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This week, we’re Reporting Live on: 

🚫🕒 Cutting Back on Overtime: The recent buzz on Capitol Hill is about reducing nurse burnout with new legislation to cap those never-ending shifts. We're diving into what the "Nurse Overtime and Patient Safety Act" could mean for our daily grind, patient care quality, and paychecks. 

🗺️Travel Nurse Treasure Map: Discover the goldmine with our guide to the highest-paying states and cities for travel nurses, from Alaska's icy riches to Texas' warm wealth and everywhere in between.

💉 Allergy Alert: Say hello to Xolair, the (still in development) FDA-approved game-changer for those with severe food allergies, but it isn’t cheap! 

☀️ Let’s get started.

🚫🕒 Rethinking Overtime: Finding Balance in Nursing Hours

We’ve got mixed feelings on overtime. Those extra hours per week can add up, but so do the paychecks. 🤑 

U.S. legislators from both sides of the aisle are tuning into the pulse of nurses nationwide, recognizing the burnout that comes from those marathon shifts. 

Enter the "Nurse Overtime and Patient Safety Act." It's not about banning overtime outright but setting restrictions like capping mandatory overtime, 48+ hour work weeks, and 12-consecutive-hour shifts, making sure that nurses have time to recharge. Nurses on the brink of exhaustion aren't exactly the poster children for healthcare excellence. 💁‍♀️

On one hand, it’s nice Congress is listening to thousands of nurses burning out from those endless shiftless that make us question if the sun still exists, and they’re not just sending thoughts, prayers, and “healthcare hero shoutouts” this time.

On the other hand, many nurses rely on OT to accelerate their financial and career goals, learning critical experience through more shifts per week.

🏥 So, what’s in it for you? 

Overtime is almost as common as stethoscopes and scrubs in the nursing world, and it’s often seen as a necessary evil: great for the wallet, but not so much for our sanity, health, or social lives.

🔄 We've all been in there: the allure of extra cash tempts us to pick up yet another shift despite our bodies screaming for rest. It's a short-term fix for a money crunch but hardly a sustainable strategy. 

Remember, there's only so much labor you can exchange for money until your quality of life begins to suffer too much to make it worth it. 

Overtime limits meet the apparent perks of seeing our families and friends in non-zombie mode, and we might just remember what our hobbies are. 

What's the deal? If this bill passes, most nurses can wave goodbye to those hours beyond their scheduled shifts, for better or worse. 

While working less sounds great, many nurses actually enjoy the grind (or rather, the rewards) of overtime. 

Without overtime, it’s worth thinking about alternative sources of income now. Imagine a world where you could earn more money without sacrificing every waking moment at the hospital. 

That's the promise of entrepreneurship– using your expertise not for more hours clocked in but for creating something that works for you around the clock. 

Here are a few side hustle ideas to get the wheel spinning:

💉Nurses can join a mobile IV therapy business, providing hydration, vitamins, and other nutrient-rich infusions directly to client's homes or offices– the service is becoming more popular for wellness, recovery, or even hangover treatments, offering a flexible and lucrative side hustle.

🧠Combine your nursing expertise with another passion, like nutrition or weight training, as a health coach and help people create and act on personalized wellness plans. 

📚Nurses can offer tutoring services for nursing students or conduct workshops and courses for various certifications, which could extend to launching your online courses and webinars. 

✏️Dive into the world of freelance medical writing, creating content for healthcare blogs, medical journals, educational materials, or even ghostwriting for health professionals.

Whatever you choose, whether it’s to celebrate the joys of no more overtime if or when the bill gets passed, it’s always helpful to consider your response in advance. 

*psst* Looking for new side hustles (and potentially new full-time gigs) to make money? Reply directly to this email– we read every response!

💸Nurses on the Move: Where's the Cash at?

Are you a travel nurse or pondering the nomadic nurse life?

Vivian, a healthcare career marketplace, recently put out a Travel Nurse Salary Guide highlighting the best-paying states and cities for travel nurses based on 129,406 active job postings.

💼 The scoop? Travel nurses are bagging $2,134 a week on average.

 But hold your stethoscopes— Alaska tops the charts with up to $4,059 weekly. It’s not just about stunning landscapes and moose sightings, it’s actually a pretty lucrative hotspot for travel nurses. 

Other top-ranking states throwing serious cash at travel nurses include Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and New York– just factor in the potential increased cost of living wherever tickles your fancy.  

And then there’s a city-specific breakdown, with Texas boasting two of the top-paying cities, Flower Mound and Rockwall, with paychecks that might make any travel nurse want to giddy up. 🤠

🏆 The Top-Paying States:

• Alaska: $2,660

• Maine: $2,467

• New Jersey: $2,413

• Massachusetts: $2,402

• New York: $2,386

🏙 The Top-Paying Cities:

• Flower Mound, TX: $4,216

• Santa Maria, CA: $4,015

• Rockwall, TX: $3,794

• Chester, PA: $3,671

• Greenwich, CT: $3,500

So, if you're ready to explore new places, meet new people, and fatten up your savings account, it might be time to consider becoming a travel nurse. 

Shoot us an email if you’d like to learn more, we can help! 

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🥜 Peanut Allergy? It’s Gonna Cost Ya!

The FDA has given the thumbs up to Xolair (omalizumab), an injectable designed to dial down severe allergic reactions from accidental food encounters.

It targets those pesky IgE-mediated reactions that can cause anaphylaxis, asthma, or rhinitis, as seen with people with serious peanut allergies. 

This allergy ally is costly, with monthly price tags projected to range from $2,900 for kids to $5,000 for adults. 

But considering the stakes ( 30,000 ER visits and 150 allergy-related fatalities annually in the US), it might make sense for those at risk to aim to make those moments less terrifying. 

The clinical trial wheels are still spinning, with results expected by 2026.