Brattleboro Memorial Hospital - Brattleboro, Vermont

Summer in the Green Mountain State
Fifty States Staffing Featured Travel Nurse Assignment

Southern Vermont makes for a wonderful summer travel nurse assignment, as mountain ridgelines, covered bridges and hillside farms plaster the countryside, and summertime bonfires and concerts celebrate life and community. The Vermont Festival of the Arts is one of the years’ biggest in August, and delivers a stunning array of art, music and theater performances, hands-on art and craft workshops, culinary exhibitions and stage shows that feature local talent.

A Taste of Southern Vermont

Fresh whole foods and organic farming is an age old tradition in Southern Vermont. Every summer, Green Mountain farmers and artisan food makers conjure up a veritable smorgasbord of homegrown flavors for local residents and travelers. Signature sheep’s milk cheeses are found at Vermont Shepherd Farm in Putney, while down the road at the East Hill Bison Farm, organically-raised low fat / low cholesterol Buffalo meat sells at the farmhouse.

Some of Vermont’s finest artisan breads come from the 120-acre Basin Farm in Bellows Falls, where an entire community nurtures five acres of organic spelt annually to produce high-quality flour and a variety of breads that have made Basin Farm a household name among organic bread lovers.

Brattleboro Memorial Hospital Facts

Brattleboro Memorial is a The Joint Commission certified, not-for-profit 61-bed community hospital serving Brattleboro, Vermont and the tri-state area for more than 100 years. BMH boasts more than 100 board-certified physicians who serve more than 2,000 inpatients every year, and who conduct more than 2,500 surgical procedures annually. BMH features an Emergency Department that treats 11,000 patients yearly, operates two Med / Surg floors, has a five-bed Special Care Unit for intensive and cardiac care, and a Short Stay Unit designed to care for patients who are admitted for up to 36 hours.

Housing in Brattleboro

Travel nurse housing in Brattleboro is private and conveniently located in this simple hometown community. Away from the city hustle and bustle, enjoy afternoon strolls and the lovely outdoors for keeping fit. Fifty States Staffing maintains an industry-wide reputation for providing travel nurses with top-quality furnished accommodations with pools and spas where available in the more populated cities and towns across America.   

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	Travel nursing is wonderful in that you’re afforded the time and amenities to maintain a sound mind and healthy body. Eating right, getting enough sleep and exercise all play a role in how well we cope and how fast travel nurses react. Critical to physical strength and psychological prowess are healthy internal body systems and quick-firing nerve impulses that when functioning properly can make all the difference in saving a life. How’s your diet? Diet is about what you eat when you eat it. Your body turns food it into energy like a car does gas. When the car doesn’t move; the gas just sits there—similar to how calories turn to fat when not used by the travel nurse body. Assigning a time and a purpose to certain food groups will give you the energy you need when you need it most, and let your body rest and relax when you don’t.  Do you know what your numbers are? Benchmarks for optimum travel nurse health:  Blood Pressure below 120/80  HDL – “good” cholesterol above 40  LDL – “bad” cholesterol below 100  Total cholesterol below 200  Triglyceride level below 150
	• In the morning or before your shift is the best time to eat complex carbohydrates and starchy foods like potatoes and bread. They give the body energy and will be burned as calories throughout the day. This is also a good time for travel nurses to get the protein they need to aid with muscle strength and recovery during times of physical exertion.  • On breaks, travel nurses should eat whole foods like fruit, nuts, trail mix items or natural snacks instead of candy bars to satisfy cravings and for energy. Processed sugar is one of the worst things you can put in your body and the calories in sugar are empty—meaning they have no nutritional value at all. • Stay away from the vending machines. Clinical studies continue to indicate that processed foods in excess may lead to diminished health. Travel nurses should brown-bag shift food. • During the shift, don’t eat big portions. They’ll make a travel nurse sluggish and tired. Large portions also overburden your digestive system and can lead to abdominal discomfort and cause gas and bloating. • After the shift eat a well-balanced meal, but don’t overdo the animal fat. Have a protein, a starch and a green vegetable. Now’s the time for desert. • Avoid too many CATS (caffeine, alcohol, tobacco) Coffee in excess and nicotine in general can have an adverse effect on your nervous system and your ability to think clearly—and don’t consider otherwise. As far as alcohol, one drink a day for women and two drinks for men is considered “moderate drinking” by the U.S. Departments of Health and Human Services. All three CATs can adversely affect quality sleep patterns.
		Next month we’ll talk about the benefits of getting enough sleep. Stay tuned!

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	Continued from Page 1 The healthcare industry is short about 150,000 nurses this year, a figure expected to grow five times by 2020, per federal estimates, said Podwill. State colleges and universities around the country have reported graduating 25 percent more nurses in 2006 than the year before. Enrollment is up for men too, as A National Sample Survey of Registered Nurses indicates that roughly 13 percent of students enrolled in nursing schools are males, and more than 50,000 students pursued nursing education last year. “It seems that recruitment campaigns depicting men in high tech hospital situations or portraying male nurses as heroes or lifesavers seem to be working for both schools and employers,” Podwill said, pointing to recruitment efforts by the Oregon Center for Nursing, which  feature a snowboarder and rugby player poised under the headline “Are you man enough to be a nurse?” and another from travel nurse company American Traveler, targeting rescue workers, firemen and other civil service emergency personnel. Travel nursing jobs at 50 States Staffing include free private housing, free health insurance, bonuses and reimbursements.  Travel nurses can take family and pets on the road, or choose rent subsides if they own a house or have an apartment and would like to commute to an RN travel job close to home. A career in travel nursing offers men advance practice opportunities and flexible schedules, along with generous bonuses and enough job security to have a family.  “At first it was about the money,” said 28-year-old Wisconsin male travel nurse Eric D. “But now travel nursing fits in perfectly with our goal to raise children.” About 50 States Staffing With years of experience providing hospital staffing opportunities to healthcare professionals, The Joint Commission certified 50 States Staffing provides travel nursing jobs, per diem nursing jobs, and permanent jobs to healthcare professionals in prestigious hospitals nationwide. We offer high salaries, free private housing, and top benefits to traveling nurses, physical therapists, respiratory and occupational therapists, and technologists all across the U.S.

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	Free Private Housing   Fifty States Staffing provides a comprehensive salary & bonus package to our travel nurses on assignment. Work in prestigious hospital facilities and receive top benefits such as FREE Private Housing. Our expert client service professionals will find you the job you want in your favorite city! Fifty States Staffing provides deluxe, FREE private housing on every assignment. You are encouraged to make special requests - we will do our very best to fulfill them. Travel with family, friends, pets or go solo, when Fifty States Staffing secures your housing, we will strive to accommodate even the smallest request. All housing is individually selected for each traveler -  we would like your input - so we can not only meet, but exceed your expectations!
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