I’m currently on my first travel assignment as a Mother-Baby nurse. Surprisingly, on the unit there are more travel nurses than there are staff nurses. I live 101 miles from my assignment. I do my 3 shifts in a row and drive back home. I still have my PRN job at my local hospital. Travel nursing is a great way to expand your knowledge base, network, and make great money.
I’m a mother baby nurse trying to start a travel assignment in September. How hard was it to get your first assignment? I also plan to stay PRN on my current floor.
@@amandag2089 It was easy to get started. My only struggle was trying to get an assignment no further than 2 hours from my house. So that put a limit on my options. It took two months to get the assignment I was looking for. Everything after that was just making sure I did my physical and online modules on time. Your agency will tell you everything you need to get done. 😏👍
@@ModernSideburns thank you! This is my struggle now. I want to find one close to home. I’m even willing to drive four hours but no more than that. Thanks for the info. So far I’m looking with aya healthcare and Flexcare hopefully I can find something soon.
@@amandag2089 I’m rooting for you! Something will come along it’s just a matter of when 😩 Stay patient and it’ll come to you 😊 I’m currently working with Host Healthcare and they have been great!
i felt bad for our travel nurses they get heavier assignments because charge nurse think oh well they make more money than us. I always help travelling nurses coz without them i am stuck with 7 patients .
Great content-so true on travel nursing. My travel assignment paid off my student loan in 2017. My goal is to pay cash for a house-1/3 there 😬 thank you for info on negotiating
I am not a travel nurse, but I am a new nurse. My unit used to be 100% COVID, and I have heard many nurses say that about travelers. I think it comes from a place of frustration. Many nurses felt like they were having to take on more patients and also got thrown into a patient population/work environment they didn't choose to be put in. I agree we should all be nice and respectful to travelers because we should be happy we have help!
I’m an LPN, I do local travel(2hrs away) on the weekends and my regular full time VA job M-F. I do get the heavier loads but like you said, travel don’t last always, it’s only 12hours, so it is what it is.
We’re very kind and fair to our travel nurses on my unit (medical Surgical icu). In general my unit is amazing and very team oriented. I’ll be leaving in one month to start travel nursing; I’ll miss my unit for sure.
Also as a traveler cna, I have gotten the worst of the worst from staff. Because I'm making as much as the charge nurse. Regardless of the fact I bust my hump and work circles around them. But I think they are so frustrated because even if they wanted to many staff can't get into traveling unless willing to give up their current job completely. Some hospitals stipulate they wait a year before taking a contract with their current hospital. My only gripe now is it seems agencies are trying to phase out travel cnas. I know texas is closed to cna travel contracts. But Florida completely breached my contract: nights to days, float resources to covid medsurg, etc. And my recruiter folder like a 2 dollar lawn chair. So I signed up with another agency. So now I'm looking into moving to a zero income tax state with open cna travel contracts. But the mortgage info is huge!! I'll be checking for the prep video, if none, I'm definitely interested. I'm about to buy a home after this contract.
Hi I just watch your TH-cam videos about travel nurse and I am not a travel nurse and I am not a nurse but i was thinking become a RN nurse and a travel nurse too and thank you for sharing your story I didnt not know that at all .thank you.
I get the same situation. I overheard a PCU tell another nurse that the travelers should get the hardest assignments. It's crazy bc they count our money. This is y I get upset when travelers talk about their pay n front of staff nurses.
@@oihcam22 Explain how giving 1 nurse all the high acuity patients makes sense. How does it help the patient? The money isn't coming out of ur pocket. Right now, the money is coming from the government, not the facility. N any situation, acuity levels of a units patients should be divided rightfully. Clocking some1s pay is simply being envious & unprofessional. When I worked full-time, I never cared that agency nurses made more money than me. I had full benefits, paid vacation & sick time. I appreciated them coming 2 help my unit & I helped them when they needed it. As a travel nurse, I come 2 help take a load off the units I assist, not b used as a work mule 4 nurses & CNAs who hate their job & sit around clocking peoples paycheck.
