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Eligibility
Labor and Delivery
Posted Jul 18
Shift and hours
Nights36 hours a week
Unit and setting
L&D
License
RN license
Term
Travel
What it pays
Against similar roles
Top of Alabama travel payAlabama travel postings that state pay run $1,080/week to $2,360/week, the middle half $1,200/week to $1,980/week, across 60 postings.
Also stated
$1,970/week
Benefits
Employee discount
Dental insurance
Health insurance
Continuing education credits
Flexible schedule
Referral program
More benefits (9)
401(k)
License reimbursement
Mileage reimbursement
Tuition reimbursement
Vision insurance
Relocation assistance
24/7 access to recruiter
Paid pre-hire modules
Day 1 Insurance through UHC & MetLife - Medical/Dental/Vision with coverage between assignments
Health Carousel Travel Nursing is hiring Registered Nurses for assignments at a top client in Dothan, AL. L&D - 36h/week or 48h/week, Nights, $1,966 (36h) or $2,884 (48h) Gross Weekly. Quick Interviews & Offers. Multiple openings available.
Neighborhoods+West Dothan and the outskirts are the pockets locals actually recommend: Headland, Rehobeth, Magnolia Trace, and Grove Park come up first on community threads. Buyers with more budget name Mountainbrook; a six-figure remote worker called The Woodlands peaceful, safer than Enterprise, and minutes from Target, Starbucks, and the airport. Downtown mixes restored historic homes on St. Andrews with newer lofts and apartments on Foster and Main, walkable to breweries and coffee. The city is described as tree rings—Downtown, Central Dothan inside the Circle, then North/South/East/West, then cotton-and-pine countryside—with more than 50 neighborhoods in Dothan proper plus small towns such as Taylor (Niche’s #1 in Houston County).
West Dothan and the outskirts are the pockets locals actually recommend: Headland, Rehobeth, Magnolia Trace, and Grove Park come up first on community threads. Buyers with more budget name Mountainbrook; a six-figure remote worker called The Woodlands peaceful, safer than Enterprise, and minutes from Target, Starbucks, and the airport.
Downtown mixes restored historic homes on St. Andrews with newer lofts and apartments on Foster and Main, walkable to breweries and coffee. The city is described as tree rings—Downtown, Central Dothan inside the Circle, then North/South/East/West, then cotton-and-pine countryside—with more than 50 neighborhoods in Dothan proper plus small towns such as Taylor (Niche’s #1 in Houston County).
Getting around+The typical Dothan commute is about 16.22 minutes; the city is very spread out, daily life is car-based, and these sources name no transit lines, hospital routes, or parking rules. The Woodlands is minutes from Target, Starbucks, and Dothan Regional Airport, which has daily nonstop jets to Atlanta. Major highways stitch the Wiregrass together; the beach, Lake Eufaula, and Atlanta are each a few hours’ drive. Traffic still shows up as a local complaint even with that short average drive.
The typical Dothan commute is about 16.22 minutes; the city is very spread out, daily life is car-based, and these sources name no transit lines, hospital routes, or parking rules. The Woodlands is minutes from Target, Starbucks, and Dothan Regional Airport, which has daily nonstop jets to Atlanta.
Major highways stitch the Wiregrass together; the beach, Lake Eufaula, and Atlanta are each a few hours’ drive. Traffic still shows up as a local complaint even with that short average drive.
Outdoors+Dothan Area Botanical Gardens (paths, themed plantings, water features) and Landmark Park (trails, historic buildings, family exhibits) are the in-town nature anchors; Forever Wild Trails at Beaver Creek adds hiking. City parks include Eastgate Park, Kiwanis Park, Westgate Park, and Rip Hewes Athletic Complex, with golf courses around the metro and Adventureland for mini golf and batting cages. Outer rings mix rivers, creeks, timber, cotton farms, and wildlife; a few hours away are Lake Eufaula, Florida beaches, St. Andrew’s State Park, and caverns in Marianna. Hiking inside Dothan itself is often called limited.
Dothan Area Botanical Gardens (paths, themed plantings, water features) and Landmark Park (trails, historic buildings, family exhibits) are the in-town nature anchors; Forever Wild Trails at Beaver Creek adds hiking. City parks include Eastgate Park, Kiwanis Park, Westgate Park, and Rip Hewes Athletic Complex, with golf courses around the metro and Adventureland for mini golf and batting cages.
Outer rings mix rivers, creeks, timber, cotton farms, and wildlife; a few hours away are Lake Eufaula, Florida beaches, St. Andrew’s State Park, and caverns in Marianna. Hiking inside Dothan itself is often called limited.
Check the commute at your shift’s start and end, upfront housing costs, and whether moving assistance must be repaid if you leave.
Living in Dothan
Dothan is the Peanut Capital of the World—about 60 percent of the U.S. crop grows within 100 miles—and the unflashy hub of Alabama’s Wiregrass, a tri-state area of nearly 300,000 people near Fort Rucker, Georgia, and the Florida line. It will not sell you mountains or beachfront. What it does sell is a roughly 16-minute typical commute, median homes near $194,000, rents around $750, and downtown Foster Street, where murals, the Wiregrass Museum of Art, KBC, and Dothan Ice Cream Company sit among historic lofts. Nurses here tend toward the west side, The Woodlands (minutes from Target, Starbucks, and the airport), Magnolia Trace, Grove Park, or towns like Rehobeth, Headland, and Taylor. Landmark Park, the botanical gardens, and the National Peanut Festival fill weekends; Lake Eufaula, Florida beaches, and Atlanta are a few hours away. Tradeoffs are honest: brutal summers, high utilities, thin nightlife, limited hiking, and some transplants get bored. Bring a car and you get affordability plus a slower, family-oriented pace.
