texasrn91

Thank y'all so much for the information! It was really helpful. Maxona, I pretty much started at the crappiest hospital in my area, so I'm used to working in understaffed and under bad management. A lot of travel nurses have actually left my hospital after a few shifts because it was so bad. So at least if I get somewhere to a bad hospital, it won't be completely foreign to me haha. But thank y'all for y'alls help. It is something I definitely want to try at least once or twice.

So I've thought about travel nursing since nursing school, and I still am thinking about it. I'll hit my 2 year mark of experience in a few months. I want to travel the country so bad! I love to travel and have no obligations like kids or a serious relationship or anything like that. I just was kind of wondering does it get lonely? That's one of my main concerns. I don't really have any close family in any part of the country besides where I live. Also, is it easy to get day shift positions? I worked nights for a while and absolutely could not function on my days off. And another question I have is do you get bad assignments because you're not a full time dedicated employee to the hospital you're traveling at? I work at a very busy ER at a hospital in Texas, and we have a very high turnover rate. Therefore we frequently have travelers or agency nurses. I've worked there since getting out of school, and every time we have an agency or traveler, they get assigned to like holding ER patients or in the less critical area of our ER.