Travel Nursing

[ailailuj44]

I have now been out of nursing school and working as an RN for almost 1 year (it will be one year in June), and I am getting more and more curious about travel nursing. I want to see the country and gain more experience as a nurse. I am not married but I would love to bring my boyfriend and my dog along. I am wondering if he would be allowed to live with me in whatever housing they provide, (or do we have to be married?).

[Southernkitten]

So how do you get the experience necessary to jump in and be the all around expert that travel nursing sounds like it needs? I graduate in May 09 and have a contract with my local, 300 bed hospital for two years. I'd like to apply to travel nursing at that time - but maybe I should switch to the large teaching hospitals an hour away for a year or two first? What is the plan? I am pretty old, so time is of the essence :)

[futureRNtraveler08]

I work at a 40 bed med/surg hospital in Iowa. I have been there as an RN for 15 months now and I am bored. I don't get floated to OB or ICU and when I do I don't really learn much that would help me because they give you the med/surg level pt's or the pt's that are ready to go home. I am trying to sign up with local agencies to see how I would like traveling and hope to start traveling in March next year.