Also another tip is that is is much much easier/faster for US Nurses to get licensed in Australia or New Zealand or the UAE (ie: Dubai) than it is in the United Kingdom right now. Recently, The UK started requiring American nurses to physically go to the UK in advance, take a course over there lasting about 5 weeks (without working!), pass a test, and then return home, wait (weeks/months) for the results and processing before the license is issued. Unless you are relocating there, its really not a realistic destination right now for an "overseas stint".