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If I continue to do travel nursing I would try to target just orthopedics. That being said every facility has their own policies/guidelines and everything is different (equipment/supplies, surgeon preferences, even how the surgeries are done). It's like hitting the reset button so I feel it's as similarly challenging as picking up other services. I also just got started with my first travel contract so I'm probably not the best reference for that input.

Yes it is a travel contract

Yeah I can do breaks/lunches in any room with ease. I actually just started a contract in an all orthopedic department last week.

Hi all, I've been an RN and done orthopedic surgery for 2.5 years at level 1 trauma center. I signed up for 3 recruiters for travel nursing and I'm told by several that my skills checklists aren't the most ideal for traveling. I do almost all orthopedics and lack experience in general, neruo, cv. I appreciate the honesty, it's just very discouraging to hear from the start. I'm super good with ortho and confident I can pick up general service/cases, depends on the scrub tech I'm paired with too I guess. Any thoughts or opinions on this? Thanks!

Coming up on 2 years of experience as an OR nurse soon. I didn't think about travel OR nursing as much up until now knowing that I needed to focus on improving my skills before taking the leap, but I'm still very unsure and hesitant. My biggest concern is if I would be able to be proficient enough in a whole new environment and people with no orientation in the OR. I work in a level 1 trauma center and seemingly do every type of orthopedic surgery. I wouldn't try it until I get my AORN certification which requires 2+ years of OR experience anyway. Any response would be much appreciated especially from anyone whose got experience in this department.

Thanks for the response! Yeah all of the kaplan review courses/tests that I've taken suggest scoring 60-65% or better, but I've also heard that scoring 50% is ok so I don't really know what to beleive at this point. I haven't tried uworld yet but I'm thinking I will if I don't pass my first time.

Hello all, I have my nclex scheduled in a little over 2 weeks and I am absolutely terrified. I've been studying for over 9 weeks now but I can't seem to bring my scores up to "kaplan passing standards". My kaplan qbank average is roughly 56% but without all the select all that apply it is 63%. I also rented the ncsbn course and averaged around 65% on all the questions there. Are these scores good enough for me to feel more secure about passing the nclex? I just feel so discouraged because they are consistently lower than my class averages