Best Travel Companies?

[speedynurse, ADN, BSN, RN, EMT-P]

I am *possibly* thinking of going into travel nursing. I have ER experience with staff/preceptor/triage/charge experience and more recently pre-op/PACU experience (less than a year on that). I am planning on staying a full year at my current job, but want to move to be closer to family and just see other parts of the US. I definitely don’t want to do travel nursing forever. What are the benefits and downsides of travel nursing? Is it difficult to find temp housing? I am looking into possibly Travel Nurse Across America or Standard Healthcare. 

[DeDe245]

I suggest doing more reading, research, planning to have the best experience. Many companies supply housing and some with multiple options. It's something to be negotiated like everything else.

Be careful once you travel you may never want to go back perm at least some of us like me.

[hcurry9]

Hi! What did you wind up doing? I'm in the process of trying to pick a company

[guest1168940]

Hi I was a traveler for several years and the companies I worked with were absorbed by another company American travel I think but have worked with three and they were all the same but you just need to be clear about floating to units in your skill set or what you will accept, like in Scottsdale AZ they hired four travelers for ICU but floated us almost every shift to med surg or Tele and we learned that they really needed help in med surg snd gad plenty of local travelers for ICU who worked there for years.  Some have a system of hospitals and will have you even go to several in the same week or mandatory overtime. Also twice I showed up to terrible apartments one was filthy and had a three story walk up in Ohio and I think they just see what they can get away with, I never moved into that one and they had a really nice one a day later. Happened on two different assignments. So have emergency credit cards for any possibility. 
 

I am not trying to turn you off to it, it was very stressful the first week and then it was fine. Most of the assignments were great and it’s really fun to go to other places and usually the travelers hang out together and go to the beach or out to dinner etc.

Aldo they usually reimburse for your license and travel like flight to Hawaii etc.

 

good luck 

[NedRN]

American Mobile Nursing has absorbed more agencies than any other company. Mostly they seem to be going with the strategy of maintaining the brand names of the agencies they buy, but who they own is usually a very open secret (I can post a very long list), and even if they didn't reveal corporate ownership when first applying at a different brand, you soon get some AMN document or have to do something on an AMN website.