Travis Toelkes

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Travis Toelkes, BSN, is currently a travel nurse working in California at the UC San Diego Health. He is a licensed Registered Nurse in California as well as South Carolina, which is a member of a multi-state compact that allows him to work in over 20 states. Travis completed the Accelerated BSN Program at Montana State University in 2014. Since then he has worked on medical surgical, telemetry, and surgical step-down floors as well as volunteering his services in Guatemala, providing basic medical care for indigenous people.

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