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UW Health has created an “internal nurse traveler” program aimed at filling open shifts and retaining existing employees.
Through the program, launched earlier this year, nurses working at UW Health can pick up an extra shift per week for six weeks and get paid an additional $100 per hour above the base pay rate for that shift.
UW Health Chief Nurse Executive Rudy Jackson says this progra...