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SBrooks72
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May 20, 2015

Rv Travel Nursing

Hey all, Brooks here from toyhauler portion of this site. I am headed out travel nursing this summer. Divorced last year, went back to school for bsn and figured I couldstudy while on the road and not maintain a big house that I am livinh alone in with my dog. It was meant to ne that a young gentleman is trying to move hos family home tp phx from Canada and needed to find a home for them. I om a time crunch as well since I took a loa from school. House is now under contract. I will figure out other details once on the road (tax stuff). The house is almost cleared out and I will not be paying for storage. Still need to sell my quad and dressers, tools. Anyhow, sorry for the rant. I am going to need to be able to logon for school with minimal hickups. Should I go into Verizon and see what they have to offer. Also, I was told to buy a microsoft surface 3 amd bluetooth printer for my setup. Is there a modem needed. I plan on staying on parks for my travel nurse assignments.
Thank you in advance
Brooks

12 Replies

  • magicbus's avatar
    magicbus
    Explorer II
    May 22, 2015
    SBrooks72 wrote:

    Does it eat up a lot of data? Do you have unlimited data plan? Are there any plans like that out there?
    Tia,
    Brooks
    I write software and upload a lot of software for testing and my wife rents and sells real estate. We both use my hotpot all day and find we use a half gig per workday. We also find a streamed hour TV show is about 1 gig. We have a 15 gig plan and have never gone over.

    I use Google Voice when home for all conference calls. On the road I use my unlimited cell voice minutes so I am not using my data for voice.


    Dave
  • Belgique's avatar
    Belgique
    Explorer
    May 21, 2015
    My wife did 1 year Medical Coding training on line from a school in Charleston while we traveled. She never had a problem. This included on-line seminars. If the RV park wifi was down/slow, we used her Verizon Samsung phone as a hot spot.
  • Naio's avatar
    Naio
    Explorer II
    May 21, 2015
    SBrooks72 wrote:
    magicbus wrote:
    Naio wrote:
    Is there any reason to have a Mifi, instead of just a phone, for connecting only one computer to the net?
    I just use my phone as a hot spot 8 hours a day when working away from home. It's great because I can use the phone and hotspot at the same time with AT&T, not sure about Verizon.

    Dave

    Does it eat up a lot of data? Do you have unlimited data plan? Are there any plans like that out there?
    Tia,
    Brooks


    If you're just working online or surfing or doing email it doesn't use any significant data. If you download videos, or watch youtube, then you may run out of data, depending on your plan.
  • SBrooks72's avatar
    SBrooks72
    Explorer
    May 21, 2015
    I can hardly wait to hit the road!!! The jobs sound pretty cool too.
    Anyone out there know about Yaka washington. Is cool in summer? Scenic? Good place for outdoor recreation?
  • SBrooks72's avatar
    SBrooks72
    Explorer
    May 20, 2015
    magicbus wrote:
    Naio wrote:
    Is there any reason to have a Mifi, instead of just a phone, for connecting only one computer to the net?
    I just use my phone as a hot spot 8 hours a day when working away from home. It's great because I can use the phone and hotspot at the same time with AT&T, not sure about Verizon.

    Dave

    Does it eat up a lot of data? Do you have unlimited data plan? Are there any plans like that out there?
    Tia,
    Brooks
  • magicbus's avatar
    magicbus
    Explorer II
    May 20, 2015
    Naio wrote:
    Is there any reason to have a Mifi, instead of just a phone, for connecting only one computer to the net?
    I just use my phone as a hot spot 8 hours a day when working away from home. It's great because I can use the phone and hotspot at the same time with AT&T, not sure about Verizon.

    Dave
  • Naio's avatar
    Naio
    Explorer II
    May 20, 2015
    Is there any reason to have a Mifi, instead of just a phone, for connecting only one computer to the net?

    I am not a nurse, but I am trying to learn about this data access stuff :).
  • kgragert's avatar
    kgragert
    Explorer
    May 20, 2015
    When I was in the hospital for a short stay, one of my Nurses had been a Travel Nurse for a little over 10 years.
    She had a Class A with a toad, and her agency picked up the cost of rent in the parks.
    4 days work and 3 days to sight see. She Loved it
    She also started after a divorce.
    She had been to every state except Hawaii.
  • sdianel_-acct_c's avatar
    sdianel_-acct_c
    Explorer
    May 20, 2015
    I use Verizon Mi-Fi hotspot. I have used it all over the US with no problems. They have different plans but no unlimited plans. You can connect multiple devices to the hotspot, for example I can connect my laptop and my kindle and the grandkids can connect their games. It's not cheap but it is secure. One thing for sure you can't depend on campgrounds' wi-fi.. totally undependable!
    We have met many nurses who travel and work. Good for you!
  • DianneOK's avatar
    DianneOK
    Explorer
    May 20, 2015
    I am going o take the initiative here and move this to Technology corner....

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