SFA Nursing student in Texas, Really Curious please help!

[Breezie_Love]

So I am currently going through the last bits of prerequisites before I get to apply for nursing school!! I really have an urge to travel and I have recently been looking into Travel Nursing as a goal I want to achieve to quench my travel thirst, but I am sort of confused as to how it all works. Is travel nursing strictly like careflight type jobs? Is ita hospital to hospital job? Do commercial airlines have travel nurses on board? A lot of what I have been reading about Travel Nursing conflicts and I just really would like to understand exactly what this job entitles, where I could work and how to go about doing so. Please give as much detail as you can! Pros and cons would be awesome too! Thanks!

[NedRN]

Just about any nursing job is available to travelers. Traditionally most travelers work at acute care hospitals for three months (13 weeks) contracts. You are an employee of a travel nurse company who rents you out to a hospital that cannot meet their staffing needs for whatever reason with permanent staff. The travel nurse company pays your hourly, provides housing local to the assignment hospital, and pays a stipend for travel expenses to the hospital and back home.

To become a traveler you typically need at least two years solid experience in a specialty. You are paid to hit the ground running when you get to an assignment, not to be trained.

Large companies including airlines may employ an occupational health nurse and this could be filled temporarily by a traveler. Flight nurses transport critical patients and there are travelers who do flight nursing.

No idea what travel nurse conflicts are. Could you give us an example?