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Thank you so much for your insight!! I see how easy it can be to get all wrapped up in the money and exotic locations, but I have to more honest with myself and become a better nurse first.

Hi there! I am a 29 yr old working in a SICU. I started in June of 16' so I have about eight months of experience at this point. I feel slightly more comfortable than a month or two ago, but still get those moments of, "What am I doing?" We see sepsis, a little neuro (fresh crain's w/EVD's, GI surgeries gone bad, DKA, post codes, Resp failures/excaberations, we are kind of a overflow catch all most of the time. My wife expressed an interest for me to possibly doing travel nursing, which I think would be awesome. I do understand traveling at this very point would be out of the question because of my experience. I guess that would be my biggest point of weakness. Just feeling unprepared. I work at large learning hospital that has a couple nursing schools and a medical school attached to it, so I think I might be "babied" at times. So the idea of going to a another ICU is a little intimidating. So, after about two years of experience should I look for ICU assignments or something less stressful for traveling? Any other input/fyi about travel nursing is welcomed too. Of course I have a million other questions but I know how to search the boards. Thanks!