Essay On Travel Nurse

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Dianne is a single woman who has just graduated from nursing school. She has always loved traveling the United States, meeting new people, and experiencing new cultures. Dianne wonders how she can be successful with her career as a nurse but still get to do what she loves. Before settling down and establishing a career in one particular hospital or clinical setting, Dianne is trying to figure out a way to experience something new in the medical field. She has researched and is considering travel nursing. Travel nurses are nurses who are hired to typically contract to work specific periods in one location and then move around the country, depending on where they want to go and where they are needed; this is an opportunity many new nurses are …show more content…

Typically travel nurses travel alone when they go off to work. This means they are away from their friends and family for months at a time and for someone who might not easily make friends, this could possibly drive them towards depression and they could experience loneliness. Not only do they have to deal with being away from family and friends, but they also have to learn how to adapt to unfamiliar environments both on the job and the area they live in. At some new job sights travel nurses might encounter hostility from some of the staff members that currently work at the hospital. This happens in hospitals due to the fact that some nurses feel like they have authority over travel nurses because they have been working in that particular hospital longer. Some people, such as those who have been working in the hospital for a long time, are not willing to except change and this could make the job very difficult for travel nurses who have just signed a contract to stay at that specific hospital for an extended amount of time. Another disadvantage of being a travel nurse is that their pay rate changes with every contract depending on the location of the hospital they are working at. This could have a major effect on a nurse because the cost of living varies depending on the location of the hospital they are employed at or want to work at. Having to adjust to a different salary every few months could eventually become very overwhelming for

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