{"id":614,"date":"2014-02-21T22:05:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-21T22:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travelnursingcentral.com\/blog\/?p=614"},"modified":"2014-02-21T22:05:00","modified_gmt":"2014-02-21T22:05:00","slug":"travel-nurses-like-olympians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travelnursingcentral.com\/blog\/travel-nurses-like-olympians\/","title":{"rendered":"How Travel Nurses are Like Olympians"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Travel Nurses Go For The Gold Every Day!<\/p><\/div>\n

The 2014 Olympics in Sochi are coming to a close this weekend. Maybe if you’re lucky enough to have worked the evening or night shift you got to catch some of my personal favorite winter sport, Curling — which was on at exclusively odd hours this time around!<\/p>\n

Seems so many of us have the Olympics on the brain, and I just came across a great blog this week on allnurses.com called Nurses Train Like Olympians<\/a>. The posts’ intro reads:<\/p>\n

“Before an athlete can enter into the Olympic ring, they must do years of extensive training. The same is true for nurses. They take rigorous prerequisites, nursing courses and clinicals, before they can enter the nursing field. Nurses train to go into many environments. Just like [sic] Olympians take their talents to the slopes, nurses train to take their skills and knowledge into many different arenas. For both there are tears, laughter, joy and few hours of sleep. But they know in the end it will all be worth it because they are following their dream!<\/i>”<\/i><\/p>\n

I thought this blog made some really fantastic comparisons. The post goes on to compare nurses and Olympians in terms of:\n<\/p>\n