@@mistermilkman of course you shouldn’t give one nurse all the high acuity patients, that’s not even safe. Don’t make up statements in your head then respond to me like I said them.
I spoke with a travel tax agent and the 50 mile is a myth. What the irs looks at is what you do after a shift, if you can drive home after a shift and drive to work the next time that's not a travel job. But if you have to sleep to be able to drive home safely and can't make it to work the next morning after a reasonable amount of sleep, then that's a travel job. My agent heavily stressed about how the 50 mile rule is a myth and I've spoke with a lot of travel nurses who've said the same. But it all depends on the irs audit I guess lol people have gotten away with worse
I’m new to your channel and loving it already. I stuck myself at a hospital for 20yrs straight from school. Got paid a penny for ICU work.. now NP, wanna go into travel nursing. Never got that Covid money, I should have though. Anxious!!!! Any tips for me?
Oh and also I caught myself trying to refinance my home and but my contact ended abruptly while in the middle of a contract and I could not provided the paystub for a certain time and had to pull out. Basically when you start a new assignment initiate the process after the first 4 weeks.
Thank you so much for sharing your thoughts about travel nursing. Could you make a VDO about tips on hospital charting/documentation. One reason I am concerned is that how easy/difficult is it to learn how to chart. Is there something that you can prepare ahead of time. Thanks on advance.
Don't forget when you get cancelled by the hospital you are working as a traveller when the hospital cancels you for the day you lose part of your stipend. I tried to pickup extra shifts and none were available if you are fortunate to find a extra shift must be in that pay period. I was never told this and feel new travelers should be aware this could happen.
could you please do a video on ways to purchase a home as a travel nurse/ how to get approved from a loan? i’m an incoming nurse and also planning on investing in real estate and that would be super helpful!!!
Thanks for the video very informational. I’m thinking about travel nursing but hesitant. My question is when working in different states how was the transportation and if you wanted to choose your own housing. How did you go about finding good areas?
@@beebeeberlucern2464 yes!! I would love to see a video about the process as well considering that you’re a travel nurse. And, if having a home as an Airbnb is worth it.
I’ve been in labor and delivery for three years now w/ a ft & per diem position and really wanted to branch out to travel, however the difficultly travel nurses have proving their income to get a loan is holding me back because I really want to purchase my first home like neowww 😣
I’m just starting my first travel nurse job north but I’m in Canada. Im curious how it works here. What I know so far is my agency pays different rates based on how far you’re willing to work from home. Once you go a few hours away you make the max amount but if you stay within 40-60km you can have paid accommodations, however you make the minimum amount which is $10/hr CDN less then if you travel but even the minimum is far more then you’ll make directly from an LTC home or hospital. So far the only con seems to be the short contracts of 8 weeks but that also means the change to travel is high
Hello I am a new nurse in Canada who is interested in becoming a travel nurse sometime next year. Can you tell me about your experience becoming a travel nurse in Canada? How did you get started? What agency did you use? Would you know how it differs from USA travel nursing for example? Do you have a low taxable income without a high non-taxable income?
I love that the stipend in not taxable! I don’t want the Government to dip their dirty hands in that too! Then I would bring home less! Please don’t say it the way you’re saying it. Let’s keep more on our pockets please. Thanks
6:56 the way i always saw it as someone who doesn't travel yet is, these damn hospitals make enough to pay these travel nurse/tech pay, but refuse to give the regularly staffed techs/nurses a raise.
Great video! Great information! I have a very compassionate charge nurse on my travel assignment, so I get 4 days in a row on and I get to request my days off. Sometimes I get a day off In between several days on.
Im almost making one year working in the ER. And I’m planning on doing travel once I make a year. I’m a bit nervous though because I feel like they are just going to throw me without orientation. My own ER is one of the busiest ERs in the country. And I’ve never done Peds ER. But they might make me work peds. I wonder if I’ll be able to handle it.
