Hotel San Juan
Caribe Hilton
The iconic beachfront resort where the piña colada was born — private beach, pools, and ten minutes from the metro hospitals.
Monthly nurse rate on ocean-view rooms
Puerto Rico needs nurses.
Travel nurses are licensed professionals who take temporary hospital assignments. Puerto Rico competes with higher-paying mainland contracts, making critical vacancies harder to fill.
Come for the Island. Care for its People.
- experience burnout
- 92%
- seek additional income
- 63%
- San Juan median RN pay v U.S.
- 50%
- plan to remain in healthcare
- 42%
The result: unsafe nurse-to-patient ratios and eroding patient care.
The fastest fix: travel nurses from the mainland.gets them ready and matched.
Find your place
Come for the Island.
Care for its People.
Come for the Island.
Care for its People.
The travel nursing marketplace connecting Puerto Rico’s hospitals, nurses, and tourism partners—bringing care, island stays, and local experiences together.
$1,850weekly, local hospital pay
+$1,400island living covered
100%turnkey arrival
The WEPA formula
Free travel, lodging, and fun — instead of high pay.
Mainland travel contracts pay big, then quietly take it back in rent, overtime, and burnout. Here you make a little money while you’re here — and the island picks up almost everything else.
The mainland contract
$3,800/wk- Gouged short-term rent swallows most of the paycheck
- Crisis overtime just to break even
- Winter shifts in a city you never see
Bottom line: a paycheck that disappears
The WEPA island chapter
$1,850/wk + island- Honest local pay from Puerto Rico hospitals
- Travel, lodging, and food covered by island partners
- Bio-bay weekends, surf, and rainforest built into the gig
Bottom line: you keep the island — and still bank savings
Your Passport opens the island community
“I came nervous about moving my whole family. By week two, we had a beach routine and people who knew our names.”
Elena Rivera · Emergency Room
Hospital Wilma N. Vázquez · Dorado
Synthetic nurse and testimonial for MVP demonstration.
The island partners
Real Puerto Rico, built into every gig.
Hotels, sails, spas, and adventures from the island's best travel & tourism names — bundled into your package instead of a bigger paycheck.
Hotel Condado, San Juan
La Concha Renaissance
Condado's landmark resort with a casino, oceanfront pools, and the liveliest beach strip on the island.
Weekend suite upgrades for gig packages
Hotel Dorado
Dorado Beach, a Ritz-Carlton Reserve
Ultra-luxury beachfront reserve on a former Rockefeller estate — the island's most storied coastline.
Spa & beach day passes for completed contracts
Hotel Fajardo
El Conquistador Resort
Cliff-top resort with its own private island, Palomino, reached by catamaran from the marina below.
Palomino Island day escapes
Beach & Sailing Fajardo
East Island Excursions
Catamaran day sails to Cayo Icacos and Culebra — snorkeling, lunch, and open bar on the water.
Monthly catamaran seats in every package
Adventure Fajardo & Vieques
Kayaking Puerto Rico
Guided night paddles through the brightest bioluminescent bays in the world.
Bio-bay nights for two, every rotation
Adventure Orocovis
Toro Verde Adventure Park
Home of The Monster — one of the longest ziplines on Earth — deep in the central mountains.
Zipline day trips between shifts
Food & Culture Cataño
Casa Bacardí
The Cathedral of Rum — distillery tours, mixology classes, and sunset views across the bay to Old San Juan.
Welcome-week mixology class
Spa & Wellness Guánica
Copamarina Beach Resort & Spa
South-coast hideaway on the edge of the Guánica Dry Forest with a full spa and calm Caribbean coves.
Shift-reset spa weekends
Beach & Sailing Isabela
Villa Montaña Beach Resort
Barefoot-luxury villas on three miles of west-coast beach — surf, horses, and legendary sunsets.
West-coast surf & stay weekends
Live opportunities
Gigs with more life in them.
22 gigs at 21 Puerto Rico hospitals
Top match · 94%San Juan (Hato Rey) · San Juan metro
Hospital Auxilio Mutuo
Transplant ICU in the capital
“El Gran Hospital de Puerto Rico” — a 140-year-old tertiary center with transplant, oncology and cardiac programs.
Live minutes from Old San Juan's blue cobblestones and Condado's beaches.
Old San JuanCondado beachSanturce food scene
$1,702take-home / wk
13weeks
Nov 17starts
Your island package
- Condado apartment
- Round-trip flight
- Old San Juan food tour
Photo: Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
92% fit
Dorado · Dorado
Hospital del Mar
ER nights by the beach
$1,656take-home / wk
13weeks
2026-11-16starts
Your island package
- Resort villa near Dorado Beach
- Round-trip flight from the mainland
- Rental car, first 30 days
92% fit
Dorado · Dorado
Hospital del Mar
Med-Surg, family-friendly coast
$1,564take-home / wk
8weeks
2026-12-07starts
Your island package
- Hospital-owned staff housing
- Round-trip flight from the mainland
- Rental car, full contract
92% fitPonce · Ponce & the south
Centro Médico Episcopal San Lucas
Southern trauma ICU
Southern Puerto Rico's tertiary referral center with trauma and cardiac care.
