Zjinn

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1. Address while away

   Zjinn replied to HAW62's topic in Travel

   While I can appreciate you wanting clarification, your responses can be deemed very aggressive, and accusing someone of doing something illegal is definitely not a way to win influence. If this were the first post you had done that in, or I the firs...

2. Address while away

   Zjinn replied to HAW62's topic in Travel

   Without becoming argumentative, I can tell you that you have stepped outside of your expertise in this area. Yes, I can own a vacation home in CA as well as one in Mexico, without claiming either as my residency or my tax home. Yes, I can be a resi...

3. Future traveler needing friendly advice

   Zjinn replied to ORRN1989's topic in Travel

   It sounds like you are going into this with the right frame of mind. My only additional advice would be to get one more year in the OR. Two years in your specialty makes you much more marketable to the better contracts. This would also give you mo...

4. Address while away

   Zjinn replied to HAW62's topic in Travel

   I appreciate the concern, but hopefully you can see from my previous posts that I'm very conscientious about making sure we are above board and legal in all our decisions. We are 100% legal residents of SD. I've seen you get a little overzealous in...

5. Future traveler needing friendly advice

   Zjinn replied to ORRN1989's topic in Travel

   If you're having to use current paychecks to buy out of your contract, I'm going to assume you don't have a lot of reserves. If that is the case, I would not recommend starting to travel yet. While there is good money to be made traveling, it's not...

6. Address while away

   Zjinn replied to HAW62's topic in Travel

   When my wife and I started traveling, we didn't want a home to have to worry about so we sold our home. Our initial plan was to use our daughter's address to receive mail and claim as a tax home. Thankfully we have a really good accountant, who spe...

7. Travel Nurse with Puerto Rico RN license

   Zjinn replied to merarn's topic in Travel

   Could the dual language availability be a relatively new thing? We haven't checked on it in a few years, but the PR BoN told us we would need to be fluent in Spanish to test for a license there. There is definitely no reciprocity. We're currently ...

8. Travel Nurse with Puerto Rico RN license

   Zjinn replied to merarn's topic in Travel

   My wife and I tried to do the same thing in reverse. We really wanted to work in PR and found out we had to be fluent in Spanish to take the licensing exam. That was a surprise and disappointing, because I don't think we ever met anyone in PR who d...

9. How much???

   Zjinn replied to jodyangel's topic in Travel

   It depends on where you're planning on traveling as to how much you're going to make. I've been offered as low as $17 an hour in NM and FL (I thought they were joking...), to over $100 an hour in CA. Coming from OK, where I made ~$30 an hour, I've ...

10. New grad travel nursing.

    Zjinn replied to nicolesn1986's topic in Travel

    As a travel nurse you are expected to be able to walk onto a unit and begin full patient care, much of the time with little to no orientation. That's a tall order for even the most experienced nurses. Even knowing the travel game and with years of ...

11. $15/hr

    Zjinn replied to txrn23's topic in Travel

    That's good information from Ned and I'll expound on it a little. My wife and I started traveling a few years ago. Our kids are grown, so we didn't really need a home to go back to. We sold our home because we planned on traveling from contract to...

12. Ages of male nursing students?

    Zjinn replied to Stearnsy's topic in Male Students

    I'll throw my lot in here as well. The biggest advantage for me is focus. I'm much more focused on school this time around. The age difference hasn't really been a problem that I've noticed. It helps that my wife is in the program with me. We ha...

13. Just finished OB rotation

    Zjinn replied to newmale2nursing's topic in Male Students

    I had been dreading my O.B. rotation since I first decided to go to NS, but it actually turned out to be one of my favorite rotations so far. L&D was really interesting, even though the nurses didn't seem excited about having male students ther...

14. Ages of male nursing students?

    Zjinn replied to Stearnsy's topic in Male Students

    I'll be graduating in the fall at age 40. My wife and I are going through together, as a second career, so I'm probably having a little different experience than most men in nursing school. Out of a class of 72, we have 12 men ranging from ages ...