Travel Nursing- international countries

Silverdragon102, BSN · Jul 30, 2005

Hi, I am a senior nursing student (I graduate in December) and I am very interested in doing travel nursing. I have a few questions... 1) does anyone know of a good website where I can find a lot of good travel nursing agencies, and 2) I am also very interested in the idea of travelling internationally... where is a good resource for this as well, and how does a IL license from the USA carry over to international practice? Thanks in advance...
Jessica

In the UK we don't have travel nurses just agency. Your IL licence does not carry over to the UK like ours doesn't carry over to the US, although you will not have to sit any UK nursing exams. :) You will have to go through the NMC (our governing body) to get your licence OK'd to work in the UK also from september there are some new stuff coming in re foreign nurses from a non EU country. As an agency nurse you could travel within the UK and nurse but the agency you belong to should have national offices and contracts with hospitals, but agency work isn't always a guarentee job and shifts may get cancelled.

Hope you gets sorted in what you would like to do. As a RN opportunities are available world wide :)

suzanne4, RN · Jul 30, 2005

You will need to get licensed in what ever country that you wish to go to. Even your Illinois license is only good in Illinois and not other states, you will need to obtain a license for each state that you wish to work in.

The exam also needs to be done in the language of the country, even if you were going to work in an English speaking facility. Then there are immigration issues for each country as well. Same as for a foreign nurse who wishes to work in the US.

My suggestion right now would be to get at least one year of experience before you even start looking at doing the travel thing. There are not too many countries that use the travel nurse the way that we do. Simple example, even Canada doesn't. And any company is going to require that you have minimum of two years of experience before they will even look at you.

nutella, MSN, RN · Jul 31, 2005

Hi, I am a senior nursing student (I graduate in December) and I am very interested in doing travel nursing. I have a few questions... 1) does anyone know of a good website where I can find a lot of good travel nursing agencies, and 2) I am also very interested in the idea of travelling internationally... where is a good resource for this as well, and how does a IL license from the USA carry over to international practice? Thanks in advance...
Jessica

We have some kind of agencies in Germany as well but I agree with Suzanne on the importance of working experience . I worked for an agency which sent me to different hospitals and units and without experience I would not have been able to make that job!

nutella

suzanne4, RN · Jul 31, 2005

Many countires will have per diem agecnies, just like we do in the US, but this is quite different from travel nursing where they pay for your apt, etc.

Which ever way you do it, you still need licensure in that country, as well as permission to work via immigration, and that usually takes months, if not years. And that is for each country.