Intro to Travel Therapy

Travel therapy offers some of the highest compensation in rehab, yet it remains one of the most logistically challenging practice areas. Succeeding on the road requires a distinct mindset shift, balancing clinical flexibility with savvy career management.

Whether you are eyeing your first contract or looking to refine your travel strategy, this course walks you through the essential day-to-day considerations of a nomadic career. We will dive into three overarching questions:

• Logistics: How do you strategically decide where to go next?

• Clinical Readiness: How do you prepare for the “sink or swim” demands of hopping between facilities?

• Empowerment: How do you ensure you are being paid fairly in a competitive industry?

You’ll leave this session more confident in navigating the travel market and delivering high-quality care in any setting. Joining us is Laura Latimer, OTR/L, founder of Nomadicare. After discovering a massive pay gap in her own contracts, Laura transitioned from traveler to industry advocate. She is a gifted mentor, and her hard-earned knowledge will leave you feeling empowered to take charge of your career.

1. You will identify how to select and implement occupation-based assessments when transitioning to a new travel therapy setting.

2. You will be able to recognize how to adapt occupation-based interventions to maintain high-quality care despite the rapid onboarding of a travel contract.

• Intro

• Discussion

  1. Tell me your story of how you found OT and travel therapy.

  2. What made you interested in the inner workings of the therapy industry?

  3. Walk me through how a travel position gets posted into the world- and ultimately connected to a therapist.

  4. What are the logistics of signing a travel therapy contract- what should I consider. (What are red flags)

  5. Walk me through the logistics of how I get from my home to up and going in a travel therapy location?

  6. What personal qualities help someone succeed in travel therapy?

  7. What clinical skills help a travel therapist succeed? How can we maintain evidenced-based standards- when we only have like 24 hours to learn a whole new hospital system?

  8. How can individual therapists advocate for themselves for improved working conditions (either with new locations or their agency.)

  9. How would you like to see the travel therapy continue to evolve overtime?

• Live Q&A

• Closing

• Exploring Reasons for Satisfaction with Job Assignments Among Travel Nurses

• A National Study of Travel and Nontravel Nurses’ Perceptions of the Work Environment

• Limitations and Recommendations for Advancing the Occupational Therapy Workforce Research Worldwide: Scoping Review and Content Analysis of the Literature

• Increased Utilization of Overtime and Agency Nurses and Patient Safety

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Speaker interests: Laura Latimer is the founder of Nomadicare, a travel therapy recruiting service.