About to start travel nursing..worried about pulls

[stidget99]

I am planning on joining the travel nursing team and after reading through these threads, I am really concerned about having to take pulls. I guess I assumed that if I signed for a med/surg, I would not be working in ICU, L&D, ER, etc. I am not qualified to work these units. Can anyone give me some insight? Do I need to put off my plans to do the travel nursing until I get experience in these other areas?

[suzanne4, RN]

You would only be pulled to units that you are trained in, or at least should be. You could be pulled to other med-surg units. You normally will be assigned to one unit as a home base.

But you also need to feel comfortable with being put just into about any situation. If you haven't done any agency work in your own home area, I highly recommend that you try that first.

[RRN]

I am planning on joining the travel nursing team and after reading through these threads, I am really concerned about having to take pulls. I guess I assumed that if I signed for a med/surg, I would not be working in ICU, L&D, ER, etc. I am not qualified to work these units. Can anyone give me some insight? Do I need to put off my plans to do the travel nursing until I get experience in these other areas?

You can have which units you will float to written into your contract. Carry that with you at all times and pull it out if you need to.

This might limit the assignments you get. Or you can chose a speciality where there is no chance of you being floated.

That's what I did.