Travel Nursing After TPAPN

[Jameshickox]

Hello. I am a couple of months away from completing my TPAPN agreement and BON order. I have worked in acute rehab and psychiatric hospitals.

I really want to start traveling and not devote years to a single employees. Will I be able to work for a travel agency? How will I explain the circumstances behind the BON order since it involves patient safety issues.

[Recovering_RN]

Did you ever get a travel job? I still have 16 months left in TPAPN, but I hope to start traveling too, when I get out. I wasn't sure how difficult it is to get hired by a travel agency.

There will be no record of my participation in TPAPN, once I'm out, but I know they'll contact the employer who fired me. I know that hospital only ever provides start/end dates of employment and eligible for rehire: yes/no. They will say I am not eligible for rehire, so I guess I'll have to explain that. By that time it will have been 3 years since I was fired, and I will have 2 more recent employers since then.

As far as the "eligible for rehire?" question, I was told (who knows if it's true) that this is something that is answered, if asked. If they don't ask the question, then all they get is start/end dates. I'm not sure if "are they eligible for rehire" is a standard question all recruiters know to ask or not. Hopefully not! Because I've always wanted to do travel nursing, so that goal is what is keeping me going right now.