Travel Nurse Companies for New Grad?

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I really want to do travel nursing - it's what I've always wanted to do. Is there a company that will allow new nurses to do so?

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Specializes in NICU, ICU, PICU, Academia.

Do you understand that travel nurses get one-two days of orientation and are then expected to be a fully functioning member of the staff? Every reputable travel company requires a minimum of one to two years experience. For good reason.

Go get that experience and then happy traveling!

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

No. Travel nurses need 1-3 years experience as they are sent on assignments with no orientation and expected to walk in and start working. New grads need a facilitated orientation. No facility is going to pay an agency for inexperienced nurses who need training

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I've been working for 6 months at a hospital.

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Specializes in Education, FP, LNC, Forensics, ED, OB.

Thread moved to Travel Nursing forum.

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Specializes in Complex pedi to LTC/SA & now a manager.
I've been working for 6 months at a hospital.

Minimum is 1 preferably 2 or more years

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Specializes in ICU / PCU / Telemetry / Oncology.
I've been working for 6 months at a hospital.

Why don't you go ahead and start traveling then (if anybody will take you with 6 months experience, and that's doubtful)? You're not listening to our advice anyway. Might as well learn the hard way. #givingupontheinsistent

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Specializes in ED, ICU, MS/MT, PCU, CM, House Sup, Frontline mgr.

Please get way more experience! A few years ago a possible new grad (definitely a newer nurse) killed a patient as a travel nurse because she lacked experience:

https://allnurses.com/nursing-news/patient-dies-under-621207-page7.html

Scroll down to Esme12's post, there is actually a link to the article included in the poster's comments. If the newspaper link does not work you can skim the entire thread and get the details and/or you can head to your local library and read the archives.

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Specializes in Med-Surg, Travel RN.

6 months of experience - please wait before you start traveling. I have been a nurse for 8 years and I have been traveling for 5 years. I have a hard enough time adjusting to each facility. If I had to adjust and be a new nurse at the same time with 2 days of orientation to the unit I would be a hot mess.

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I hace 20 years of nursing experience and some days I find travel nursing very tough!!! You don't have much of a support system either.

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A nurse with 6 months on the job, even at a level I trauma hospital doesn't have enough experience to travel, period! If you were at the hospital where I started (which is a level one with HEMS service) you would barely be off critical care orientation. Please just do your time, learn as much as you can, get all your certs and maybe even work at a few different hospitals so you can gain some perspective. You will be doing everyone including your patients and yourself a disservice if you try and strike out before you're ready...and trust me you are not ready! Your time will come :)

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I don't understand why you had to be "snot" when all I was giving was information about how long I had been working. I came here to ask a question and not to be talked down to. I understand why people are afraid to ask questions on here now.

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