Travel Nurse

[sbrunken]

I am going to start nursing school in a couple months and I have been thinking a lot about the job. I'm very interested in traveling after college but I don't know how that would fit in to the job. I've been told by counselors at college that they can place me at a job in the place I would like to live. Is it possible that I could have a hospital I work at in the place I plan on coming back to after traveling but then be placed somewhere in the world for a year or so? I've been looking into travel nursing but it seems my location would change often.

Thanks.

[Ruby Vee, BSN]

Travel nursing is something you do after you've been a nurse for at least two years, in the specialty in which you'd like to travel. So that's a ways in the future for you. Travel assignments are usually 13 weeks, but you can often extend them for another 13 weeks. I've known travelers who will stay in an area for a year or two, but change assignments within that area or hospital. One traveler I know as been at my hospital for nearly two years, and she's worked her way through four different ICUs. On the other hand, I've lived in the midwest, the east coast, the midwest, the west coast, in cowboy country and now the east coast again. (In forty years -- ex-husband was in the Air Force.) As far as being placed somewhere in the world for a year or so -- not sure what that means. After you get a couple years of experience, you can do something like Doctors Without Borders -- is that what you're asking?

[TheCommuter, BSN, RN]

Moved to the Travel Nursing forum: https://allnurses.com/travel-nursing/

[Wolf at the Door, BSN]

The answer to your kind of confusing question is NO. You probably need to look into Military Nursing.