Travel Nursing in the UK from USA

[tamu07]

I am currently working in the USA as an RN. I graduated with my BSN last December and started work in January, so in a few months I will have been working for a year. My husband is still in school, but is looking at going to grad school overseas, possibly somewhere in the UK, like St. Andrews in Scotland. He will graduate in May 2015, so if he starts in August 2015, I will have been working as an RN for 2 and a half years. I'm wondering if anyone knows how complicated it would be to get on with a travel nursing company to work over there while my husband attends school. I have looked up some stuff online and have found conflicting ideas. Has anyone done this recently? Any information would be appreciated.

[babyNP., APRN]

Do a couple of searches on these forums; there is some good info. I got my registration in 2012 and detailed it in one of the threads.

Will you have permission to work on your husband's student visa? If so, that makes everything great because that's the most complicated part. If not, it's harder to get a visa to work unless you have specialty experience like NICU or OR, but I've heard there have been other contracts for some other specialties going around, but not advertised necessarily.

Start on the process early with the NMC (licensing body) if you want to go because it can take a long time and they are changing the requirements. Good luck, let us know how it goes.