What Your Significant Other Wants to Know About Your Locum Tenens Assignment

What Your Significant Other Wants to
Know About Your Locum Tenens Assignment
If you’re a locum tenens clinician, accepting a new assignment can be a big decision. Add in a temporary relocation for
an extended locum tenens assignment, and the decision can get more complicated. If you’re married or in a serious
relationship, you’re not the only one making it!
Your significant other probably plays a role in all important decisions in your life, including those with your locum tenens
career. Whether you’re relocating together for an assignment or they remain home while you’re away, traveling for
work isn’t always easy when you have a family to consider. In our discussions with the clinicians we help place, questions
frequently come up from their significant others. Here are some of the most common ones.
3 Questions Your Significant Other Has (and the Answers When You Work with VISTA)
1. “How involved am I expected to be in the process?”
The short answer is, it depends. If you have children and are considering temporarily relocating your family during your
assignment, your partner’s involvement could be a lot more critical than, for example, if you were relocating just the
two of you.
Especially when it means a long-term assignment or temporary relocation, locum tenens work can come with a lot of
conversation with your loved ones. But that doesn’t mean you have to figure it all out. With VISTA, you have access to a
recruiter and full-time travel department to help with the logistics.
2. “What’s covered?”
You and your significant other may both want to understand what expenses are involved in getting started with your
next locum tenens assignment. For instance, are you on your own for booking flights and hotels? What about travel
from the airport, or car rental services?
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VISTA covers the costs and handles the arrangements of a clinician’s travel and accommodations for all assignments
placed through us. Travel for additional people such as spouses and significant others is not covered, but we’re here to
lend our expertise to make sure everyone gets where they’re going comfortably and safely (including pets!). We take
your travel and lodging preferences into consideration, and our full-time travel department is always on-call if issues or
questions come up.
3. “What's the community like?”
Doing some online research can give you a feel for some things about the place you’ll be working. What type of people
live in this community? Will you like it there? Are there community activities and events to participate in? A little
research up front can start your assignment off on the right foot.
Get more of your questions about locum tenens answered—click below to download FAQs of first-time locum tenens
clinicians. Or, get started by visiting our job board.
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