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The signs are if it has high pressures and long hours and this nurse will leave her job and find another. Moving to New Jersey from Washington DC this nurse has been job hopping six times already in the last two years. The outbreak of the nursing shortage has made many hospitals rely on the many nomadic nurses.
What those traveling nurse companies do is to help hospitals compensate for their lack for personnel. Having worked in places such as Florida to New York and San Diego to Seattle since graduating from the University Of Pennsylvania School Of Nursing in 1999, this nurse said that there has not been any request for a location.
With the traveling nurses present hospitals can get the extra help they need says the Chief Nursing Executive of the University of Pennsylvania health system. Most of the time what traveling nurses get is around $30 an hour and up but this is a good price compared to the nurses at four Penn system hospitals. These nurses work for about 13 weeks.
The outcome of this is more opportunities for nurses wherever they go. In her first year of working this nurse earned $32,000 and on the second year she made $52,000. Doing this enabled her to visit places like San Diego with perfect weather year round and her favorite location so far which is Seattle.
She would walk outside her apartment six blocks from the hospital and right in the middle of the street is Mount Rainier. In this city the people were friendly and the air was so clean and fresh.
The working environment is not necessarily the most pleasing. The normal complaints are of being burnout and stress and feeling unappreciated. Then again, when the job gets tough you can just leave. There is always the thirst that every 13 weeks you can travel again.
Some nurses are given the opportunity to work on flexible schedules. She visited eight national parks in the last year. A lot of things come with moving all the time.
This give her the opportunity to travel to many states say this nurse who traveled for five years, working in Florida, Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, New York and Hawaii before settling in Seattle. She said she misses parts of if but was glad to leave moving hassles and tough schedules behind.
Usually you tend to keep your numbers the same and your mailbox address. Leaving your things and notes and other things is normal now since there is a sisterhood. Despite having lots of experience something things still get left behind whenever she moves.
