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I am really interested in becoming a traveling nurse. I was just wondering if there was anyone who is a travel nurse that could share experiences with me. What is it like? Is it as exciting and glamorous as it sounds?

~May

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i am also interested in traveling nursing, I am with May on this one, I too would like hear some experiences. Thank You All

Natasha

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Specializes in Emergency.

Try browsing through some threads in the Travel Nurse Forum. You'll find lots of stuff there.

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i am too interested in becoming a traveling nurse, and would like to hear some of the experiences too.

Natasha

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I think you need to have some steady hospital experience before you can go into those contracts.

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i am too interested in becoming a travel nurse. I did some research about it, and found i to be very interesting too. But I too would like to know the answer to May's question, about whether traveling nursing is really exciting.

Natasha

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i am interested in becoming a travel nurse too. I did research about it, and it does sound interesting and exciting, but is it really? I too would like to know if it really is as it claims to be.

Natasha

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OHHHHHHHH my Gosh, i am sorry for the many posts, i thought they didn't go through, because a page showed up on my screen stating that there was an error, and didn't know that the reply post had already went through. So don't think i replied so many times on purpose. LOL

natasha

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I've thought about it, but I think I'm going to go for my BSN after I get my ADN, then work for a while, then start applying to CRNA school. But I might travel for a year or so just to see what it's like.

Anyway, I have a cousin that did it and she loved it. She pretty much got to pick her locaiton, and she had a lot of say in negotiating her hours (I think she'd have to work a certain number of hours but she got a lot of say on days worked, ect..). And traveling nurses get paid very well. She told me one time that she knew of a place offering a $250 per day bonus to work shifts because they needed nurses so bad, and that's not including regular hourly pay they got. So I guess if you're single and not tied down then travling nursing might be fun to do. But I'd say it would be smart to already have some experience before traveling.. I mean, you wouldn't want to come straight out of school and then travel 300 miles away for your first nursing job. But that's just me...

Does that count as a story? ;)

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