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Question by Jenny: traveling nurses…?
I’m interested in becoming an RN, and I also want to travel. However, I have some questions about “travel nurses.”
Do travel nurses get to travel and work in other countries??? If so, which agency allows that? Also, do the agencies allow you to pick which countries or places you want to work at?

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Answer by ne11
My friend’s sister is a traveling nurse. She only works in the US. She works for 3-6 months in an area that interests her.

She loves the flexibility and adventure of living in new locales.

Call your local hospital and ask for a reference point. I’m sure they have a data base that will help you.

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Question by Live & Learn: Nurses: any suggestions on specialty areas you found interesting to work in?
Have you heard any negative comments on being a “traveling nurse”? Going to relocate soon, want to try something different other than ER, Hospice, Home health.

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Answer by J B
One of my co-workers started traveling recently. The problems that arose for her were the attitudes from the staff because you are often making more money than they are. She found that in some hospitals, they welcomed her with open arms and in others, they did everything they could to get her to leave. She wrote the hostile ones off after doing her stint there and went back for additional assignments to the ones she liked. It was a trial and error thing when she first started. Now, she only goes to two hospitals for a few weeks at a time and she loves it there and apparently they love her. She still pops in once in a while to do a shift with us but most of her time is spent traveling. She schedules herself for a couple of weeks (sometimes more) and then takes a month off. She says by doing this, she enjoys the best of both worlds – lots of time off plus enough pay to cover the months she doesn’t work. Hope this has helped.

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Title: ANF/HESTA fund sends nurses to South Africa: clinical nurse specialists Margaret McDonald and Heather Ellis spent two months caring for people living with AIDS in South Africa in June 2005 with financial support from the ANF/HESTA Nursing Volunteer Assistance Fund.(working life)
Publication: Australian Nursing Journal (Magazine/Journal)
Date: February 1, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 13 Issue: 7 Page: 33(1)

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ANF/HESTA fund sends nurses to South Africa: clinical nurse specialists Margaret McDonald and Heather Ellis spent two months caring for people living with … An article from: Australian Nursing Journal