Does travel nursing look good when applying to NA school

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Specializes in ICU.

Just curious, I am currently working in a medical surgical Icu, after my year is up here, I want to travel for a year...and then apply to NA schools, how do they look upon people who traveled....totally clueless what they would think about this !!!

Brooke :monkeydance: ( THis monkey is very appealing to me for some reason at 2 am, night shift makes your crazy sometimes, I'm laughing at a dancing monkey on the computer )

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Specializes in Anesthesia.

Hey Brooke,

Don't know how it is perceived overall but at the hospital I work at in Florida one of the travel nurses in the SICU was just accepted to the program at Barry University in Florida. So it must be okay. I would think most programs would look at it as you getting a broader scope of knowledge by experience how different hospitals accomplish the same goals...just my 2 cents.

Good Luck

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Specializes in ER/ICU, CCRN, SRNA (class of 2010).

Some one posted the same thing a few months ago. I think it is of little consequence as long as you got skills and you can get your recommendation letters. There are a few upsides to traveling, diverse experience and extra cash for school.

-Smiley

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Specializes in SRNA.

I worked at the Cleveland Clinic for a year and now have been traveling for a year, and I was accepted to St Mary's in Minneapolis...so I would just say make sure you get good letters of recommendation from the hospital you were staff at. Also, when you are traveling, you really have to throw yourself out there and show the staff at the hospital you are traveling at that you are a competent nurse and easy to talk to and get along with. Good Luck with everything!

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Specializes in MICU & SICU.

I would say to make sure that you only travel to reputable places that look good on your application. What you don't want to do is take an assignment in some 100 bed hospital with a 5 bed ICU. I am not sure how the preception of travel nursing is but you have to keep in mind that travellers can be dumped on at times. Some places will not give there travellers anything that is challenging and others will give them more than two people could handle.

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