Highway Hypodermics: Your Road Map to Travel Nursing [Paperback]

Epstein LaRue (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 2005 | ISBN-10: 1932993169 | ISBN-13: 978-1932993165

According to a report by the United States government, there will be a demand for more than one million additional nurses in hospitals and other health care facilities by the year 2010. As the nursing shortages grow, so does the popularity of travel nursing. So many nurses have so many questions. Don’t take a shot in the dark down the highway of travel nursing! Find your answers in HIGHWAY HYPODERMICS: YOUR ROAD MAP TO TRAVEL NURSING. Epstein LaRue answers questions including: **What qualifications do I have to be a travel nurse? **What travel company is right for me? **What can I expect once I get out there? **How do I keep track of all my tax information? **How can I make rational decisions about travel locations?

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

Highway Hypodermics: Your Road Map To Travel Nursing by Epstein LaRue is chock full of practical tips on all aspects of travel nursing. If you have even the slightest interest in becoming a travel nurse, this is one book that you must have!

Kristie Leigh Maguire
Owner of Star Publish

About the Author

The writing world calls her Epstein LaRue, but reality calls her "Kay." No matter what you know her by, she is a lady of many talents. She has been a nurse since 1992, and has worked on medical, surgical, emergency, telemetry, step-down, rehabilitation, and psychiatric units.

Travel nursing is a dream that has become a reality. Although originally from Goodwell, Oklahoma, she now calls Lake Havasu City, Arizona her home when she isn't traveling around the United States with her husband and homeschooled child in a travel trailer. Step into her world and shoot yourself down the road with Highway Hypodermics.

Product Details

• Paperback: 148 pages
• Publisher: Star Publish (January 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1932993169
• ISBN-13: 978-1932993165
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,851,545 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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16 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Don't waste your fifteen bucks!, May 22, 2005

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Mary Schultz "cardiac RN" (Palo Alto, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Highway Hypodermics: Your Road Map to Travel Nursing (Paperback)

This book doesn't have much information on travel nursing. The writing is absolutely terrible. The grammar and spelling errors are so bad that it's difficult to read at times and makes you wonder how it ever got published. It's as if it was never edited. The author talks way too much about her own experiences and in a weird way. She talks for six pages about her travel assignments in Arizona, including detailed descriptions of every golf course in the area (not a short list) The descriptions of the areas and hospitals she's been to are not even helpful, they sound like tourist brochures. For instance, a line from the book "King City, California...a big adventure in a small community." Who cares, I want information on travel nursing, that's why I bought the book. Trust me, the only thing this book is good for is a laugh. And it also makes you realize the anyone in America can get a book published. Buy Shalon Kearney's "Hitting the Road." It has much more information and commonsense.

8/28/08
I'd like to apologize to Epstein for the above review. I saw she had a new version of her book and happened across my review and realized how mean and uncalled for it was. It got me thinking and I took the book back off the shelf and read most of it again. I can see how it might be somewhat useful to a brand new traveler, especially considering the EXTREME shortage of objective information out there for/about travel nurses. I think that was my biggest beef with this book, I didn't feel like it was objective. I felt like it was more of a journal of her personal experience as a traveler rather than a guide. The review I gave was a product of frustration at not finding the information I needed/wanted as a traveler. Now after 3 years as a traveler, I continue to be frustrated by the lack of accurate information out there. So much of the information we travelers get is sponsored by the agencies that profit from us, and doesn't always lead us down the right path. That is why I had such high expectations for this book, I thought it was going to be the first objective reference for travelers and was disappointed. It didn't meet my expectations but I shouldn't have left such a nasty review. I'll probably buy the newest version just to see the differences.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Book, Written By Someone Who Is Out There!, May 23, 2005

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John (Tulsa, OK, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Highway Hypodermics: Your Road Map to Travel Nursing (Paperback)

This book is packed with wonderful information about travel nursing. Written by a nurse out there on the road, about what it is really like to be out there on the road.

This book not only gives you informaton about locations and hospitls, but most valuable information about travel nursing compaies.

The most up to date book out there on travel nursing.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Well organized., January 30, 2006

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M. B. rn "markbru" (anderson, sc United States) - See all my reviews
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I have just recieved this book and am about to start my first travel nurse assignment . I felt compelled to write this review because I don't feel the criticism heaped on it by "Mary Schultz RN " is warranted . The book appears well organized and echos what travelers I have talked to have told me . I would like to get Shalon Kearney book as well but the $110.00 price is alittle steep !