New Nurses - DON'T TRAVEL

[acc1223]

So, we have had travel nurses who have been nurses for ~6 months and have started traveling because the rates have gone insane. HOW DARE YOU!! I understand there are anomalies to any system given the right circumstances but you have no business traveling unless you have the experience to do so. The hospitals you are traveling to have no obligation to train you to be nurse. I have encountered several travel nurses who have no idea what they are doing. We even had a mental health nurse who decided she wanted to be an ICU nurse and they GAVE her a contract. How ludicrous; we are not THAT desperate.  These are peoples' lives at stake and because you want to make some money you think it is okay to crap shoot their chances. PLEASE stop; get proper training and then travel.  

[Tainted Formula, LVN, EMT-P]

Alot of nurses are chasing money, but I agree there needs to be some policy set in place by the hospitals, but with all that has happened with the nursing field do to covid there has to be a better way to do things vs throwing people in to fulfill shortages in department