They cannot do that to you. It’s written in your contract that you can only float to “like” units They can’t float you to a unit you have no experience in
Hi. Thanks for the great video. I'm wondering if you can address the following. I am a provider of travel nurse housing. I'm trying to find travel nurse discussion groups on FB in order to have discussions with travel nurses to find out what type of things they look for when seeking furnished accommodations. However, most of the travel nurses groups I've been able to find on that site seem to limit this in one of two ways. First, if you are a landlord (not a travel nurse) you can only join groups allow posting of properties, but no general discussion or questions. Second, for the groups that do allow general discussion and questions, you must be a travel nurses. Do you know of any groups that allow non-travel nurses to join for the purpose of general discussion and questions with travel nurses?
Thank you so much for this informative video! I’m currently a junior in high school interested in this career. Can travel nurses work in clinics or other healthcare facilities instead of hospitals?
I work in a clinic and had a travel nurse with us. She was amazing! We liked her so much we asked her to extend and she did as much as her agency would let her.
In the beginning of the video, thanks for sharing that info, but we're not asking for otherwise. We don't need the gov to take more than they already have. I'm so glad it's not counted bcz we do spend in order to provide our service accross country; food, transportation, etc... Honestly, if that was the only issue, many of us won't mind, especially if it credit is good.there r also health professional loans. Ask your bank and Google.
I’m junior in highschool and want to become nurse travel and my English isn’t that good are they gonna judge about my English idk in the future if I will know more ik now lol 😂
Im a newly nursing graduate here in Philippines, and will be taking the NCLEX soon in Chicago. Don't know if I should be a staff nurse first or go directly into travel nurse work. Does anyone have any insight or tips?
I’m currently on my first travel assignment as a Mother-Baby nurse. Surprisingly, on the unit there are more travel nurses than there are staff nurses. I live 101 miles from my assignment. I do my 3 shifts in a row and drive back home. I still have my PRN job at my local hospital. Travel nursing is a great way to expand your knowledge base, network, and make great money.
I’m a mother baby nurse trying to start a travel assignment in September. How hard was it to get your first assignment? I also plan to stay PRN on my current floor.
@@amandag2089 It was easy to get started. My only struggle was trying to get an assignment no further than 2 hours from my house. So that put a limit on my options. It took two months to get the assignment I was looking for. Everything after that was just making sure I did my physical and online modules on time. Your agency will tell you everything you need to get done.
😏👍
@@ModernSideburns thank you! This is my struggle now. I want to find one close to home. I’m even willing to drive four hours but no more than that. Thanks for the info. So far I’m looking with aya healthcare and Flexcare hopefully I can find something soon.
@@amandag2089 I’m rooting for you! Something will come along it’s just a matter of when 😩 Stay patient and it’ll come to you 😊 I’m currently working with Host Healthcare and they have been great!
Hi I wanted to ask do they pay for airplane traveling?
i felt bad for our travel nurses they get heavier assignments because charge nurse think oh well they make more money than us. I always help travelling nurses coz without them i am stuck with 7 patients .
I agree. I have mad respect for Travel Nurses. I wish I have the backbone to become one!
Great content-so true on travel nursing. My travel assignment paid off my student loan in 2017. My goal is to pay cash for a house-1/3 there 😬 thank you for info on negotiating
I am not a travel nurse, but I am a new nurse. My unit used to be 100% COVID, and I have heard many nurses say that about travelers. I think it comes from a place of frustration. Many nurses felt like they were having to take on more patients and also got thrown into a patient population/work environment they didn't choose to be put in. I agree we should all be nice and respectful to travelers because we should be happy we have help!
Thank you for your clarification of these things. I have been a nurse for years and now looking into travel nursing.
Thai was a great video for a newbie, tons of great tips! Thank you so much!
