What we publish

We focus on practical, nurse-aware education: assignment questions, pay-package clarity, housing safety, recruiter scripts, city-fit prompts, community field notes, and between-assignment planning checklists.

  • Questions to ask before signing, paying, traveling, or assuming a detail is handled.
  • Checklists that help readers organize conversations with recruiters, agencies, hosts, and qualified professionals.
  • Community lessons that are moderated for privacy, usefulness, and claim risk before publication.

What we do not do

We do not provide legal, tax, medical, financial, licensing, or insurance advice. We also do not publish unverified claims about laws, rates, facilities, agencies, insurers, or professional licensing rules.

  • No patient information, clinical guidance, or medical recommendations.
  • No tax, stipend, contract-law, landlord-tenant, licensing, or insurance advice.
  • No hard-sell coverage pitch. Coverage Gap Review language stays educational and contextual.
  • No facility or agency accusations without careful verification and review.

How Mara Quinn is used

Mara Quinn is the editorial creator voice behind The Roaming Nurse. She gives the site a consistent, practical, checklist-driven tone: the nurse friend who asks, “Did they put that in writing?” We do not use Mara to invent credentials, employers, patient stories, legal authority, insurance authority, or clinical authority.

How claims are handled

Claims involving laws, taxes, licensing, staffing rules, healthcare regulations, insurance, benefits, pay statistics, or specific facilities/agencies require official or qualified-source verification before they are treated as publishable facts.

  • Licensing: verify with state boards, Nursys/NCSBN, or other official sources.
  • Tax/stipend topics: avoid advice and point readers to qualified tax professionals or official sources.
  • Insurance/benefits topics: keep language educational and refer product-specific questions to qualified professionals.
  • Community stories: publish practical lessons, not private details, protected information, or unsupported allegations.

The Roaming Nurse publishes practical education, not legal, tax, medical, financial, licensing, or insurance advice. Product-specific or coverage-specific questions should go to a qualified professional.