Survey Finds Travel Clinicians and Locum Tenens Providers are 17% Happier Than Permanent Peers

Travel Clinicians and Locums Also Report Better Work-Life Balance

PEABODY, Mass. — Barton Healthcare Staffing (BHS), a company providing skilled travel nurses and allied health professionals, along with its affiliate Barton Associates, conducted a survey of its network of healthcare professionals and discovered that part- and full-time travel clinicians and locum tenens providers are 17% more likely to agree that they are happy in their current position than their permanent peers.

About nine in 10 travel clinicians and locum tenens providers with an opinion—including physicians, advanced practice providers (NPs/PAs), dentists, registered nurses (RNs) and allied health professionals of a wide variety of specialties—agreed they are happy in their current position. Three-quarters of permanent healthcare professionals with an opinion said the same.

The survey also found that full- and part-time travel clinicians and locum tenens providers are 32% more likely to agree that their work-life balance is satisfactory than their permanent counterparts. Roughly eight in 10 locum tenens providers and travel clinicians with an opinion say their work-life balance is satisfactory—60% of permanent providers and clinicians who answered the question reported the same.