Nurse Money
The money side of nursing gets explained badly, usually by someone selling something. These are plain explanations of how the rules actually work — written for nurses, by the people who built RN PocketPal.
Liability insurance
Your employer’s policy protects your employer. What it covers, what it stops at, and the one question to ask HR.
PSLF for nurses
Loan forgiveness for non-profit hospital staff — who qualifies, why agency travelers usually do not, and the one move that ends it permanently.
Travel nurse taxes
Why stipends are tax-free, the three tests that have to hold, and why the 50-mile rule is not a rule.
How Nurse Money makes money
Eventually, some of these pages will carry paid links — if you buy a policy or hire a preparer after following one, the provider pays us. That is the business model, and it is worth being blunt about it, because it creates an incentive we have to hold ourselves against.
So, the rules we are holding to:
- Every paid link is labelled as one, on the page where it appears — not in a footer nobody reads.
- We do not publish a comparison we have not actually done. Where a comparison is not ready, the page says so instead of listing whoever pays best.
- The free answer comes first. Most of what is on these pages costs you nothing to act on — asking HR one question, checking a contract date, keeping a real lease. Where the honest answer is “you do not need to buy anything,” that is what the page says.
- Nothing here touches your clinical tools. RN PocketPal’s reference and practice content is not for sale and never carries a sponsor.
None of this is tax, legal, or financial advice, and we are not licensed to give it. Your state, your license, and your contract change the answer.