Another great video! Keep them coming
Another great video as always 👍🏾👏🏾🤗 Grey Anatomy my favorite show
I’m an LPN, I do local travel(2hrs away) on the weekends and my regular full time VA job M-F. I do get the heavier loads but like you said, travel don’t last always, it’s only 12hours, so it is what it is.
We’re very kind and fair to our travel nurses on my unit (medical
Surgical icu). In general my unit is amazing and very team oriented. I’ll be leaving in one month to start travel nursing; I’ll miss my unit for sure.
This video is so, so, helpful. Thank you so much I really appreciate it. Short video loaded with very important information. Thank you🙏🏾😍
Thank you for being straightforward. Can you tell about health insurance and pension benefits of travel nursing?
Great video!! I’m taking my first assignment in a couple weeks in Hawaii and you’ve been so helpful getting me prepared
How did it go for you
Thank you so much for sharing this girl! 🖤🖤
You're so welcome!
Great info. Thank you
Also as a traveler cna, I have gotten the worst of the worst from staff. Because I'm making as much as the charge nurse. Regardless of the fact I bust my hump and work circles around them. But I think they are so frustrated because even if they wanted to many staff can't get into traveling unless willing to give up their current job completely. Some hospitals stipulate they wait a year before taking a contract with their current hospital. My only gripe now is it seems agencies are trying to phase out travel cnas. I know texas is closed to cna travel contracts. But Florida completely breached my contract: nights to days, float resources to covid medsurg, etc. And my recruiter folder like a 2 dollar lawn chair. So I signed up with another agency. So now I'm looking into moving to a zero income tax state with open cna travel contracts. But the mortgage info is huge!! I'll be checking for the prep video, if none, I'm definitely interested. I'm about to buy a home after this contract.
Thanks for another informative video. Grey’s anatomy fan here.
This was really helpful!
Thanks I appreciate the info...valuable!!! I subscribed
Hi I just watch your TH-cam videos about travel nurse and I am not a travel nurse and I am not a nurse but i was thinking become a RN nurse and a travel nurse too and thank you for sharing your story I didnt not know that at all .thank you.
I have noticed that I tend to get the harder assignments but I do stick up for myself and make sure that I get a fair load
I get the same situation. I overheard a PCU tell another nurse that the travelers should get the hardest assignments. It's crazy bc they count our money. This is y I get upset when travelers talk about their pay n front of staff nurses.
@@mistermilkman why shouldn’t someone that’s getting paid more work harder...?
You should definitely be working harder if you’re getting paid more. That’s not unfair.
@@oihcam22 Explain how giving 1 nurse all the high acuity patients makes sense. How does it help the patient? The money isn't coming out of ur pocket. Right now, the money is coming from the government, not the facility. N any situation, acuity levels of a units patients should be divided rightfully. Clocking some1s pay is simply being envious & unprofessional. When I worked full-time, I never cared that agency nurses made more money than me. I had full benefits, paid vacation & sick time. I appreciated them coming 2 help my unit & I helped them when they needed it. As a travel nurse, I come 2 help take a load off the units I assist, not b used as a work mule 4 nurses & CNAs who hate their job & sit around clocking peoples paycheck.
@@mistermilkman of course you shouldn’t give one nurse all the high acuity patients, that’s not even safe. Don’t make up statements in your head then respond to me like I said them.
I’m thinking about going to school to become a travel nurse thank you 🙏🏿 for this enlightening video…
“It has to be 51 miles on the google” lol! You are super cute! Thank you for the great advice. I didn’t know about the house buying difficulties. Oof!
You are so welcome!
