Travel Nurse Question

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Hello,

At one of my clinical sites there is a travel nurse. She always says things like "oh, I am the scum travel nurse." Last week she told me she loves being a travel nurse because when you are on an assignment with difficult nurses you know it is only temporary. But then she will say something negative like above. I try to ask her questions about being a traveling nurse but either she doesn't like me or she just isn't very chatty.

I thought travel nursing was glamorous, are travel nurses treated poorly? If so, why? Are they looked down on?

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Specializes in Education, FP, LNC, Forensics, ED, OB.

hello, mybsnin06.

i moved your thread to the travel nursing forum for a better response.

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Different people / Nurses, different "attitudes". Sad to read, it sounds like this Nurse has a poor attitude and may have been treated poorly.

It has been my experience, that I have been treated well, for the most part in the many years I have experienced Agency Nursing and Nurse Entrepreneurship. I have had some bad experiences but it is safe to say it was based on an unfriendly Nurse not necessarily the attitude of the facility I was contracted for.

Feel free to read through the many threads on this Forum and Agency Nursing:

https://allnurses.com/forums/f111/

and Nurse Entrepreneur:

https://allnurses.com/forums/f56/

These Forums are dedicated to those Nurse Specialties that Travel, work for Agencies (local or long distance), or those that Independently or Subcontract to facilities or provide Nursing Services as a Business.

night ;)

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