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1. Travel nursing in SF area?

   miam replied to Mona,RN's topic in Travel

   Staff makes much more then travelers in the bay area, but very very difficult to land perm

2. Travel Agency

   miam replied to snellison8's topic in Travel

   You can't expect other nurses to spoon feed you specific information. You have to be willing to get on the phone and do your homework. And if the assignment does not work out then learn from it and...

3. Unemployment Insurance Benefits

   miam replied to briantroy's topic in Travel

   If you are signed up with several agencies then you should have work. That being said I don't know if travel nursing is for those extremely "picky". How do you know you don't lime a area until you...

4. Do you make your own schedule?

   miam replied to ASHRN828's topic in Travel

   She may have been on the rude side but she was right. We are there to fill in the needs they have and very often it may not seem fair. But not very often do we get treated like staff. A lot worse then...

5. Future traveler needing friendly advice

   miam replied to ORRN1989's topic in Travel

   I don't think it would be wise to start traveling thinking you are going to have to make a lot of extra money to pay back loans. What if you are at an assignment and they cancel you 2 weeks into a 13...

6. background

   miam replied to miam's topic in Travel

   Thanks guys. I am a little old old to have been this stupid ( can't use the young/doumb excuse) but hopefully still have the nursing career I

7. background

   miam posted a topic in Travel

   Question: I am currently a travel nurse , am with several companies, have current RN clean license. My question is I do have a felony eluding on my background from a year ago. It wasn't a high speed...

8. Is traveling REALLY all that AND SOME???!!

   miam replied to NurseLizabeeRN's topic in Travel

   You would want to drive so that you could have a vehicle to explore with. Unless you rent a car, and that would be something you pay for, not the agency and quite

9. Licensure question

   miam replied to taggart84's topic in Travel

   I'm lucky, I have a compact license but since you do not pick 3 or 4 states that seem to have nursing jobs that you are interested in and want to visit and appapply for license when you can afford it....

10. Hotel Accomadations for Travelers

    miam replied to jnh911's topic in Travel

    i have done this at comfort inns, they have let check in as early as 7 a. They are pretty basic, but for 36 hrs all you really need is a clean bed, a microwave, and a fridge. It works.

11. Per diem to Traveler - Is this allowed?

    miam replied to liser79's topic in Travel

    why would you say travel nursing is not full time? Most of us ask for guaranteed 36 hour weeks in our contract, which is always considered full

12. Travel Nurse Buddy

    miam replied to jskgx2's topic in Travel

    with the travel industry still being pretty tight on jobs, and peoples experience being different, i think it would be very difficult for two nurses to try to arrange travel assignments together right...

13. advice needed ED travel nursing in Bay Area

    miam replied to germsjackson's topic in Travel

    which agency are you using that seems to have alot of oakland

14. New to travel nursing

    miam replied to Phxbound's topic in Travel

    you might want to dit tight at your job for at least another year, maybe try to get some ER or ICU experience. you are going to have a really hard time trying to get a travel job right now ith such...

15. Overweight travel nurses!!

    miam replied to namroRN's topic in Travel

    jtmarcy12: dont hate me because i have a hard time gaining weight :). I do sympathize with people who are overweight, even though i have never completly understood it. Like i said, sometimes i get...