COVID-19 cases driving sky-high demand — and pay packages — for traveling nurses
Before the COVID-19 pandemic, Addison Frasch worked as an intensive care nurse in his native Georgia, making about $900 a week. Now Frasch is a travel nurse on a crisis assignment at a rural hospital near El Centro that is inundated with COVID patients. The 23-year-old is earning $6,200 a week as a float ICU nurse under a statewide contract that he landed through San Diego’s Aya Healthcare. Frasch knows that he won’t be paid like this forever. His contract is lucrative in part because ICU nurses are in short supply and because the contract allows for him to be relocated to any hospital in...
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