Too soon for travel nursing?

[Jdamitz2]

So I've been thinking about going into travel nursing for a little while now. My current nursing experience if have is 6 months working on a med/surg and ofter pulled to tele and about 4 month of ED experience. Currently have only my ADN but in 6 months should have my BSRN. I was wondering if I have enough experience to be a candidate for travel nursing or should I stay where I'm at. Idealy when I travel I would love to stay in the ED environment but pretty open.

[NedRN]

2 years in a specialty is recommended and usually required.

[Underthemoonicp6]

You seem to be light on experience but only you will know when you're ready. I worked ICU right out of school and only worked for just over 1 year before I started traveling. I was told my multiple people, including recruiters, that I'm not ready. But only you know you. There's a lot of anxiety as a new nurse and some people get over that sooner than others. I got to the point where I could go into work every day and feel like I could provide top notch care to any type of pt to walk in the door as well as be a resource for other nurses. At that point I said to myself that I'm ready. If you feel like you're the type of person who catches on quickly and feel confident in your skills, then give it a little bit more time and go for it. Also focus on building great relations with your supervisors because you'll be asking for their reference and a great reference along with confidence can go a long way. I'm not entirely familiar with CEN or if there are minimum hours needed before you can take it but maybe that would be a good idea to make yourself more marketable. I got my CCRN as soon as I could in order to build my case to hospitals.

It should be noted however that you will not be a hospital's 1st choice for any assignment. You might not go to a popular market right away and you should be flexible. I wanted to go to Seattle for my summer assignment but I didn't even get an interview because that's a popular destination that time of year and why would a hospital interview someone with less than 2 years experience over someone who has 5 years? As long as you're willing to be flexible and you feel good about yourself as an ER nurse, I think you could start thinking about it soon.

[Azariahjoe]

Yes i am sure you can get to experience quite reasonable things there. The most basic thing is to observe everything comes around so that can make you well in majority of the terms which goes right reasonably.