Nurse Practitioner Travel Assignments

[Alisabeth, BSN, MSN, DNP]

I wanted to share my experience since when I was looking for resources and post for NP travel assignments, there were very few of them.

I did travel nursing as an OR nurse for 2 years and loved it. After I went back to school for my NP, I knew I wanted to travel again. Unfortunately, the market is a little different for NP vs. RN. I am family nurse practitioner, I worked for a year in neurosurgery, since I had the surgical background. Most of the travel nurse practitioner assignments are through locum tenen recruiters, but some travel nurse companies also have typical 13 week travel assignments. Assignments vary from maternity/vacation coverage, shortages, locum to perm, etc. There are outpatient clinics in all types of specialties, inpatient, surgical, home health assignments.

Websites:

Locumtenen.com (The best one)

Comphealth.com

allstarrecruiting.com

advancepractice.com

Indeed.com

Aureusmedical.com

These websites are a good place to start. Most require 1-2 years experience. However, they are quite a few assignment who will consider and accept new grads. They pay is excellent, just like in travel nursing. Housing, airfare/travel, rental car, gas mileage, licensing, malpractice is all included. I do not know if medical insurance is covered through these assignments, and I am on my husbands plan so I did not think to ask. I am doing a one month assignment, and health insurance was not offered. It could be available on longer assignments. I am now going to Maine for 6 weeks, and then Texas for 4 weeks. I enjoy the shorter assignments but they have long term assignments as well. I hope this helps for any nurse practitioners that want to start traveling. It's a lot of fun, a great experience. and good money!

[Nccity2002, MSN, RN]

Thanks!!

[tee17]

hi, i'm glad i stumbled upon your post because i want to be a nurse practitioner or anesthetic also but recently became interested in travel nursing job.. i'm in my junior year of college as a nursing student and have a year and a semester until i graduate, what i cannot decided upon is if it would be better to get a year or so experience then get my masters after that i can do travel nursing or a year experience or 2 , travel nurse, then masters?? i do not know much about incentives and such but i want to go to a route where i can enjoy my early 20s and earn money ; thank you lots!