About 6-8 years
First is becoming a registered nurse, then comes the specialty.
An oncology nurse practitioner is one who specializes in the care of cancer patients.
Oncology nurse.
70K
They make 90-100,000 a year.
Surgical Intensive Care Unit nurse
One can find information on oncology nursing jobs from the following job seeking websites: Job Search, Monster, Indeed, Discover Nursing, Nurse, Top USA Jobs, Staff Nurse, Oncology Nursing Society.
A nurse makes more than a surgical tech.
To become a travel nurse you will need to go through the standard schooling to become a nurse and then go on to work at least two (if not more) years in your specialty in a hospital setting. This site has tons of info on travel nursing: http://travelnursingblogs.com/
I could find no evidence that being an oncology nurse raises your risk of suicide at all.
Four years to become a BS/RN and an additional year for the pediatric specialty.
Oncology nurses care for patients with various types of cancer and may assist in the administration of radiation and chemotherapies and follow-up monitoring.