A Single-Hospital Study of Travel Nurses and Quality: What Is Their Impact on the Patient Experience?

Abstract

Health care providers that cannot recruit and hire the number and type of nurses they need regularly turn to travel nurses to fill clinical needs. Continued high demand for nurses, particularly experienced and specialty nurses, is expected to sustain or increase the utilization of travel nurses in hospitals and other health care facilities for the foreseeable future. With patient care quality and experience among the top priorities in the health care industry, the quality of care delivered by travel nurses is critically important.