Wanderlust, and the money to fund it, made Alex Stow’s decision easy. After working a couple of years in an intensive care unit, he signed up to be a travel nurse, tripling his pay to about $95 an hour by agreeing to help short-staffed hospitals around the country for 13 weeks at a time.
correction
The American Hospital Association represents a wide variety of hospitals, including nonprofit, for-profit, government and others. A previous version of this article said the group represents only nonprofit hospitals. The article has been corrected.
