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Travel Nursing: NP now or at all? Are FNP traveling positions freq and easy to find?

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Feeling way conflicted. I undoubtedly want to travel. At current, I have a BSN with cardiac telemetry experience.

Life goals are as follows:
Work as a traveling RN (as in, for the majority of my career, straight into retirement).

(However) I don't know that I'll be happy with acute care/bedside nursing forever (love it for now, though).

My heart is in public health, community health, cardiology, women's health, gerontology, and hospice, as well as research (Alzheimer's, epidemiology, neuroscience). Prob is, I don't want to give up the acute stuff too soon for the non-acute things. I basically want it all...

I have the following decisions to make and need help/advice figuring out which best allows me to complete all that I want to do. I'm 35 now, I want to travel through my 30s-60s...

Would it be better to:
A) take a position in labor and delivery now, and delay the NP. Then I would have Cardiac and L&D under my belt. That would mean traveling in one year, with the NP being put on indefinite hold.

B) remain in cardiac, go for the NP while it's still cheap and easily attainable. It would take 3-4 years (but traveling would have to be put on hold).

If I delay the NP, times will change, & most programs will have switched to a 5-yr BSN to doctorate. I'll get to travel, but I'll lose contacts in the way of MDs and NPs that can write my letters of recommendation, and provide my clinical connections.

If I go for the NP now, I worry about what opportunities are out there in the way of traveling as an NP (*so I guess this line is the main point). I just don't want to be over-qualified , in the sense that there aren't enough traveling NP jobs, and wind myself unable to take the BSN positions bc of the degree...
I say go for the NP! You can always do an online program and travel at the same time!! I'm 26, and have been accepted into the DNP program at u of m flint and I am beyond excited to know my future will always be stable career wise. You could always travel as an RN after you finish NP also, I have a DNP friend who sometimes takes contracts in ER's because the pay is ridiculously high
Author: peter  3-07-2015, 08:58   Views: 905   
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