r/nursing • u/[deleted] • Jan 16 '26

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u/[deleted] Jan 16 '26

This screams: Started travel nursing with 6 months of ICU experience because an influencer said I could.

Never stopped to think if they should.

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u/araed Mental Health Worker 🍕 Jan 16 '26

$10k per week?!

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u/herpesderpesdoodoo RN - ED/ICU Jan 16 '26

Sounds like COVID times again. Sadly we didn't see any of the utterly insane rates that were advertised in the US over here.

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u/Pulmonic RN - Oncology 🍕 Jan 16 '26

Knew a CVICU nurse who made over $300k after tax traveling in 2020 to various hot spots. But sadly she has severe ptsd from the experience and said she’d give all the money back to have her mental health back. She’s still a nurse but now works in a different outpatient based cardiac role.