Travel Nursing (LPN)

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

00:07 Nurse techs tend to go on to LPN school for this reason.

00:11 Basically, once you've been a nurse for a few years, at least two, and even in certain specialties, you're able to sign up with a travel nursing agency, and can take contracts all over the country.

00:25 Now, this is going to be really helpful because hospitals usually need travel nurses to fill gaps for patient care.

00:32 Now, you're usually paid very well which is great.

00:35 But what's not great as you can get cancelled as a travel nurse, which leaves you without pay.

00:42 Now are there a ton of different travel nursing agencies out there, all of them have different specialties, working with different health care systems.

00:51 So this means that I don't really have any recommendations, though, for one particular agency.

00:58 But there's lots of content out there on social media, and nurses who've traveled you certain agencies, and you may want to look for their tips and tricks.

01:08 Now, the thing to remember with this is that you need to be really confident and solid in your skills before you launch into this type of nursing.

01:18 Now, when you take a contract, that unit, that hospital, they're going to expect you to hit the ground running.

01:25 You're going to have to start taking assignments, sometimes without any orientation.

01:31 So maybe you get a few hours to be shown around the unit, maybe where the dirty utility closet is or the supply room.

01:39 But otherwise, you're going to be expected to know how to do the job without much further training.

01:46 But such a cool opportunity for a lot of people who want to travel, see the country and then gain a little money while they're at it.

01:55 Here is one more thought on travel nursing.

01:58 LPNs can indeed take travel nursing positions.

02:01 However, as a travel nurse, you got to be really careful about following the institutions policy and procedure that you're working in.

02:12 As a travel nurse, you are usually unfamiliar with how things are done in that hospital or even in that state when you're visiting there and working.

02:21 You've got to figure out where to access these resources to protect yourself, your patients, and a 100% your license.