Chronic or Acute dialysis experience before doing traveling

[chill598]

Hi,

I recently graduated from nursing school this past May and I have recently starting working as a Charge Nurse at a dialysis center that treats patients with chronic renal failure. I would like to do travel nursing as a dialysis nurse, and I was told that you need at least one year of experience before you can travel. My plan is to do Chronic dialysis nursing for six months to learn that side of dialysis and I planned on doing six months of acute dialysis to work more with patients that are sicker. Do you all think that this is a wise decision to do before traveling or should I just stick with chronic? Will it look bad on my resume to just stay for six months? Please Help!

[81Bubbles, BSN, RN]

Depends where you want to travel. You can get travel assignments just in Chronic and a year would be much better than 6 months. If you think you want to do acutes. Then you'll want to get some experience with that first as well. Also do you plan on traveling with in the same company? Different dialysis companies have different procedures, different machines, and different computer programs.

[chill598]

As of now I am doing chronic and I would like to see the acute side of dialysis before I decide to travel. Yes I plan on traveling with the same company. Do you think it will look bad if I do 6 months chronic and then 6 months acute?