Travel Nursing

[Klori]

I am currently a nursing student, I graduate in May 2020. I have plans in moving to California once I graduate. However, I want to go the traveling nursing route. I wanted to know what agencies do y'all recommend and when do y'all think it's a good time for me to look for jobs.

[wildrosesRN, BSN]

I also wanted to start travel nursing right out of school. On top of that I also became frustrated I could not find a job near me until about 3 months after graduating (instead of applying for jobs I took time off to focus on NCLEX and lost casual job opportunities but instead I was able to focus on my weaknesses). I had looked into travel nursing and found a few programs designed for new graduates to travel nurse. Many of these programs had a 2 year sign up contract. The places I were offered was in Nebraska and Kansas. California may be difficult to start travel nursing in, the more desirable states to live and work in are typically harder to start travel nursing in.

Best of luck.

[javadown2, BSN]

22 minutes ago, wildrosesRN said:

I also wanted to start travel nursing right out of school. On top of that I also became frustrated I could not find a job near me until about 3 months after graduating (instead of applying for jobs I took time off to focus on NCLEX and lost casual job opportunities but instead I was able to focus on my weaknesses). I had looked into travel nursing and found a few programs designed for new graduates to travel nurse. Many of these programs had a 2 year sign up contract. The places I were offered was in Nebraska and Kansas. California may be difficult to start travel nursing in, the more desirable states to live and work in are typically harder to start travel nursing in.

Best of luck.

It's not really travel nursing now is it...if you have to sign a 2 year agreement. Your better served to do a nurse residency then go into travel nursing honestly. You can "travel" to a different state and find a residency anywhere, then your traveling, lol.