Very informative video I’m glad I saw this
I spoke with a travel tax agent and the 50 mile is a myth. What the irs looks at is what you do after a shift, if you can drive home after a shift and drive to work the next time that's not a travel job. But if you have to sleep to be able to drive home safely and can't make it to work the next morning after a reasonable amount of sleep, then that's a travel job. My agent heavily stressed about how the 50 mile rule is a myth and I've spoke with a lot of travel nurses who've said the same. But it all depends on the irs audit I guess lol people have gotten away with worse
I’m new to your channel and loving it already. I stuck myself at a hospital for 20yrs straight from school. Got paid a penny for ICU work.. now NP, wanna go into travel nursing. Never got that Covid money, I should have though. Anxious!!!! Any tips for me?
Thank you!
Oh and also I caught myself trying to refinance my home and but my contact ended abruptly while in the middle of a contract and I could not provided the paystub for a certain time and had to pull out. Basically when you start a new assignment initiate the process after the first 4 weeks.
Thank you so much for sharing your thoughts about travel nursing. Could you make a VDO about tips on hospital charting/documentation. One reason I am concerned is that how easy/difficult is it to learn how to chart. Is there something that you can prepare ahead of time. Thanks on advance.
Don't forget when you get cancelled by the hospital you are working as a traveller when the hospital cancels you for the day you lose part of your stipend. I tried to pickup extra shifts and none were available if you are fortunate to find a extra shift must be in that pay period. I was never told this and feel new travelers should be aware this could happen.
Thank u so much fr sharing this.
could you please do a video on ways to purchase a home as a travel nurse/ how to get approved from a loan? i’m an incoming nurse and also planning on investing in real estate and that would be super helpful!!!
Thanks for the video very informational. I’m thinking about travel nursing but hesitant. My question is when working in different states how was the transportation and if you wanted to choose your own housing. How did you go about finding good areas?
I'm a student but I want to think about my career and learn more about these nursing field your video helps alot
Im interested in the home buying video!
I think I may do one because I am in the process myself and it’s been a hard process
@@beebeeberlucern2464 yes!! I would love to see a video about the process as well considering that you’re a travel nurse. And, if having a home as an Airbnb is worth it.
I’ve been in labor and delivery for three years now w/ a ft & per diem position and really wanted to branch out to travel, however the difficultly travel nurses have proving their income to get a loan is holding me back because I really want to purchase my first home like neowww 😣
Because I wanted to travel africa to become a travel nurse international
Please make that video!! Please......
It’s probably better to qualify for your mortgage while you are a staff nurse and once you have closed double up on your payments.
I’d love a video tutorial about the home buying process
your wish is my command :)
th-cam.com/video/CNTJ1Y7OYuc/w-d-xo.html
Thank u
And I wanted to buy a home in africa and visit there too.so that the reason why
Bring the home video
I’m just starting my first travel nurse job north but I’m in Canada. Im curious how it works here. What I know so far is my agency pays different rates based on how far you’re willing to work from home. Once you go a few hours away you make the max amount but if you stay within 40-60km you can have paid accommodations, however you make the minimum amount which is $10/hr CDN less then if you travel but even the minimum is far more then you’ll make directly from an LTC home or hospital. So far the only con seems to be the short contracts of 8 weeks but that also means the change to travel is high
Hello I am a new nurse in Canada who is interested in becoming a travel nurse sometime next year. Can you tell me about your experience becoming a travel nurse in Canada? How did you get started? What agency did you use? Would you know how it differs from USA travel nursing for example? Do you have a low taxable income without a high non-taxable income?
I love that the stipend in not taxable! I don’t want the Government to dip their dirty hands in that too! Then I would bring home less! Please don’t say it the way you’re saying it. Let’s keep more on our pockets please. Thanks
Thanks
Welcome :)
6:56 the way i always saw it as someone who doesn't travel yet is, these damn hospitals make enough to pay these travel nurse/tech pay, but refuse to give the regularly staffed techs/nurses a raise.
Great video! Great information! I have a very compassionate charge nurse on my travel assignment, so I get 4 days in a row on and I get to request my days off. Sometimes I get a day off In between several days on.
Thank you for this! Did you do a video on purchasing a second house?
