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New VA "Travel Nurse Corps" Hits the Road

To deal with a nationwide shortage of nurses and to improve the quality of care for veterans, the VA has created a "Travel Nurse Corps" enabling VA nurses to travel and work throughout the Department's medical system. The Travel Nurse Corps, headquartered at the Phoenix VA health care system, is beginning as a three-year pilot program. Initially, it will place as many as 75 nurses at VA medical centers across the country. The goals of the program are to improve recruitment, decrease turnover of experienced nurses and maintain high standards of patient care.

Under the program, participating nurses may be temporarily assigned to distant medical centers and clinics to help nursing staffs with ...

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