HH Travel Position

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Does anyone do HH travel? Would you reccomend it? What challenges do you find aside from the obvious with new territory? What are the perks?

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Specializes in COS-C, Risk Management.

What do you mean by HH travel? A travel nursing agency that is trying to staff for a home health company? I would avoid those. If those agencies can't get locals to work for them, there's a darn good reason. The only perk I can think of is it's generally better money, but no amount of money is worth working for some of these places.

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I've seen ads for this before but also think there has to be something very wrong that they can't get local people to staff their cases. I can only imagine those bad cases that have gone through the available agencies and available nurses in the community.

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Not all that bad, I am currently travelling in home health right now.

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Dave tell me......what part of the country have you done travel in?

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West coast, currently in Cali, Bay area.

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I talked to a recuriter the other day, she said it was formerly not common to have lot of HH travel jobs but it is rapidly growing, she placed 10 Hh nurses that week. As far as why? Its not really any different as to why all the other hospitals 7 facilities need travlers, they dont have enough staffing. Alot of HH agencies have a high turnover, some nurses enter it and never having done it before hate it due to the extra paper work and the autonomy you have and they feel more secure in a structured enviornment and quit and go back to hosp.

I would never want to travel in certain cities I can think of right now but there are some it prob wouldnt be to bad like the smaller rural areas, I am thinkin about it for next summer but wonder how hard it would be in a totally new city? not knowing where anything is at. Even with a navigator it would be scary I think.

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