Looking into travel nursing

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Hello:) I am currently still a student at UT health and science center in San Antonio Texas. However my husband and I are VERY interested in trying to get a traveling nurse/ or just a nursing job in Hawaii. Though I do not graduate till may this coming year, I am really trying to get some tips on living/working in Hawaii. Such as great agency to work for? Do they hire new grads or should I get a year of experience first? Good neighborhoods if working in Honolulu? Really just some over all good advice about moving as a traveling nurse to work in Hawaii. My husband and I know it is a major adjustment. But really love traveling and new adventure and have Always wanted to live in Hawaii.

How hard do you think it would be for a med surg nurse with 1 year experience to get hired ?

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How hard do you think it would be for a med surg nurse with 1 year experience to get hired ?

Mursec, you should be able to find travel assignments very easily.

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Could be easy, but it may not be an assignment you like when you get there. Remember you are competing with many other medsurg nurses for many other agencies. The jobs left for you are likely ones no one else will do if they have an honest recruiter who tells them the truth about the working conditions at the hospital who will take you.

Also, you may feel comfortable at your only nursing job so far. Do you think you could adapt quickly to a completely different patient population with conditions you've never seen, higher acuity, worse nurse patient ratios, different computer programs, different culture and policies, horrible management, and minimal orientation? No matter what you think the answer is, you don't have enough experience to have good judgement about your abilities yet. I would recommend another year of experience and then reconsider. See if you can move to a different floor at you hospital to nroaden your experience.

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My husband and I hope to go to Hawaii some day on an assignment. He has been there. But I would love to visit.

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