I worked with a guy (2012)...he was married to a nurse, and she was getting weekly job offers for the traveling nurse routine (she had five different certifications, and had done a lot of time in emergency rooms). They were talking 100,000 a year, 3 months at a time at hospital with a month of break inbetween, full hotel costs, daily per diem, and a rental car.
I’d tell any person at age 18 today, it’s guaranteed work for the rest of your life if you had certifications and were willing to travel.
My daughter graduated college with a nursing degree specializing in the NICU ward 4 years ago. She’s an RN that has offers thrown her way every week or so by the traveling nurse companies because she was looking for another position a few months ago.
Some of the $$ numbers bandied around with the benefits thrown in were quite impressive, more than her old man makes now which makes me VERY happy. If it wasn’t for being married and having a 2 and 1 year old she would have jumped at some of them.
I actually wish she would TBH, she wanted to make a difference so she left the premier children’s hospital in Indy and went with a smaller group that is located on the east side of the city.
The stories of the babies born by horribly diabetic women is bad, but the amount of babies born with drug dependencies, especially heroin, is what really breaks your heart, going through withdraw just after their first breath of air.
One of my nurses during the 2 weeks and change of IICU was a traveling contract type. I vaguely remember talking about the traveling.
She was super nice and out of all the ones that took care of me, hers is the only name I can remember. Everybody was great at the hospital.
My home nurse afterwards for wound vac support was way better than I could have hand picked.
I’d tell any person at age 18 today, it’s guaranteed work for the rest of your life if you had certifications and were willing to travel.
I doubt it. Shortly they will be importing nurses from around the world for those jobs. No way that $100k+ a year keeps up.