The Benefits of Being a Travel Nurse

I love to travel, I like freedom and adventure, that's why I'm thinking about working in Alaska as a travel nurse. My husband lived there for a year, he worked in luggage shipping and he loved it because of the people, the beautiful views, and all of the fun stuff to do. I already contacted mt new hospital and it is a wonderful facility and the other nurses seem really nice to work with.

I've known people that had positive experiences with this. I've known just as many that haven't. I was one of the "not so fortunate ones". I've traveled for two different travel companies - I had only one assignment with each. After the experiences, I will will not consider traveling again. Please be forwarned: the travel agency recruiters are doing a job for the companies that hire them/need the staff. They say they are there for you (their employee) but, if push come to shove, you will be the one left hanging out to dry.
Foundation Medical Staffing ask me to help them out with a difficult assignment that we both knew was one I didn't really want, but I was also told they didn't really have what I wanted at the time, & I could get out of the other assignment in a month & they just knew something would be available then. I did it. There wasn't an assignment available that I wanted when I was done...& my recruiter was off getting married & the recruiter covering her didn't sound very interested in "my" problem. I contacted another agency called NursesRx (under AMN), got the kind of assignment I was looking for & drove straight into "he__". The situation was beyond belief, to the point that one traveler that had been there awhile got JHACO involved & another of the travelers that got there a week earlier than me ended up giving two weeks notice with a month. Now, did NursesRx/AMN know there were problems there? Being a novice at the whole travel thing, I guess I never thought I'd be put in a situation that could, potentially, endanger my license/livelihood & didn't know the right questions to ask (plus, being a tad more "chronologically mature", I wasn't use to the whole "interview the interviewer" type thing).
If you're even considering travel, be sure to find out anything/everything you can - don't take it for granted that what you read in the paperwork answers your questions - make sure they do by asking those same questions of the recruiter - also, make sure you get any "revisions" to a contract sent to you (by email or however) before you sign cuz there's no such thing as a verbal agreement (like the one I had concerning payment on something I didn't know I'd need until I got to the place I was going to work - which, by the way, was not the place "advertised" on the website). I'm the one that got the short end of the stick (in more ways than one) - these two travel companies are going on like nothing happened/they didn't do anything out of line. BEWARE!!

Yep, I am going to be a Travel Nurse. I am 45 yrs old, no babies and it is time for me to do my thing.

Sounds lovely. I like to travel...I may just have to look into this once I finish school (whenever that will be).