Travel nurse experienceS

[Rey Missy]

I have experience almost 9 years work in OR, outside The United States (UK and Singapore). I am in the United States now (new comer), and interested to be a travel nurse. I have no experience working in the U.S. Could you share your thoughts or experience, and would it be difficult for me to do this new challenge?

[NedRN]

Having worked here and the U.K., I can safely say your fundamental skills will be fine - although based on my UK experience, you might find the workload higher because of less support.

Your big issue will be charting and understanding medical legal issues and I think you need to shadow a nurse here for a couple of weeks, or even pay an educator for 20 hours or so. Read a US OR text for starters. OR travel pays big right now so if you could swing it and perform, that is better than going staff.

You can talk to some large agencies to see if they clients willing to give you extra orientation - demand is high enough it might work.

Going staff is the easy way to go and would help with immigration status if needed. A good staff job will pay you full pay for the orientation you need that you are very unlikely to find as a traveler. The downside is the 18 or 24 month contract you will have to sign.