Per-diem healthcare shifts booked by bidding. From their own professionals pages: a marketplace reaching over 3,000 facilities and more than 120 markets, for nurses, CNAs, therapists and other credentialed specialties. YOU SET WHAT YOU WILL WORK FOR — you bid on shifts at the hourly rate you want rather than accepting a posted one, and you accept as many or as few as suit you. Credentials are uploaded and kept current in the app. They partner with Stride Health so that people working this way can reach benefits at all. Their own caveat: not all specialties are available in all states
What you need
a current healthcare licence for the specialty you want to work; their sign-up asks your licence status directly
How you get paid
Per shift, at a rate you bid
Requirements people miss
CONFIRM HOW YOU WILL BE CLASSIFIED BEFORE YOUR FIRST SHIFT. ShiftKey's own pages describe independent work throughout but never state a tax classification, and outside reporting has described employment instead — the sources disagree and we are not going to resolve it for you. Ask directly whether you are W-2 or 1099, because it decides whether tax is withheld for you, who carries your insurance, and what benefits exist. Assuming the wrong one is a bill you find out about at tax time — reported, not confirmed
Worker costs
No upfront cost found — we searched their landing page and signup flow (the site publishes no pricing/FAQ subtree) on 2026-08-25 and found no upfront-cost language. Not a guarantee of free.
Taking new people
Yes
How we know
confirmed on the company's own page
Last checked by us
Aug 14, 2026
Where it works
anywhere in the US
How you get in
Sign up on their own site — Their site carries facility, hospital and corporate boards alongside this one. This link is the independent-professional side specifically — check that any posting you open is the same lane.
Device you need
We haven't confirmed
Whether you can join right now
THEIR OWN CAVEAT, and it decides whether this is usable where you live: not all specialties are available in all states. Check that yours is before you invest time in credentialing
The rating of the app workers use — never the customer app. Each store is its own witness; we show both and never average them. The count is what makes a score mean something. Click a listing to see the number as it stands today.
ecosystems-package-v20.md: their own professionals page and sign-up (shiftkey.com/professionals, /sign-up), plus their App Store listing for the professional app
Availability note read from the company's own page
ecosystems-package-v20.md: their own professionals page and sign-up (shiftkey.com/professionals, /sign-up), plus their App Store listing for the professional app
Cost picture read from the company's own page
money-campaign (owner arc 2026-08-25): EVIDENCED ABSENCE — we read their landing page and signup flow (the site publishes no pricing/FAQ subtree) on 2026-08-25 and found no upfront-cost language. Not a guarantee of free; an absence is only as strong as the search that looked for it, and this records the search.
How you get in read from the company's own page
ecosystems-package-v20.md: their own professionals page and sign-up (shiftkey.com/professionals, /sign-up), plus their App Store listing for the professional app
How you get paid read from the company's own page
ecosystems-package-v20.md: their own professionals page and sign-up (shiftkey.com/professionals, /sign-up), plus their App Store listing for the professional app
Requirements people miss reported by someone else — not the company's words
ecosystems-package-v20.md: A CLASSIFICATION DISPUTE, rendered as the dispute rather than as either side. Provider property (shiftkey.com/professionals, /sign-up, the home page, the App Store listing) says 'independent' throughout and states no tax form. Third-party trade press describes W-2 hiring. Press carries REPORTED and never becomes a fact here: asserting W-2 alone would REDUCE caution about the outcome that actually hurts — a worker assuming tax is withheld when it is not. Owner ruling 2026-08-14
Sign-up link read from the company's own page
ecosystems-package-v20.md: their own professionals page and sign-up (shiftkey.com/professionals, /sign-up), plus their App Store listing for the professional app
Taking new people read from the company's own page
ecosystems-package-v20.md: their own professionals page and sign-up (shiftkey.com/professionals, /sign-up), plus their App Store listing for the professional app: their signup is open to new applicants
Vehicle needed read from the company's own page
vehicle-model-phase4 (owner ruling 2026-08-25): per-diem healthcare shifts at facilities per the record's own material; the worker carries themselves. Work-type basis under the ruled three-condition test; no quote fabricated.
What it is read from the company's own page
ecosystems-package-v20.md: their own professionals page and sign-up (shiftkey.com/professionals, /sign-up), plus their App Store listing for the professional app
What workers rate the app reported by someone else — not the company's words
Apple App Store listing for "ShiftKey - PRN Healthcare Jobs" and Google Play listing for "ShiftKey - PRN Healthcare Jobs" — the store is the witness, not the company; checked 2026-09-02
What you need read from the company's own page
ecosystems-package-v20.md: their own professionals page and sign-up (shiftkey.com/professionals, /sign-up), plus their App Store listing for the professional app
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