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Jeri Winley-Smalls

Veteran Travel Nurse Recruiter • Founding Voice at Travel Nurse 911

Twenty five years in travel nurse recruiting, focused on fairness, clarity, and putting nurses first in an industry that too often forgets them.

Focus Contracts, pay, licensing
Experience 25+ years travel nursing
Writes about First contract, compliance, stipends

About

Jeri helped create TravelNurse911 from its earliest days and brings twenty five years of travel nurse recruiting experience. She has spent her career working directly with travel nurses through contract decisions, crisis assignments, and life changing career moves. Her perspective is shaped by thousands of real conversations with travelers navigating pay, housing, licensing, and workplace challenges far from home. Jeri believes recruitment should be rooted in honesty, advocacy, and long term relationships, not pressure or volume.

At TravelNurse911, she focuses on helping nurses understand how the system actually works so they can make informed, confident decisions about their careers.

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