 So guys welcome back to my video. This is Crosby if you haven't seen him already from the no manners He does a traveling nursing Vlogging all combined sort of YouTube channel. It has some awesome footage and he has a drum. So yeah Yeah, I won't crash this one if you wonder what he's talking about. He's got a whole video on it, too so Crosby's a travel nurse. He just finished his assignment in Nevada and Has been living in his Jeep like this whole life lifestyle living his Jeep being a travel nurse exploring driving all these places And so we wanted to do a video to like talk about travel nursing because I've never done travel nursing I know travel nurses so I know like a little bit But really I've never done it and you have more insight and I get a lot of people that ask you questions Like how do I come become a travel nurse? What experience do I have to have and all those questions? So he's gonna answer all those questions right now. I am all right So I think let's just start with like how you how do you become a travel nurse? Like what's the first step? You're looking into it. All right. So yeah, so like Becoming a travel nurse. It's really like you need to have whatever your specialty is like if you have Like if you're med surge or ICU or ER you need to have at least two years Yeah, so you have to have at least two years as in your specialty as a nurse I think some of them may take May take like a year and a half or something. Yeah, I think it's a Kind of give or take right you need experience, right? You need you need to have experience because when you get to that floor They're gonna expect you to hit the ground running like you have your little orientation when you get to the hospital And like a day or two of that and then you know, you're you're Yeah, I just let you go right so So yeah, like so the first part is you need to have two years experience in your specialty The other thing about like becoming a travel nurse is there's there's agencies I think like I'm with American mobile. There's like supplemental health care Something staffing like there's just all hundreds probably different travel agencies and what they do is you you talk to them And they give you a they basically tell you how to help alright, so how the pain breaks down is like this So you get your regular I'm Yeah, so you get your regular nursing pay and then you on top of that you get your housing allowance and Your food allowance and per diem, which is not taxed. The only thing that is taxed is your nursing pay That is really nice So yeah, so like that is taxed Just your nursing pay, but the other part isn't taxed So, you know, you're probably actually end up making more from that than you do the actual nursing pay Yeah, and if you're smart about it, like some people I know are travelers and they're like look who I'm gonna go live up life And they're like rent out the most expensive place. Yes, like what's the point? And then you basically which is so like that's what you want to do That's right And that's a wonderful option to be a travel nurse But then like you're not really gonna be making that extra money because you're like literally just spending and that's that's like I mean that was sort of like when I started with staying in the Jeep That's kind of was like I was like why should I go and pay rent here? Yeah, I get to travel, but That's a that's a waste of money to me Like I'm are you know, you don't want to have to go and like she's like not make any money On a travel stuff the whole point of going on a travel assignment is to see the place and make money Yeah, I know people who like do like Craigslist like they'll just pop them into the town Stand up stand a hotel for a couple days Call Craigslist up, you know, they have all these like, you know rooms for rent You know 300 bucks and yeah, you know, you're banking the rest of the time Yeah, and so basically like you find your agency and you have your experience you find agency You go through them to do kind of some of them require like interviews, don't they? Yeah, no all of them do All right So like when you do like they'll do an interview with you and you'll also do a skills checklist You get your you get a thing you do a skills checklist You do an interview with the agency as well as the hiring hospital. Oh, so Whatever the hiring hospital is that it's usually a phone interview Because you know, obviously you can't go across the country somewhere into an interview But they'll pretty much do a good job of asking questions trying to do the screening out process Who they can and can't hire and it's also good as a travel nurse to make sure you're asking questions of them too Because trust me it does go both ways on that end. So yeah, you do your interview Trying to think what else Now a lot of times and correct me if I'm wrong the person that you're in it getting interviewed by with the agency isn't always Nurse like nursing because I know someone who works for a travel agency and hires nurses for these companies Yeah, but he's actually not a nurse and like I mean over time you get to know what questions you should and shouldn't ask but like Yeah, all right. So the usually usually it's a recruiter Yeah, yeah, so the recruiter will have a set of their questions and that's some basic Screening out questions like the basic a little bit of medical terminology, but not much and then Then you will go get that done with that interview. Oh, I also want to say one thing You always