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I thought of this old blog I wrote, I think it applies well here. If you find yourself not getting the growth you want here's some other ways to supplement your work and stay on track:

http://hobohealth.com/wordpress/2011/04 ... sacrifice/

James

I think that if you are going to travel as a new grad, you have your head in the right place and are asking the right questions. I definitely had the same concerns when I was starting out as a traveler - how can I be a travel PT, but also make sure I'm being mentored and growing as a professional? W...

Thanks for the question, and you raise a good point! I do know therapists that stick with on agency, and you're right in thinking that this makes their lives much simpler as far as 401k, health insurance, etc. A lot of agencies will incentivize you to stick with them for multiple assignments by offe...

Anna, Thanks so much for adding to the convo. I think this is one of the great debates in travel PT; to travel right out of school or not? Keep us updated, Anna. I think your perspective as a new grad traveling right away is a great one to have. Also! Let me know if you feel like writing a blog or t...

Home Care is a setting that is frequently open for travel PTs and other contract workers. Home Care comes with certain benefits including the flexibility of the schedule and the chance to be outdoors throughout the day when traveling between patients. However, home care also holds certain clinical c...

Here's a free resource from the Orthopaedic Section. This is a very novel, forward-looking project that is still in it's early years. The section is creating guidelines for treating the most common orthopaedic conditions based entirely on published research. Eight of these guidelines have been publi...

As a traveler, continuing education can be difficult to come by. Without a consistent employer funding it, with your practice always changing, and with the constant growth that occurs moving from setting to setting, many of us can be found guilty of falling behind on our formal CEUs. Here's two plac...

What I'm starting with here are the resources I have used for CEUs and general day-to-day references for my own treatments. These are just a few of the many, many resources out there to "bone" up on what's the latest in Ortho PT. Feel free to add to this list of resources that can serve as a resourc...

Acute care clinical practice guidelines. In depth guidelines for a variety of common conditions you will encounter on an acute care assignment.

http://www.acutept.org/associations/116 ... elines.pdf

This is a great resource put together by the Acute Care Section. Many important decisions about your treatments in acute care are based on patient lab values. This document explains each lab value and why you should care about it. There are a lot of suggested readings within this document that compl...

About to start an acute care assignment and feeling a little nervous? Don't worry! You can do it! Below I have posted some resources from APTA's Acute Care section to help you study up. Feel free to post some resources of your own!

Outpatient ortho jobs are out there and you may be asking the right question about how flexible you need to be on location. You're definitely going to find more or less needs depending on your location. I've done quite a bit of outpatient for hospitals. Many of those assignments are ortho-heavy... a...

Jennifer, I've experienced this same thing very recently. You call a staffing agency, talk for 15-20 minutes about who you are and where you'd like to go, and then don't hear from the company again for several weeks... weird! You might be a little early to be expecting a ton of assignments, but not ...

Almost forgot:

Traveling PT is awesome! Whether you do it right out of school, or shortly after, just do it!!!

James

Hey, thanks so much for checking out the site and posting up some questions here. This is what the site is all about, giving people a place to get some unbiased info on traveling PT. First off, I want to make sure you found the getting started with traveling PT page: http://hobohealth.com/wordpress/...