Samc144

Re reading through the comments and it bothers me how snarky people are being to your post. I completely understand how you're feeling, I'm at that age where a good chunk of people I know are engaged, already married, pregnant with baby number 3, etc. Meanwhile I'm only just starting my career. Yes 28 is young, and times are different, people aren't getting married and having kids as young, but you can't help the way you feel (I feel the same way). So ignore all the people who might be making you feel bad or silly for wondering if you're too old. You do you and (hopefully) everything else will fall into place.

Man I feel like I wrote this post myself! I will be 28 next month, very single (borderline cat lady), and am itching for more but I also do want to settle down some day. For right now I'm taking a break from the dating scene and I'm gonna travel on my own for a while. I'm halfway through my first assignment and it has been really great so far. I just signed a contract for october to march in San Diego, so hopefully that will be a good experience for me as well. I have 2 years experience sub acute rehab (very intense rehab---17 to 20 patients with trachs/piccs/peg tubes/ wounds etc) and one full year med surg at a 600 bed teaching hospital. I probably should have stayed at least 6 more months at my full time job before traveling but an opportunity came up I just couldn't pass and I don't regret it for a second. Make sure you are confident in your abilities (but like someone on this site said when I asked around a few months ago, confident does not equal competent) and invest in a good recruiter. Good luck! Please message me if you want!

Thank you for all the advice. I am starting to feel like I definitely need to wait at the very least one full year... I have waited this long, a few more months or a year won't kill me. For a little clarification: I am certified to work with tele patients, although at the moment that is it. They will ACLS certify me in the next few months, and then I will be qualified to take ISCU (surgical step down basically, those patients who require q2hr checks, etc). Our floor does pull us from time to time as needed, and everyone rotates. I have been lucky to not be pulled yet (or so I thought), but I will start to offer to float when it is necessary to get this experience. I really appreciate the feedback. It helps to talk to more people who have done it, or at least you know more about it than the people I know in the nursing field. (and for the record I wasn't at all offended by the suggestion to check out FB. I am following a few good travel nursing pages.)

Thanks for the input. I'm not sure what it is that makes me want to do travel nursing so badly, but I've wanted to do it for as long as I've wanted to be a nurse. I've been Doing research and speaking with a lot of people who have done it. They all love it. When I'm online and reading other people's experiences, of course there are people who hated it and would never recommend it to anyone. I guess it just depends on the individual. I'm going to continue to do research before I make any commitments.

Hello! I was hoping to get some advice from some more experienced nurses. I am currently working on a med surg floor for about 5 months. Previously I was working at a "skilled nursing" facility in a sub acute rehab for two years. This is my first med surg job, and other than clinicals it's the only hospital experience I have. I have been in touch with a recruiter for a travel Nurse agency for a little over a year, and she has patiently been keeping up with me while I've gone from sub acute to med surg and completed my BSN. We are talking now to start looking for my first travel assignment in the next few months, but I was hoping for some advice on whether or not it is too soon to start traveling. Some people say I should stay for one full year where I am now, a few say two years. I desperately want to start travel nursing, and I am feeling much more confident in my med surg abilities. I also would feel bad for making my recruiter wait another few months for me to take an assignment with her (which is silly I know). I just dont want my desire to start this new journey as aoon as I can as well as the eagerness from my recruiter to put me in a situation where I might be in over my head or out of my league since I am still pretty new to the field. If anyone has any advice I would greatly appreciate it! Thank you. -Sam