Ivan Gan is an assistant professor of communication studies at the University of Houston-Downtown. He earned his Ph.D. from Texas A&M University. Prior to receiving an M.A. in organizational communication, I earned a J.D. from the University of New South Wales and a graduate diploma in legal practice from the Australian National University. His research areas: conflict management in nursing teams; nurses’ careers and work arrangements; nurse management and leadership communication; and basic research on negotiations.
Travel nurses take short-term contracts that can require long commutes or temporarily living away from home. Time and again, they have to get used to new co-workers, new protocols and new workplaces. So why would staff nurses quit their stable jobs to become travel nurses? Well, for one, they get bigger paychecks. But U.S. nurses […]
