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Originally Posted by blueash
If you are semi-retired and no longer tied to a specific location, you should consider travel nursing. Work in an area that interests you for several weeks, see the country, and get paid double or triple what you get working here. While the standard contract is 13 weeks, shorter ones can be found.
This is especially true if you have specific skills like critical care nursing.
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I agree. I once sat next to a nurse in a plane who was travelling to Hawaii for a 3-month, all expenses paid temporary job. She said that Hawaii has great difficulty hiring nurses because of the high cost of living. Also, I worked in Saudi Arabia, where doctors and nurses were hired for a month or so for high pay and all expenses were covered. If you are willing to travel, you can make big bucks as a nurse.
In Virginia, there was a company that purchased private homes to house 4 to 6 nursing home patients. They hired nurses to live in a house for a 48-hour shift. So, they worked 2 days and had the rest of the week off.