Finding short-term travel housing as a nurse can be a huge challenge.

This is especially true in more rural and remote areas where there just aren't a lot of rental options.

Another problem with short-term housing is that there just isn't as much of it.

There are generally plenty of rentals that you can rent for a lease term of six months or a year. But traveling nurses often aren't staying in the same location for an entire six months.

They may spend three, four, or five months in one location, and then bounce to a different location in an entirely different state.

So what can you do to actually find housing as a traveling nurse?

This is a great question.

And in this post, you're going to learn five tips for how to do exactly that.

1. Do An Internet Search

Let's start with the basics.

Type in “short term housing,” or “corporate housing,” and then enter your location, and see what the Internet gives you.

This can give you a pretty decent overview of the types of prices you're going to be seeing, and the different options that are immediately available to you.

You may come up with options like Apartments.com and/or Airbnb.

And sometimes, these can give you a workable starting point.

The problem is that this may not always yield very satisfactory results.

So let's discuss a few different ideas.

2. Use A Booking Service Like Hotel Engine

Hotel Engine is a corporate hotel booking site that helps traveling professionals book hotel rooms at cheaper rates.

They also provide all kinds of other awesome services.

They've actually published a guide on this exact topic, which you can find here: Hotel Engine's Traveling Nurse Housing Guide.

Check out their guide and their services to see if they can find you a short-term housing option in the area you’re planning to travel to.

3. Travelers Haven

Travelers Haven provides on-demand housing for traveling professionals in remote locations.

This service is a bit more in-depth than most other short-term housing options, in the sense that they will actually source a location for you—making the process easier than ever.

You can check out how they do this by visiting their website.

It just might be the way to go!

4. Look At Extended Stay Hotels

Sometimes, extended stay hotels can give you a decent short-term housing option that will also provide a range of cool amenities.

Not everyone likes the idea of an extended stay hotel because they’re sometimes just a little bit too ‘hotel-like’ and not ‘homey’ enough. And this can lead to homesickness.

However, you may be surprised at some of the awesome extended stay hotel options that exist in more rural areas.

It's definitely worth checking out, at the very least.

5. Get Local

If all of these other tips have yielded no results, you may have to dig to an even deeper level to find what you're looking for.

Consider calling some contacts within the city you plan to travel to, to see if they can point you in the proper direction.

You could call the Chamber of Commerce, the Housing Authority, contacts at the hospital you plan to travel to, and/or even local apartment management companies to see if they could potentially help you out at all.

You never know who may be able to help you with a solution to your problem.

In super small towns and very remote locations, it may be just a matter of tracking the right person down and asking the right questions

Conclusion

Hopefully, these five tips will help you to solve your problem of finding short-term housing as a traveling nurse.

Being a traveling nurse is not easy—but these tips can help you to find housing that actually works for you, that'll help you to feel at home instead of leaving you out in the cold with inhospitable housing options that don't really fit your goals.

All that's left now is to get out there and make it happen.

You can do this. Your job is incredibly important, and we believe in you.

Using these five tips, you should be able to sort out the problem in relatively short order.