I did today! th-cam.com/video/CNTJ1Y7OYuc/w-d-xo.html
Anyone use a nanny/ babysitting service while bringing your kids on assignments? If so how did it go for you?
Is there any lpn traveler position .and how do you get compact license.
Im almost making one year working in the ER. And I’m planning on doing travel once I make a year. I’m a bit nervous though because I feel like they are just going to throw me without orientation. My own ER is one of the busiest ERs in the country. And I’ve never done Peds ER. But they might make me work peds. I wonder if I’ll be able to handle it.
Im interested to know what you did to prepare to buy another property and qualify for another loan.
Quick question: how is house buying in Ga and what part of ga is good for family with boys! 11 and 17????
Main thing I worry about is getting floated to a specialty I'm not experienced in. I'm LTACH/stepdown. I don't know ED, ICU, L&D, OR, etc.
They cannot do that to you. It’s written in your contract that you can only float to “like” units
They can’t float you to a unit you have no experience in
Where in Atlanta did you work? I live here looking at local travel now
Hi. Thanks for the great video. I'm wondering if you can address the following. I am a provider of travel nurse housing. I'm trying to find travel nurse discussion groups on FB in order to have discussions with travel nurses to find out what type of things they look for when seeking furnished accommodations. However, most of the travel nurses groups I've been able to find on that site seem to limit this in one of two ways. First, if you are a landlord (not a travel nurse) you can only join groups allow posting of properties, but no general discussion or questions. Second, for the groups that do allow general discussion and questions, you must be a travel nurses. Do you know of any groups that allow non-travel nurses to join for the purpose of general discussion and questions with travel nurses?
Do you get benefits, or no, because it’s considered an independent contractor? (Not sure if it does fall under that category)
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My taxable income is $75/hr.
Thank you so much for this informative video! I’m currently a junior in high school interested in this career. Can travel nurses work in clinics or other healthcare facilities instead of hospitals?
I work in a clinic and had a travel nurse with us. She was amazing! We liked her so much we asked her to extend and she did as much as her agency would let her.
@@djblu3pnai thank you so much for that information! :)
Since you are trying to buy a house could you possibly put a larger down payment to get approved?
I could.... but I’m already doing 20% which is a lot !
Grey’s Anatomy!!!
The hospital I want to work at is EXACTLY 51 miles from my home.. does that count? How would I arrange that for a travel assignment?
You just need to be 50 miles away from the address. So yes that’s considered travel nursing.
In the beginning of the video, thanks for sharing that info, but we're not asking for otherwise. We don't need the gov to take more than they already have. I'm so glad it's not counted bcz we do spend in order to provide our service accross country; food, transportation, etc... Honestly, if that was the only issue, many of us won't mind, especially if it credit is good.there r also health professional loans. Ask your bank and Google.
GREYS ANATOMY!!!
I’m junior in highschool and want to become nurse travel and my English isn’t that good are they gonna judge about my English idk in the future if I will know more ik now lol 😂
Great video. Btw the more you put down the less the banks care.
Interested in traveling but don’t have the C card…is this a deal breaker for agencies?
Not necessarily. Not all places require it. Just limits where you could be placed
Im a newly nursing graduate here in Philippines, and will be taking the NCLEX soon in Chicago. Don't know if I should be a staff nurse first or go directly into travel nurse work. Does anyone have any insight or tips?
You’ll have to do staff first. Travel nurse agencies do not accept nurses without experience.
@@beebeeberlucern2464 Thank you so much 🙏
I would like to see that video!! Make it beebs… lol
Lol I defy should! I’ll work on it
what is the gpa to be a travel nurse?
No GPA needed! Just a valid RN license with 2 year minimum experience .
@@beebeeberlucern2464 thank youu so much i love your videos💛💛
Just become a travel nurse if you can .
I can do anything for 12 hours. 🤷♀️ That’s my job
Lol panoramic
Congratulations but you’ve lost weight and also how come you don’t look happy 🤔