have to have all of your credentials to you have because you're gonna have to get state license ACLS pals BLS. That's the main three. I don't know about mid-surge though But I know ICU is like that. Yeah, and I don't know if like I don't think if I wanted to I see trouble I don't think I'd have to have pals because I don't do you know if you yeah, but I would I mean I have an ACLS and my BLS and all that and so Yeah, so like depending on like and I don't even think you have to have a pals on mid-surge No, I have doubted unless you're like working in pediatric General like right So so basically like they'll like give you once you get through this process They can give you a list of places where you can go right and then you and usually what happens I mean how I find all the places is there's a Facebook page like a traveling nurse Opportunity or something I can remember the name of the page, but they have literally Every day post on like different places to go like they have and they'll actually show the prices and they they'll show Like how much you'll take home Like Alaska has a like big-time pay Places that nobody wants to go Yeah, yeah, real hospitals But you know like with me like I wanted to go to a real hospital because I was out I needed to sleep in the Jeep be out of the cup, you know So so yeah, and then like there's another one like I have a Verbal assignment. I haven't haven't actually signed anything yet, but it was in LA in Burbank, I don't know if I'm gonna take that but I think it would be you know, obviously won't live in the Jeep But it would be a cool experience. Oh, thank you And it was in Burbank Hospital So that was like right now and like Hollywood. Yeah What are some like downsides to travel nursing that you've noticed because like everyone talks about oh, it's so great I travel I get extra money and blah blah, but like there's I know there's definitely some downsides Oh, absolutely. I mean because you're gonna be working a lot like you're being the whole point of having a travel nurse Is they're gonna be sure staffed. Exactly. That's the whole reason they're there. Yeah So you you're gonna be busy like with me my shift was 118 11p And literally when I went in there, I was busy all 12 hours Very rarely took a lunch. I mean you eat calm to go Because I mean our ER was just you know pat all the time Now So that that would be a downside But I mean other things like you may clash with people because some of the nurses don't like Travelers and other making more money. You're there. You're making more. You're probably almost double what some of them are making and You know, they have their own little systems and their own little clicks and things like that I haven't really seen it, but I've heard of other Other nurses don't pay attention. Yeah. Yeah, exactly They could be all mad at me and I have no clue And I don't know like I know with travelers. We've had an ICU I mean, we're usually short staff. That's why we have them But if for some reason we have a shift where our core staff meets the requirements for our staffing You're the first to get canceled because you're the most expensive. Absolutely. Yep That's a downside is if for some reason it's slower, you're going to be first to get canceled I mean some people love that But I mean you kind of you make more money so kind of can make up for it in a way You're also first at least What I've noticed you're first to get floated So and that's hard being an ICU nurse because you're so stuck in your ways And then if you have to go to med surgery suddenly you hug five or six patients You're like, what am I doing? I don't know right So you're the first to get canceled first to get floated So that's yeah, I mean you're basically just remember why you're there You know if you if you do a assignment you have to always remember like you're here to help Like in any way that's why they're paying you the money. You're here to help out and That's basically it. I mean is that a downside? I mean it it does at the hospital just left It was extremely busy like one of the busier hospitals I've worked at But I also knew my role So when I went to work, I was just prepared like, okay, we're about to we're about to do it Get raped the whole shit But you know another thing about travel nursing probably a downside was like you don't know the town you're in So you you know you have to figure out the town which is cool though I mean it can be cool, but you don't know the people you don't know anything about it But so you got to figure that out too. Yeah, and another thing I think we didn't really mention What travel nursing you have contracts. So I would say yes The standard one's about three months sometimes people can do six months sometimes you can extend And they actually have some in uh, I was looking the other day. They actually have six week contracts now. Oh my gosh That'd be a lot of moving. Yeah, that would be That would be a lot. I like my reach. You would be you would be going crazy Anyways, I think that kind of sums it up and gives you guys a good like foundation and base for what travel nursing is If you have any more questions, you can ask them to have a low or go to crossbeast channel and ask on his channel Because yeah, he loves getting comments. So everyone should go to his channel. Yes Say that you saw him on my channel and I sent you over there subscribe follow him and It's great. So thank you guys for watching. We'll see you in our next video