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Traveling nurses get high pay but some find it difficult to work locally

Published February 7, 2022 at 10:52 AM PST

A nurse who left her hospital job for much higher wages as a traveling nurse found the lifestyle hard on her family.

But as Blake Farmer of WPLN reports, permanent jobs don’t pay much better than they did pre-pandemic.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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