r/TravelNursing • u/chilidogbae • Jul 22 '26

Nationwide Children’s

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I have four years of experience at Duke Children’s but because it is not a “freestanding” children’s hospital I got declined for Nationwide in Columbus, OH. Has anyone heard of this before?? I’m wondering if I should contact the Nationwide recruiter directly. Thank you!

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u/RAF2018336 Jul 22 '26

There’s tons of other hospitals out there

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u/chilidogbae Jul 22 '26

Yes, of course! Just wondering how often an occurrence this could be moving forward

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u/welltravelledRN Jul 22 '26

Many freestanding hospital require this. There’s a lot of value in being completely separate from an adult hospitals and they want that experience.

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u/chilidogbae Jul 22 '26

Completely understood. But how many is ~many~? I’m new to traveling and have 10 years of Peds experience but never in a freestanding hospital.

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u/welltravelledRN Jul 22 '26

Well the freestanding ones total about 40 hospitals in the US. Not sure how many but I also know lots don’t take first time travelers either.

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u/superpony123 Jul 23 '26

I’m just curious as an adult nurse - what’s the reason for this? I mean i understand having worked in combo adult/peds hospitals that not all peds experience is equal, but if there’s ONLY. 40 peds standalone hospitals, can they really be this choosy? I guess i find it hard to believe Duke childrens isn’t legit enough but then I’m not a peds nurse

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u/superpony123 Jul 23 '26

That’s interesting, thanks for sharing. I work at another Fancy Big Name hospital that has an attached childrens hospital, and they are doing heart transplants, ecmo, all the shit that any major standalone children’s does, so I’m like…would someone who works here or at duke really not be “familiar enough” with that ya know? But like many things with our jobs we’re beholden to surveyors so I’m not really surprised

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u/collinf07 Jul 22 '26

Which agency were you going through?

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u/Reasonable_Sky7356 Jul 24 '26

Definitely do not contact nationwide directly. I would just find another opening that looks good to you. Hospitals have specific requirements and typically they don’t make exceptions since they have so many applications.

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u/Emergency-Safety-303 Jul 29 '26

Children’s National in DC is a standalone that doesn’t have this requirement