We chose California because our company had such a large number of assignments. He works ICU and I work OR. Our first assignment was our only one together. We found it very difficult to get assigments that were in the same hospital let alone the same city. I have since quit travelling. He continues. We might try to do it again, now that we're well seasoned.

Is working in Cali better than other places? or is it pretty much the same?

Re: California


two of my nursing friends did an assignment in los angeles at the same time...they both worked on the same floor of the same hospital, but opposite shifts. they also got housing together through their travel agency.

Traveling Together
Both my husband and I are RNs. My speciality is OB/LDRP and his is NICU/NSY/postpartum. We have absolutely no difficulty working the same hospital, same shift AND same schedule. We have 1 recruiter that works for both of us and she knows this is one of our requirements...which they don't seem to have problems meeting.

We're upfront with the hospitals, even if the units have different managers. We tell them in the interview that the "other spouse" is also interviewing and this is a requirement and they usually strive very hard to accommidate our needs.

However, we try to make it easy on them and have our time clumped together on a set schedule but usually to their needs.

It can be done!