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Editor's Opinion: Healthcare travel hobbies
The great outdoors
Aug 1, 2010
By: Steve Mullett
Healthcare Traveler


Steve Mullett
Among the many benefits to the traveling healthcare lifestyle is that if you have an outdoor hobby of some sort, you can continually indulge it in new places. Whether you like skydiving, fishing, canoeing, biking, golfing, skiing, or any of dozens of out-of-the-house activities, healthcare travel allows you to try it in different settings as often as you like.

In our cover story this month ("Call of the Wild,") you'll meet some traveling healthcare professionals who are taking advantage of their profession in just that manner. Among the travelers who writer Jennifer Samuels spoke to are a nurse who takes her cross-country skis and her mountain bike with her to every assignment; an occupational therapist whose many outdoor pursuits include skydiving and white-water rafting; a skydiving nurse who says the first thing she does upon starting a new assignment is check out the local drop zones; a nurse who recently completed a triathlon; and a nurse who hiked the Appalachian Trail from Georgia to Maine a couple of years ago.

Our secondary feature ("Sizing Up Standards,") deals with the sometimes-confusing process of credentialing, specifically what has changed in that regard in recent years. Writer Anne Baye Ericksen conducts a sort of roundtable discussion of staffing industry representatives and a seasoned traveler to talk about what is expected of travelers in terms of clinical skills and certification.




I would be remiss if I failed to mention one other thing about this month's issue, and in this case, I will be pointing to something that is not here—the name of our former publisher, Cary Jon Lederman, in the masthead next to this editorial. Cary has been involved with Healthcare Traveler since 1997, starting as an advertising representative and working his way up to publisher. He has said he is not ready to call himself "retired," but he will at least for the near future be living as a retired person, and I'd like to take this opportunity to wish him well and thank him for his service. We'll miss you, Cary.

Steve Mullett
Editor-in-Chief
smullett@advanstar.com

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Steve Mullett

Steve Mullett is Editor-in-Chief of Healthcare Traveler magazine. Articles by Steve Mullett

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