Travel
to Hawaii!
Enjoy
the tropical locale of Hawaii and earn great pay with Favorite!
Looking
for an assignment that’s truly different? How about
tropical Hawaii? Currently FHS has openings in facilities
on the islands of Kauai and Oahu.
While
Kauai's reputation as home to the wettest spot on Earth —
Mount Wai'ale'ale, averaging 485 inches of rain per year —
has lead to its popular designation as "The Garden Isle,"
the island has another, older name: "The Separate Kingdom."
The oldest of the main Hawaiian Islands, it is believed the
volcano that created Kauai first began erupting some 10 million
years ago. Once rising more than 10,000 feet above sea level,
Olokele Volcano has since eroded down to two main peaks —
Wai'ale'ale (5,148 feet) and Kawaikini (5,243 feet) —
with the rest of the mountain sinking to form the crater that
is home to Alaka'i Swamp. Alaka'i Swamp is the largest high-elevation
swamp in the world and the starting point for Waimea River,
the longest river in the Islands. The 3,000-foot-deep Waimea
Canyon, dubbed "The Grand Canyon of the Pacific,"
is also the product of these erosive forces, as are the stunning
sea cliffs along the Na Pali coast.
Although
it is one of the smallest of the main Hawaiian Islands, the
forces of nature have had more time to break the island down
and produce more sand beach around its 110-mile coastline
than any other island in the chain. Meanwhile, it remains
the least populated of Hawaii's four counties (with roughly
56,000 permanent residents), and both development and tourism
have been concentrated in relatively few locations. All of
which furthers the sense that Kauai is, in fact, a separate
kingdom.
The census
in 2004 showed Kauai County had 137 doctors and 474 nurses.
Here’s a place to stand out and make a difference!
An assignment
in Honolulu on the island of Oahu would leave you plenty of
time to explore Hawaii’s treasures, while enjoying the
convenience of city life.
From ancient
stone heiau (Hawaiian temples) to 21st-Century high-rises,
Oahu is an island of endless contrasts. Geographically only
the third largest of the inhabited Hawaiian Islands, it is
nonetheless home to nearly three-quarters of the state's 1.2
million residents — 370,000 of whom are concentrated
in Honolulu the ultra-modern, south-coast cityscape kama'aina
(residents) refer to simply as "Town."
But take
a 45-minute drive to "Country" — the famed
surfing Mecca on the island's north shore — and you'll
find sleepy Hale'iwa town (pop. 2,225) existing much as it
has since it was established by missionaries in 1832.
Like
the other islands, islets and shoals that make up the 1,600-mile
Hawaiian Island chain, Oahu is believed to be the product
of a single "hot spot" in the earth's mantle. The
bulk of Oahu was created nearly four million years ago, by
two now-extinct shield volcanoes — the remains of which
are today visible as the Ko'olau and Wai'anae mountain ranges,
running parallel to each other along the length of the island's
eastern and western coasts, respectively.
More recent
volcanic activity also created several of Oahu's most visible
landmarks: 761-foot-tall Diamond Head, located on Waikiki's
eastern border, is a "tuff cone," formed some 100,000
years ago when an eruption of volcanic ash eventually hardened
into solid rock. Southeast Oahu's Koko Head and downtown Honolulu's
Punchbowl (the latter of which houses the National Memorial
Cemetery of the Pacific in its crater) are also tuff cones.
For more
information about our current travel openings, contact Favorite's
Travel Nurse Services at 800-755-1411 or gotravel@favoritestaffing.com.
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