Pros and Cons of A Travel Nurse?

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Student nurse wanting more information about travel nursing.

Please comment and thanks!

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Have you tried Googling it? Or even reading a few threads here? You said "more information". What do you already know? Open ended questions are a poor use of a forum.

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I've read many of the threads on here which are very informative. But it's an assignment that I have to try and start my own thread. Which is hard if there are already many other threads about my topic of interest.

I'm very interested in Colorado, are there travel nursing opportunities there or are the opportunities in places where the weather is tropical?

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Specializes in Complex pedi to LTC/SA & now a manager.

If you need to start a thread as a student be truthful and state as much. Opportunities are in all 50 US states.

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I've read many of the threads on here which are very informative. But it's an assignment that I have to try and start my own thread. Which is hard if there are already many other threads about my topic of interest.

Actually if you know just a little about a topic, an intelligent question is easy to compose. For example, how is the travel pay in Colorado? How many travelers or travel companies are there? What is the best specialty to have to travel?

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Thanks for the advice everyone. But that is a question I had, what is the best specialty to have for travel nursing?

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Face palm.

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Great question! Short answer, I'm going to say ED is the sweet spot for the most available jobs and better pay than medsurg/tele/LTC entry sort of jobs without extra training years required. ED is a good jumping off spot for a switch to ICU later.

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Specializes in Emergency, Med/Surg.

Plus ER nurses are very rarely (if ever) required to float! :)

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