Burned-out nurses are swapping their hospital jobs for travel shifts. They're paid around 50% more than staff nurses, but life on the road can be tough.

In some cases, staff nurses are leaving and then coming back as travel nurses for double, or triple the pay.

The drop in pay doesn’t mean, however, that travel nurses are going to head back to staff jobs. The short-lived travel nurse boom was a temporary fix for a long-term decline in the profession ...