Advise for travel nursing ?

[Joanne15]

i am currently a nursing student and I graduate in December. Yesterday I accepted a position at my hospital for an intermediate, short stay unit. There we will see a ton of different patients and overflow from ED. They usually stay up to around 3 days.

I start in February 2020. I know travel nursing usually takes 2 years experience. I plan on doing 2 years on the short stay unit then try and do travel. I know it’s not a specialty, but is there any advise on how I can use this unit to transition into travel nursing ??

I am also single with no kids so I kind of want to take the opportunity now to travel around and get new experiences at different hospitals.

[Silverdragon102, BSN]

Moved to the Travel Nursing forum

[NedRN]

I'm not convinced that two years in short stay is a good grounding for travel. Diverse experience is always a good thing, but not specific enough for most assignments. I'd try for a transfer to a different department after one year. Along the same track would be medsurg and telemetry. Consider ED. A year of short stay, and another year in medsurg would be sufficient. You might need a bit more for ED but some do travel successfully after one year ED.

Anyway, after one year, some specialty or another may be calling to you as an area you would be interested in.