Warm, dry Caribbean coast with Hacienda Buena Vista coffee tours above the city.
Coffee haciendasSouthern sunMuseo de Arte de Ponce
$1,647take-home / wk
13weeks
Dec 8starts
Your island package
- Hacienda coffee tour
- Furnished apartment
- Flight + car
Photo: Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
91% fitManatí · North coast
Doctors' Center Hospital Manatí
North-coast ER, Atlantic views
Flagship of the Doctors' Center network, a high-volume north-coast referral hospital.
Mar Chiquita's hidden cove and the Atlantic-facing beaches of the north coast.
Mar ChiquitaLos Tubos beachKarst caves
$1,564take-home / wk
13weeks
Nov 17starts
Your island package
- Beach house share
- Car + gas card
- Cave tour
Photo: doctorscenterhospital.com
90% fitSan Juan (Santurce) · San Juan metro
Hospital Pavia Santurce
Cardiac step-down in Santurce
One of the island's most complete cardiovascular centers and the first in PR certified for TAVI.
Santurce is street art, La Placita nights and a 10-minute ride to Ocean Park.
La PlacitaOcean ParkCalle Cerra murals
$1,638take-home / wk
8weeks
Dec 1starts
Your island package
- Ocean Park studio
- Bike + beach gear
- Salsa class pass
Photo: hospitalpaviapr.com
88% fitSan Juan (Condado) · San Juan metro
Ashford Presbyterian Community Hospital
ER steps from Condado beach
A Condado landmark since 1904, caring for San Juan from steps off the beach.
Walk to the Condado lagoon, paddleboard at sunrise, dinner on Ashford Avenue.
Condado LagoonAshford AvenuePaddleboarding
$1,674take-home / wk
13weeks
Nov 24starts
Your island package
- Walk-to-work condo
- Paddleboard rental
- Airport pickup
Photo: Wikimedia Commons · Public domain (historic postcard)
87% fitCaguas · Central east
Hospital Menonita Caguas
NICU in the Criollo Valley
240 beds with NICU, pediatric ICU and family-centered LDR suites.
The 'Criollo Valley' — botanical gardens, mountain lechoneras and El Yunque within reach.
Botanical gardenRuta del LechónEl Yunque day trips
$1,582take-home / wk
13weeks
Jan 12starts
Your island package
- Mountain-view casita
- Childcare credit
- El Yunque weekend
Photo: sistemamenonita.com
86% fitVieques · Vieques & Culebra
Susana Centeno Family Health Center
Island ER on Vieques
The island municipality's only health center — small team, huge impact.
Wild horses, empty beaches and the brightest bioluminescent bay on Earth.
Mosquito BayWild horsesSun Bay
$1,518take-home / wk
4weeks
Dec 15starts
Your island package
- Beach cottage
- Ferry + flights
- Bio-bay kayak night
Photo: Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
85% fitPonce · Ponce & the south
Hospital Damas
Labor & Delivery in La Perla del Sur
A 331-bed teaching hospital founded in 1863 — one of the oldest on the island.
Ponce, 'La Perla del Sur': firehouse museum, La Guancha boardwalk and Caja de Muertos.
La GuanchaParque de BombasCaja de Muertos
$1,546take-home / wk
13weeks
Nov 24starts
Your island package
- Historic-district loft
- Caja de Muertos boat day
- Car
Photo: Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
84% fitCabo Rojo · West coast
Hospital Metropolitano de Cabo Rojo
Sunset-corner ER
A friendly community hospital at the island's sunset corner.
Playa Buyé, Boquerón seafood and the cliffs of Los Morrillos lighthouse.
Playa BuyéBoquerónLos Morrillos
$1,472take-home / wk
13weeks
Nov 24starts
Your island package
- Boquerón beach apartment
- Snorkel gear
- Seafood passport
Photo: Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
83% fitPonce (Coto Laurel) · Ponce & the south
Hospital San Cristóbal
ER at the foot of the mountains
A growing hospital on Ponce's east side, close to the mountain towns.
Gateway to Jayuya's mountains and the southern Ruta Panorámica.
