Their Story
Emily Chen
OR Nurse · Level I Trauma · Portland, OR
12
Assignments completed
7
States worked
2 days
Time to first offer
“I've worked with six agencies over seven years. Luvo is the only one where my recruiter knew my specialty well enough to actually filter out the bad fits.”
Starting out
Emily started her career in a Level I trauma center in Philadelphia. The pace was intense and she loved it, but after four years she wanted to experience different OR environments — different surgeons, different protocols, different patient populations.
Years on the road
She's been traveling since 2019 and has worked in seven states. The hardest part was never the clinical work — it was the agency side. Slow responses, vague pay packages, and recruiters who didn't understand the difference between a cardiac OR and a general surgery suite.
Finding Luvo
Emily found Luvo after a particularly frustrating contract extension fell through with her previous agency. She submitted her profile and her recruiter reached out the same afternoon. The first question he asked was about her sub-specialty preference — something no recruiter had asked before.
On assignment
She's been at a Level I trauma center in Portland for four months, working in their neuro and orthopedic ORs. The facility requested an extension after her first eight weeks, and her recruiter handled the paperwork before she even had to ask. She describes it as the first time the agency side of travel nursing hasn't felt like a second job.
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