


She also packs a kayak and a recumbent bike in her RV. On her days off, Katrina enjoys rollerblading around the RV park and taking Jack out on the New River on her paddleboard. “And my RV has slides, so it feels like an apartment, not a box.” “I have my own belongings and my Dalmatian, Jack, and I’m surrounded by things that are important to me,” says Katrina. Not only is located near nine busy hospitals, it offers a brand new resort pool, tiki huts, water activities, a new fitness center, laundry facilities and more for off-duty nurses.Ĭhanging cities, colleagues, schedules and work environments frequently, Katrina finds comfort in knowing that at least her lodging is not foreign. South Florida is a popular place in the winter time and she’s one of 10 travel nurses currently in residence at the waterside RV resort. Today, she, her truck and her 30-foot 5 th wheel (“Millie” and “Tillie,” respectively) are based at Yacht Haven for her 13-week stint at Mercy Hospital. She began travelling after caring for her dying grandmother who made her promise to “do you” and see the country. Meet Katrina Wilson of San Diego, who has been a labor and delivery nurse for 20 years – the last six of them as a travel nurse. They are combining their nursing and travel passions to, as one nurse describes it, drive her “beach house, mountain cabin and desert dwelling” to jobs all across the country. Here at Yacht Haven, we LOVE travel nurses and have been a host to many of them. More and more travel nurses are packing up their homes and hitting the road in their RVs.
