Located at the geographical midpoint of America, Kansas is known for the tolerance it developed as it integrated waves of immigrants after the Civil War. Medical Travelers Inc. advises travel nurses that this attitude persists, increasing their comfort level on assignments there. Kansas, the capital of wheat growing, is generally flat, an undulating plain, although it rises gradually to the west. In frontier days it was the railhead from which Texas cattle were shipped—as many as eight million a year. Today there are six thousand ghost towns in Kansas, and, thanks in part to the declining population (another factor in getting travel nurses a warm welcome), nine out of ten of its cities have fewer than three thousand people. People here have learned to depend on each other; community members are known to thank a travel nurse “just for being here.” Kansas has a strong economy based on the production of wheat, cattle, oil, and gas. Known for its colleges and universities, several cities boast excellent hospitals: Wichita, Overland Park, Kansas City, Topeka, Olanthe, Pittsburg, Emporia, Lawrence, Shawnee, and Manhattan. And smaller facilities are scattered evenly throughout the state. There’s plenty to see in Kansas for a travel nurse, besides the outdoor activities: Big Brutus, the world’s largest electric shovel; the Grassroads Art Center and the Garden of Eden, both in Lucas; the Sunflower Army Munitions Plant in DeSoto; the Greyhound Hall of Fame in Abilene, at the end of the Chisolm Trail; the Wizard of Oz Museum in Warnego; the Cosmosphere in Hutchinson, which also has the world’s largest wheat elevator; and the world’s largest hand-dug well in Greensburg.
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