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What experience is needed to start travel nursing?

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While it used to be a year of experience in whichever specialty you wanted to travel, most companies now mandate at least two years of recent experience.

You will also be best served if that experience is hospital based (unless of course your specialty is something like home care).

You can possibly have two years in different specialties. For example, if you first started your practice working on a tele floor, and then moved into the ICU, you could take a travel assignment in ICU (but of course those with two years of strict ICU might be chosen first).