Re: Where does my experience fit?
Well, a questions for you.....
In the hospice job you are doing now, are you doing home visits or is it an inpatient hospice?
Generally speaking, one has to have a minimum of a year in a given specialty area to do travel nursing. The OR is out if you have never worked in OR. Honestly, probably ER and ICU are out too. I've not done ER, but I'm sure you have to have multiple certificiations: TNCC, ACLS, PALS, ENPC, CATN just to name a few and know how to do all the steps in those certifications. In ICU, you have a start on some of those skills with vented patients but you also have to have ACLS as a minimum, not to mention being able to titrate multiple drips, work with invasive lines (Swans, art lines, etc.), comfortable with heart monitors, sometimes balloon pump experience and recovering open hearts are required skills.
I would say if you are at an inpatient hospice, you probably could do med-surg travel (even though you hated it). Or, you may have to pick what interests you and go back to the hospital, get a year of training and then hit the road!
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