Why I Got a California Nursing License to Work From Home as a Nurse
I got a California nursing license while living in North Carolina, with no job lined up. A year later it landed me a fully remote travel nurse contract paying $56/hr, with an $86/hr overtime rate.
In this video I'm sharing the three pieces of career advice I wish someone had given me when I started — the ones that took me from $1.00-a-year raises at the bedside to roughly $120,000 in my first year of virtual travel nursing.
We cover:
→ Why I don't stay at a hospital system longer than 3 years
→ Why every nurse should try some form of travel nursing (including the virtual kind nobody talks about)
→ The $400 license that changed my income
I'm Ava, an RN of six years and a virtual nurse for four. Everything in this video I've actually done.
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CHAPTERS
0:00 – The $400 license that got me $56/hr
0:25 – Intro
1:15 – Advice #1: Don't stay past 3 years
3:35 – Advice #2: Try travel nursing
4:25 – What virtual travel nursing actually is
5:10 – My first contract: $2,000/week
6:00 – The California contract: $56/hr from home
7:55 – Advice #3: Get a California nursing license
8:45 – What that license paid me
10:15 – Recap
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