The hustle and bustle of an emergency room is like no other, and as an emergency room technician, the ER is where you thrive.
But you’re feeling like it’s time for a change of scenery.
We don’t mean changing specialties. Instead, you want to take your job on the road and become a travel ER tech.
As a travel ER tech, you can still experience the fulfillment of your job — all while visiting new states, cities, and healthcare facilities. Learn how to become a travel ER tech and everything that comes with the job here.
Table of Contents
- What Is a Travel ER Tech?
- 3 Benefits of Working as a Travel ER Tech
- How To Become a Travel ER Tech: A Look at Education, Licensing, Training and Certifications, Demand, and Earning Potential
- Start Your Travel ER Tech Journey With Pronto
What Is a Travel ER Tech?
A travel ER tech, sometimes referred to as an Emergency Medical Technician (EMT), travels to different hospitals to provide basic immediate medical care and attention to patients who enter the hospital through the emergency room. As part of the job, travel ER techs:
- Assess patient symptoms and conditions
- Triage patients
- Monitor vital signs and machines
- Collect any necessary specimens
- Stock medical supplies and equipment
- Communicate with families for updates on patient conditions
- Advocate for patients
Often under the supervision of doctors and nurses, travel ER techs can also assist in treatments and procedures.
Sounds similar to a staff ER tech, right?
As a travel ER tech, you’ll fill the needs of hospitals across the country that are understaffed or have a high demand for ER techs, doing these very same tasks. As an allied health travel professional, you can temporarily work in hospitals experiencing staff shortages and in need of travel ER techs.
Search on Pronto for potential ER travel tech jobs with a few simple clicks. Get started today.
3 Benefits of Working as a Travel ER Tech
#1: Job Flexibility
Is your family taking a month-long European vacation this summer? You won’t have to miss it.
Do you have to take a week off for a destination wedding? Easy enough.
Are you in need of some time away from the hectic atmosphere of the ER? Take it.
As a travel ER tech, you have the flexibility to take time off from work when you need it. You can:
- Accept contracts to work around the time you need off
- Pause on beginning a new contract when one ends
- Extend a contract if you enjoyed the position
- Work back-to-back contracts for extra money:
- And more
The choice is yours.
As a travel ER tech with Trusted Nurse Staffing, our team of recruiters will help you plan contracts around your schedule so you can work as much or as little as you’d like.
#2: Professional Growth and Mentorship
Accepting contracts at various facilities around the country is great for your personal and professional growth and your resume.
As you work in different facilities, you’ll experience new technologies, new systems, diverse ways of thinking, and more. And, as you interact and form relationships with top people in your field, you’ll not only grow as an ER tech but also create lifelong friends and mentors you can count on.
#3: Opportunities To Travel
You might love your job as an ER tech but feel as if you’re always confined to the four walls of the emergency room. And when you’re not, you’re doing housework or catching up on your sleep.
When you accept traveling ER tech jobs, you get to experience new parts of the country in your downtime.
With allied health travel jobs, you can get paid to travel and be fulfilled by your work, helping care for patients who need it.
Trusted Nurse Staffing has a dedicated and reliable team that can help you fulfill both dreams of traveling and working as an ER tech simultaneously. Reach out to get started with the process today.
How To Become a Travel ER Tech: A Look at Education, Licensing, Training and Certifications, Demand, and Earning Potential
Education
To become a certified ER tech a high school diploma or equivalent is required. Some hospitals might require an associate’s degree, but many agree a certificate will suffice.
You should consider taking high school classes that will prepare you with the skills you need to be a successful ER tech, including:
- Anatomy
- Biology
- Math
- English
Licensing
As a travel ER tech, every state follows its own licensing procedures. As an allied health professional with Trusted Nurse Staffing, our team will help guide you through licensing for every contract.
Additionally, most states require you to pass the National Registry of Emergency Medical Technicians certification exam.
Trainings and Certifications
You’ll be required to complete Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) training to prepare for your job as an ER tech. The training is typically 120–150 hours and teaches many life support techniques like:
- Bandaging wounds
- CPR
- Applying tourniquets
- First aid
- Resuscitation
Basic Life Support certification is usually a prerequisite, too. This 4-hour, CPR-focused course teaches:
- How to perform CPR
- The chain of survival
- How to use an AED
- Wound care
- How to save someone with a compromised airway
Demand
Because the healthcare industry needs flexible, skilled professionals to fill short-term staffing gaps for emergency technicians, the demand for skilled and qualified travel ER techs exists.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics forecasts a 6% growth in employment for EMTs (where ER techs are categorized) from 2023 to 2033.
Demands are expected to increase during peak sick seasons or outbreaks of illness.
Earning Potential
According to ZipRecruiter, travel ER techs make an average salary of $816 per week in the United States.
The top ten cities with the highest-paying travel ER tech jobs include:
- Nome, AK: $1,012 per week
- Berkeley, CA: $994 per week
- North Slope, AK: $980 per week
- San Francisco, CA: $961 per week
- Santa Clara, CA: $958 per week
- Sunnyvale, CA: $957 per week
- Livermore, CA: $957 per week
- San Jose, CA: $956 per week
- Richmond, CA: $951 per week
- Daly City, CA: $945 per week
Start Your Travel ER Tech Journey With Pronto
Have we convinced you it’s beneficial to work as a travel ER tech? Start your career as an allied health professional working various travel ER tech jobs around the country today.
When you use Pronto, you can easily search for available travel ER tech jobs that fit your needs. Filter your search by where, when, and how long you’d like to work, choose an assignment, and let your recruiter at Trusted Nurse Staffing help you navigate your contract.
To get started, follow these steps:
- Sign up for Pronto and complete your profile. You’ll be prompted to upload your resume, licenses, certifications, and more.
- Get automatically matched with a Trusted Nurse Staffing recruiter who will guide you through your job search and applications and recommend placements based on your preferences.
Then pack your bags and head to your destination. Once you start an assignment, you’ll get matched with your own team of experts who include:
- Compliance experts who assist you with all necessary facility- and state-specific licensing and testing at no cost to you.
- Payroll experts who are easy to contact and are dedicated to answering any questions regarding payroll or salary.
- Recruitment experts who will advocate for you throughout your assignment and are available to support you and keep you on track for your ongoing assignments.
At Trusted Nurse Staffing, we also offer additional perks, including:
- A welcome box
- $1500 bonus for referring your friends or a facility we are not already working with
- An ambassador program where they can get rewarded for making UGC
- And more
Get ready to begin your allied health travel ER tech experience with Trusted Nurse Staffing. Sign up for Pronto today.