Nurses: any suggestions on specialty areas you found interesting to work in?

Have you heard any negative comments on being a "traveling nurse"? Going to relocate soon, want to try something different other than ER, Hospice, Home health.

One of my co-workers started traveling recently. The problems that arose for her were the attitudes from the staff because you are often making more money than they are. She found that in some hospitals, they welcomed her with open arms and in others, they did everything they could to get her to leave. She wrote the hostile ones off after doing her stint there and went back for additional assignments to the ones she liked. It was a trial and error thing when she first started. Now, she only goes to two hospitals for a few weeks at a time and she loves it there and apparently they love her. She still pops in once in a while to do a shift with us but most of her time is spent traveling. She schedules herself for a couple of weeks (sometimes more) and then takes a month off. She says by doing this, she enjoys the best of both worlds - lots of time off plus enough pay to cover the months she doesn't work. Hope this has helped.

I have been a med/surg nurse for all of my nursing career, also working part time at home health and hospice and long term care at different times. Many nurses I know travel because the money is better. I would say it would be a good job for someone who is adaptable to change and learns quickly. I admire anyone who could do this as I would be much to sensitive to the negative attitudes of the regular nurses where I would be sent. They are resentful that traveling nurses get a better wage and they may be more likely to stick you with a most difficult assignment and be loathe to help you if you got swamped. I wish you the best if this is what you decide to do.

New York has a lot to offer, maybe u should check there.

no my my my my dear dear sweet one well iam an mechanical engieer by profession honestly i do not know head &tail about this profession if you want ican find out i have friends here in kuwait whose wives are nurses drawing handsome salary that is what my friends tellme .

I've never been a travelling nurse so cannot say what that would be like. My nursing background includes a spell in medicine...not really my favourite area. I've also worked in telephone triage...can be ok and pays well but it is difficult not having face to face contact. My main speciality is in gynaecology, family planning and breast surgery. I love this area as it covers everything from the joyful side of nursing (i.e. successful fertility treatments) to the intense job satisfaction (although hearbreaking) of caring for the terminally ill patient.
I find this area covers both the dramatic and the routine, from the emergency of a ruptured ectopic for example to the normal day to day care of the post-op patient. I have never become bored in this area and cannot see that I ever would.
Good Luck...hope you find an area you love.