The listings for traveling nurse job openings typically don’t explain why help is needed; they share what the organization ...

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Anna Reese, a 26-year-old travel nurse based in San Diego, California, about her job as a travel nurse. It has been edited for length and clarity.

Travel nursing in the US was debilitating ... So when my husband left me unexpectedly and my life flipped upside down, I took a nursing job in New Zealand. I was shocked at how different the ...