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Travel nursing is the nursing job for people
who want to wander all over the place
and get paid all sorts of money.
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Basically, once you have been a nurse for a
few years, usually at least two in a certain
specialty, then you are able to sign up with
a travel nursing agency, and you can take
contracts all over the country to fill in
where hospitals need help.
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You're usually paid incredibly well, which
is lovely.
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And what is not lovely though, is you can
get canceled at any point which will leave
you without your money.
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So that can be a problem.
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But there are tons of different travel nurse
agencies out there.
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All of them have different specialties and
work within different health care systems.
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This means I don't have any recommendations
for like one travel agency
in particular that I can just give you.
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But there are a ton of social media nurses
who have traveled and share all of their tips
and their tricks and their agency
recommendations.
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So I would go look there.
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The thing to remember with this is that you
need to be really,
really confident and solid in your skills
before you launch into travel
nursing. Because when you take a contract,
that floor will literally expect you to
start taking assignments without any
orientation.
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Like, you might get a few hours to be shown
around the unit.
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Like, Hey, here's the bathroom, here's where
the patient supplies are.
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All right, ready, set, go.
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But otherwise, you will be expected to know
how to do the job itself without any further
training. But when you get to that point,
it's a super awesome opportunity that a
lot of people who want to just be able to
travel and see the country can do so while
also getting paid and working.