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What is being a travel nurse like?

I want to know how you even get into it and what the places and environment are like that you go to. #travelnurse

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Camille’s Answer

Hi Angelina! I am a travel nurse! Typically to get into travel nursing you are required to have at least 1 year experience in your specialty. For instance before travel nursing as a ICU RN, I had nearly 3 years of ICU experience. You can be a travel nurse in any specialty! After gaining that essential experience, you would then contact a few travel agencies. The travel agency will set you up with a recruiter. The recruiter will ask for your experience, recommendations from charge nurses/supervisor/managers, as well as ACLS/BLS/PALS certifications. You get to choose the locations you are interested in traveling to! The recruiter will have the agency reach out to the facilities looking for travel nurses. A facility may choose to interview you before accepting you, or you may be automatically accepted based upon your credentials. You will get to see the pay package before accepting any offer. A contract typically is 13 weeks long, but you are able to extend if the facility offers. Depending on the facility orientation to the hospital could be anywhere from 1 to 3 days. They expect you to hit the ground running! This is why you definitely need experience before pursuing travel nursing.

As far as the work environment, it really depends on the facility. If you have your eyes set on a specific facility, your agency recruiter can get you in touch with another travel nurse that has previously worked at that facility and you can ask that traveler! There's also a few websites online where travel nurses share their experiences with different facilities. Each facility and each nursing unit is different!

Hope this helps! Travel nursing was the best thing I have ever done!
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Mauro’s Answer

Im no travel nurse but I almost become a Nurse Recruiter and i have some friends who are traveling nurses. Essentially a Nursing Recruiter would pitch nurses contracts across different markets.

If the nurse would like to travel there, they would get reimbursed for their stay and such and get paid decently. Its only for number of months or years depending on how you like the area and hospital.

Travel nurses is probably the dream for nurses who just want to travel and work the same time.
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