Travel nurse housing

[Chris Egan]

Has anyone in Omaha used their furnished rental for travel nurse housing? I have a furnished unit that I am using as an airbnb and it has done fairly well but wanted to see if there where some other options out there. This unit is with in a few miles of 3 major hospitals so I thought this might be another option and wanted to see if anyone else in the Omaha area has tried this route and if so what did you use to advertise?

[Ellen Griffith]

Ex travel nurse here. 

There are a LOT of travel nurse companies so you can't call the housing departments of them all. I would recommend calling the staffing offices of the hospitals you mention and ask them what travel companies they use. (They usually have a few favorites, and it's easier for a hospital to keep dealing with the same company). Tell them why you want to know. Tell them you have housing available. The hospital/travel company/nurses would all be relieved to have the housing booking process streamlined. Imagine being a nurse, usually a woman, usually alone, renting a place to live sight-unseen in a strange city. 

When I traveled with my RN husband, we each got $3000/month housing/living stipend. We could have booked a pretty swanky pad. (But we lived in a 5th wheel, paid off our house back home, and paid off our student loans.)