Levimiller2000

I'm living in ocean beach while on assignment in San Diego. I love it here in this area.

I'm working in CA right now on a temporary license. I'm having difficulty obtaining my permanent license because I keep getting told they have not yet received my transcripts and I've paid my university to send them twice... To top it off the license evaluator at the board of nursing won't return my calls to help me figure out another way to get them to them. So frustrating... Has anyone else had these issues or is it just me???

thanks for the input.

Hey there California nurses. I am planning on moving to the Bay Area spring of 2013. I am NOT a new graduate nurse. I have been working the last 2 years as and emergency room nurse in a level 1 trauma center. I work with every kind of patient from barely alive trauma patients straight off the helicopter, intubated respiratory failure patients, to the patient with a small cut to their pinky finger that thinks they are going to die... Prior to the Emergency Department I worked cardiac step down and am quite comfortable with telemetry, EKG interpretation and hemodynamically unstable patients. All that being said, I'm trying to research what a realistic nursing salary for the Bay Area would be. Various searches online have returned various results. I plan to work in ER or would like to go to Cardiovascular ICU when I get there. Any help with this topic would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advanced!

Thanks for the replys. I'm probably going to take the supplied housing for my first couple of assignments until I can really feel everything out, but the suggestions are helpful for future job opportunities. Thanks everyone.

Hello everyone. I am going to be new to travel nursing in the very near future. I am working with a company trying to get the ball rolling and questions answered. I do have a question for all of you experienced travelers out there though and that is, how do you go about finding your own housing?? Do you call apartment complexes that offer furnished apartments and ask if they have very short term leases (same as your contract)?? Or is there some kind of travel nursing housing network?? It just makes more sense to me to find my own place to live and collect the housing allowance. Any help would be appreciated.

I don't know jack about sports, but I like to work on motorcycles in my spare time, so that gives me something to talk to male patients about. Especially if there is a motorcycle magazine laying out.