Ruta PanorámicaMountain townsToro Negro forest
$1,490take-home / wk
13weeks
Jan 19starts
Your island package
- Mountain cabin
- Jeep rental
- Toro Negro hike
Photo: Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
82% fitBayamón · San Juan metro
Hospital Universitario Dr. Ramón Ruiz Arnau
Teaching-hospital Med-Surg
A university teaching hospital serving one of PR's largest cities.
Bayamón's chicharrón trail, Parque de las Ciencias and the metro's west side.
Teaching hospitalChicharrón trailScience park
$1,518take-home / wk
13weeks
Dec 8starts
Your island package
- Bayamón apartment
- Flight + car
- Lechonera Sundays
Photo: Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
82% fitAguadilla · West coast
Hospital Buen Samaritano
Telemetry on the surf coast
Northwest Puerto Rico's community hospital, serving Aguadilla and Isabela.
Crash Boat beach, Isabela's surf breaks and Gozalandia waterfalls.
Crash BoatJobos surfGozalandia falls
$1,454take-home / wk
13weeks
Dec 1starts
Your island package
- Isabela beach studio
- Board rental
- Gozalandia trip
Photo: hbspr.org
81% fitSan Germán · West coast
Hospital de la Concepción
Pediatrics at PR's oldest hospital
The oldest hospital in Puerto Rico — five centuries of care, with a modern campus.
San Germán's colonial plazas, cool hills and west-coast beaches 20 minutes away.
Colonial San GermánLajas valleyLa Parguera bio-bay
$1,472take-home / wk
13weeks
Jan 5starts
Your island package
- Colonial casa
- La Parguera bio-bay
- Car
Photo: hospitaldelaconcepcion.com
80% fitHumacao · East coast
Ryder Memorial Hospital
Telemetry on the east coast
A nonprofit community hospital serving the east coast since 1914.
Palmas del Mar marina, Humacao nature reserve and ferries toward Vieques.
Palmas del MarNature reserveEast-coast beaches
$1,472take-home / wk
8weeks
Dec 1starts
Your island package
- Marina condo
- Snorkel trip
- Kayak rental
Photo: Wikimedia Commons · Public domain (U.S. Navy)
80% fitMayagüez · West coast
Hospital Bella Vista
Robotic OR above Mayagüez bay
Joint Commission accredited, with da Vinci robotic surgery and PET-CT.
Hilltop views over Mayagüez bay, Rincón surf and Desecheo diving nearby.
Rincón surfMayagüez bayDesecheo diving
$1,564take-home / wk
8weeks
Dec 15starts
Your island package
- Rincón surf shack
- Surf lessons
- Car
Photo: bvhpr.org
79% fitGuaynabo · San Juan metro
Professional Hospital Guaynabo
OR nurse, metro hills
A modern surgical and specialty hospital in the metro's calm hills.
Quiet suburb living with San Juan's beaches and nightlife 15 minutes away.
Metro convenienceHillside viewsEasy airport access
$1,619take-home / wk
8weeks
Jan 5starts
Your island package
- Furnished townhouse
- Car rental
- El Yunque hike
Photo: Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
78% fitPonce · Ponce & the south
Hospital Metropolitano Dr. Pila
Med-Surg near Ponce plaza
A long-standing Ponce community hospital on Avenida Las Américas.
Easy access to Ponce's historic plaza and the beaches of Guánica.
Plaza Las DeliciasGuánica dry forestGilligan's Island
$1,454take-home / wk
8weeks
Dec 1starts
Your island package
- Casa near the plaza
- Car
- Gilligan's Island ferry
Photo: Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
77% fitLares / Castañer · Central mountains
Hospital General Castañer
Rural mountain ER
A rural mountain hospital that is the lifeline for coffee country communities.
Misty coffee haciendas, river pools and the quietest nights on the island.
Coffee countryRiver poolsMountain stillness
$1,380take-home / wk
8weeks
Jan 12starts
Your island package
- Hacienda guesthouse
- 4×4 rental
- River pool days
Photo: Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
76% fitGuaynabo · San Juan metro
Hospital Episcopal San Lucas Metro
Oncology infusion, metro
The San Lucas system's metro campus, with surgical and specialty programs.
Metro living with quick hops to Old San Juan and Piñones.
Piñones kiosksOld San JuanMetro dining
$1,509take-home / wk
8weeks
Jan 5starts
Your island package
- Studio apartment
- Piñones bike tour
- Gym pass
Photo: sanlucaspr.org
74% fitYauco · Southwest
Hospital Dr. Tito Mattei
Coffee Town Med-Surg
Serving Yauco, the 'Coffee Town', and the southwest corridor.
Colorful Yauco murals, coffee farms and Guánica's turquoise cays.
Yauco coffeeYaucromatic muralsGuánica cays
$1,426take-home / wk
8weeks
Dec 8starts
Your island package
- Coffee-farm stay
- Car
- Guánica cay boat
Photo: Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0