Travel Nursing (RN)

00:01 Travel nursing is the nursing job for people who want to wander all over the place and get paid all sorts of money.

00:08 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.

00:22 You're usually paid incredibly well, which is lovely.

00:26 And what is not lovely though, is you can get canceled at any point which will leave you without your money.

00:32 So that can be a problem.

00:33 But there are tons of different travel nurse agencies out there.

00:36 All of them have different specialties and work within different health care systems.

00:39 This means I don't have any recommendations for like one travel agency in particular that I can just give you.

00:46 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.

00:54 So I would go look there.

00:55 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.

01:13 Like, you might get a few hours to be shown around the unit.

01:16 Like, Hey, here's the bathroom, here's where the patient supplies are.

01:18 All right, ready, set, go.

01:19 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.