You don’t go to school to become a “travel nurse”. You go to school to become a Registered Nurse. Then once you are licensed and work at a hospital for at least 1 year then you can get hired by a travel nurse agency. But they won’t hire new grads, you need experience as a nurse because when you’re traveling and changing facilities every couple of weeks / months, they don’t have time to be orienting a new grad. You need to be able to jump right in and start working.
Jill said,
Wrote on February 21, 2010 @ 6:52 pm
You don’t go to school to become a “travel nurse”. You go to school to become a Registered Nurse. Then once you are licensed and work at a hospital for at least 1 year then you can get hired by a travel nurse agency. But they won’t hire new grads, you need experience as a nurse because when you’re traveling and changing facilities every couple of weeks / months, they don’t have time to be orienting a new grad. You need to be able to jump right in and start working.