Re: need help with travel experience
If you plan to work in ICU as a traveler then that is where you should get your professional nursing experience. Most reputable travel companies won't send you on ICU assignments unless you have at least a year of experience working in the unit. They might take you with less than a year of ICU experience if you were working in another critical care area (i.e. Stepdown). It might help to have some Med Surg experience if you are going to work in an SICU or MICU, but I don't believe it is a requirement.
However, you raise a good point about floating while on travel assignments. Invariably, when the unit census drops, travelers are usually the first to get floated out to med surg or tele. And, if you don't have your time management skills down its going to be rough going from an environment where you're used to having only 2 or 3 patients to one where you'll have 6 or more.
Just curious to know what your experience is with Med Surg, though. Have you worked as a CNA on a med surg floor? Otherwise, how do you know you don't like it?
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