of our travelers have worked as staff, left and traveled with us, left for staff again, and recently are coming back in droves.

We want all of our travelers to feel important enough to reach back out to us when they want to come back. Because you ARE important. Chances are you can work with the same recruiter you had, or you can change it up and choose another one. With Fidelity On Call you have options. Always! We value and invest in our teams’ happiness because YOUR success is OUR success.

Choices for Travel Nurses

Fidelity On Call is all about freedom and flexibility. If you’re burned out in the healthcare industry and looking for options, one thing that Fidelity On Call can offer you is choices. Whatever phase you are in your healthcare career, our job is to get you the job and opportunities that you want that fit this point in your life, whatever that may be. If you’re interested in becoming one of our elite team members, explore our website all your options. Message us with questions!

Change the Path You Are On

We all read and hear that there is a shortage of healthcare workers in our workforce and the numbers leaving seem to be climbing daily. We talk about mental health, patient to provider ratios, heath system politics, and all the reasons why people are choosing to leave healthcare.

With so many healthcare workers investing so much time and money in their career path, it seems unfathomable to see them leave healthcare all together.

Perhaps there is another path to consider that would allow you to fall in love with your healthcare career again. Would you like to:

  • Meet new people
  • Serve a community that is in need of someone with your professional skills
  • Work for an employer whose mission is to MAKE YOU HAPPY and find assignments that work for you
  • Develop personally and professionally
  • Enjoy work while finding balance in your work time vs time off

These are just a few ways to change your path or course of action to avoid burnout and frustration. Leaving a facility to work for a reputable travel healthcare agency is not a “risky” decision or just for the young, single, no kids, individual.

A successful healthcare agency, along with an experienced recruitment team, can work with most healthcare professionals and match them up with assignments that work for their individual circumstances.

In the end, a healthcare professional has nothing to lose in changing their path from staff work with corporate policies, to local or national travel healthcare. The following steps need to be taken:

✔ Always send an appropriate notice in writing with a minimum of two weeks notice. Notice should be sent to the direct supervisor and HR representative.

✔ Always remain professional and diligent in the remaining days you work and prepare to leave regardless of the reasons you are leaving.

✔ Request letters of recommendation from any members of the leadership you have worked with.

Leaving on professional terms will almost certainly ensure your ability to return to that facility should you find the need to go back down the road. But many travelers leave staff work and remain traveling until they retire. Others may travel for a while, return to their “home” base facility for a while and then return to travel. Again, they are back and forth as it suits their needs.

In the rare instance a healthcare professional finds travel is just not for them, they always have the option to go back to their home base or find another facility to work as staff or truly leave healthcare all together.

You do owe it to yourself and your career to change course and explore all options before choosing to leave all together.

Why wait, let us help YOU CHANGE the PATH you are on NOW!

Want More Freedom and Flexibility in Your Career?

One week off work sounds so nice doesn’t it? What about two weeks off? Perhaps you are more of a month off kind of person. The beauty is that one size does not fit all when it comes to time off work.

Freedom and flexibility means different things to everyone. and at At Fidelity On Call, we help find the balance that works for you as an individual. The one size that fits all has never been our approach because every healthcare professional has their very own specific set of needs. Which is why travel healthcare is such a great option for so many professionals.

As we continue to post pictures our team members send us on our “It Was a GREAT Vacation!” campaign, what we have learned is that simple word, “vacation”, means many different things to people. For example, we have a lot of BEACH people. From the Caribbean to the shores of Florida we have people that love to soak in the sun and sand, and, yes, that sounds very nice. We also have team members that enjoy spending time with family. Gathering with family they normally do not get to spend much time with and soaking up every minute with them. Who can argue about that type of vacation as time well spent? We also get so busy working and living life that we let home projects go by the wayside. We have had many team members share with us that they simply took time off work to do projects around the home – from bathroom remodels to basement cleanouts to yard landscaping projects. Decluttering your living space can be so important for peace of mind!

We cannot forget travel ball and other travel sport parents that are road warriors for in order to enjoy that time with their kiddos.

“How does this type of time off happen?” you ask…

Well, it is working with a highly qualified recruiter and who negotiates on your behalf to get approved time off in a contract. Many people take time off when the contract ends.

If you want any of the above time off, that is where the magic happens, that open communication with your recruiter who is your biggest ally in your travel healthcare career. They are the key to ensuring you are working when you want to be, and not when you do not want to be or cannot be.

Where there is a will there is a way and that is the motto of all our healthcare recruiters. If it cannot work for one client or on one unit, it may very well work for another unit or another client and their job is to ensure you are where you need and want to be.

Freedom to choose your assignments and flexibility to work when you can and are able are key to work life balance and harmony in your life.

Whether a one-week beach vacation is for you or maybe just some extended time off to take care of all the things you need to, travel nursing can provide you with that benefit.

If you feel you lack freedom and flexibility in your healthcare career, reach out to one of our recruiters and they will be sure to work with you to put them both back into your routine.