Choose how your practicedevelops next
You may be looking for a different patient population or a place to develop the work you already do. Our advanced practice team considers your scope alongside what you want from a role, so the conversation stays close to the clinical work you want to do and the life you want around it.
Where opportunities take shape
The roles we discuss with you come from our work with hospitals, clinics and other care organizations. These are some of the teams we work with.
Ways to work in advanced practice
A permanent position and a locums assignment carry different commitments. Consider which suits the way you want to practice.
Join another practice
Work with a practice or hospital service for weeks or months, with the assignment planned with you before your first day.
See locums rolesShifts you choose
Pick up clinic sessions or hospital shifts near home, as often as suits you.
See per diem rolesA run of weeks, close to home
A set contract within reach of home, in a clinic, a hospital service or a surgery center.
See local contractsA new city for a season
Assignments in another part of the country, commonly 13 weeks, planned with you from the first conversation to your first day.
See travel rolesA permanent place in a practice
A permanent role in a practice you’ve chosen, with us making the introduction and staying in the conversation until you start.
See permanent roles
Let’s talk about your clinical interests
Tell us which parts of your practice you want to develop.
Join our talent networkRoles acrossadvanced practice
Your scope gives a role its boundaries; your clinical interests help give it direction. Explore the work within advanced practice.
Family nurse practitioner
Primary care · Urgent care · Retail clinics · Telehealth
A patient panel you get to know through routine visits and ongoing care.
The role can look different across state lines, depending on the practice authority and collaboration required.
See FNP rolesAcute care nurse practitioner
Hospital medicine · ICU · Specialty services
Hospital care for acutely ill adults, with decisions continuing from admission into rounds.
Your hospital privileges determine which procedures and orders are part of the role.
See AGACNP rolesPsychiatric mental health nurse practitioner
Inpatient psych · Outpatient · Telepsychiatry · Correctional health
Assessment and medication management across an ongoing course of psychiatric care.
Work can take you into outpatient and inpatient settings, as well as telepsychiatry and correctional care.
See PMHNP roles
Physician assistant
Emergency · Surgery · Orthopedics · Hospital medicine
Generalist training, applied to the specialty you want to practice in.
The collaborative or supervisory arrangement depends on the state where you practice.
See PA-C rolesCertified registered nurse anesthetist
Hospital OR · Ambulatory surgery · Obstetrics · Pain management
Anesthesia care spanning preoperative assessment and recovery.
State and facility supervision requirements both help define how you work within an assignment.
See CRNA rolesCertified nurse-midwife
Labor and delivery · Birth centers · Women’s health clinics
Relationships with patients through pregnancy, birth and the weeks after delivery.
When care spans clinic and hospital, your birth privileges help define the work in each setting.
See CNM rolesWhat we hold to as a practice
You’re weighing a clinical responsibility as well as a career move. Clinicians help guide our practice and the way we work with you.
Advice that understands scope
An advanced practice advisor on our board shapes how we work with NPs, PAs, CRNAs and CNMs. Scope, supervision and prescriptive authority vary by state and facility, and the advice you receive accounts for each.
Roles matched to your practice
We consider the patient population and level of independence in each role alongside the clinical interests you want to develop. The roles you weigh fit the practice you intend to grow into.
The gap between assignments, planned
For many advanced practice clinicians, the time between assignments matters as much as the assignment itself. Conversations that begin early let your next role take shape before the current one ends.
Every way to practice
Our advanced practice team covers locums, per diem, contracts and permanent roles. You can build a year from shorter assignments or settle into one practice, and change direction as your career develops.
Clinicians on their work with us
Clinicians share experiences across advanced practice.
“My recruiter listened to me, but she wasn’t pushy. She gave me a lot of options, and she didn’t overwhelm me with calls. She took what I was looking for in the area and did her research on it. It wasn’t just, ‘Here’s the interview. Go ahead.’ She took time to research different areas and how it personally would affect me, not just work-wise, but how I would be able to live in this new city.”
“The locum career gives people a huge ability to have that schedule flexibility, so if you want to be doing mission trips, volunteer work, you can structure your schedule. But there’s also massive opportunities for assignments.”
“With locum tenens, you get to experience a lot of different places and people, but it’s not permanent. If it’s someplace that doesn’t fit, you get to leave, but if it is a good fit, maybe you can extend or even go permanent there.”
“I had a great experience working with Advantra Health, specifically with my recruiter. I am a new grad AGACNP who was having trouble finding an NP job in a tough market. My recruiter was able to work with me and helped to sell my RN background and NP clinical experience enough to a well-known hospital that was only considering NP’s with at least 1 year of NP experience to give me a shot at an interview. I managed to impress the team enough for them to extend an offer to me, which my recruiter also helped to negotiate a generous salary. My recruiter is a very friendly, laid back, and understanding guy! He truly cares about his clients and helping them find a position that fits their needs and it shows! I would without a doubt recommend him to anyone needing assistance finding an NP position and I would definitely work with him again should I need help with finding another position in the future.”
“I didn’t know much about Advantra Health when I started, but now I can’t see myself working for another locum tenens company. What you guys do is next level, definitely the best.”
“I really enjoyed working for Advantra Health for the first assignment. They were responsive, made my problems their problems and worked with me to solve them.”
Stories from advanced practice
A career can develop across different practices. Read about the choices between assignments.
All advanced practice stories
Planning a first locums assignment
Preparing to use your scope in a different practice.
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Building time off between contracts
Planning for the weeks you want to keep free between assignments.
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Choosing assignments around the seasons
Considering the place you want to live alongside the work you’ll do.
Read the storyQuestions advanced practice clinicians ask us
Have another question? We’d be glad to talk it through.
Yes. Locums and travel roles are open to NPs, PAs, CRNAs and CNMs, in hospitals, clinics and telehealth, alongside local and permanent roles.
Most locums roles ask for at least 1 year in your specialty, since you step in with less orientation than a permanent hire. Each job page lists what that facility requires.
Yes. NPs practice independently in full practice states and under a collaborative agreement in others. PAs work under a supervision or collaboration agreement set by each state. Prescribing also needs that state’s authority and a DEA registration. We look at what each state allows before a role goes forward.
Plan on 2 to 4 months for a hospital role, depending on the state license and the facility’s own approval process. We set the start date with you from the first conversation.
Rarely. Many NPs and PAs use locums to try a setting or region first, and some facilities offer permanent roles to clinicians who have covered for them.