Alejandro Moreno (MBA 1988) is CEO of Nightingale Nurses, a service that provides traveling nurses to hospitals and health care facilities across the United States. In this interview, he talks about the advantages of flexibility and the rewards of specialized caregiving.

“Nightingale Nurses is based in Boca Raton, Florida, and we service all 50 states with what are known as traveling nurses. Our role is to provide the nurses that the hospitals, for one reason or another, cannot find on their own so they can properly take care of their patients in their respective hospitals. A traveling nurse is a nurse that will go from one place to another. Typically, it is someone that will come in from outside the area, and that is the reason the hospitals cannot really find them because they are not available locally. So we are able to recruit and source them from anywhere in the United States.

“For the hospitals, it gives them the ability to have a temporary worker that can fill in for absenteeism, for someone who is out on maternity leave, for temporary census increases and it allows them to hire the person to do the job and not have to hire and fire a particular nurse. The nurses like it because they are able to do different assignments. They are able to travel the country. They are able to go to large hospitals, small hospitals, and it gives them a lot of freedom at a higher pay than a traditional full-time nursing job.

“Our company motto is to do good, and that's what we tell our nurses, what we tell our staff, and the real focus of the company. We get letters from patients—I received one about a year ago from a patient who is eternally grateful. It was a heartwarming letter from a patient who was treated very specially by our nurse. I think the primary advantage of HBS is your ability to think on your own, to analyze situations and to be able to have the confidence to pursue your dreams and your goals.”

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