LPN travel assignment jobs include a variety of positions that require traveling to visit patients in their homes or to provide assistance to residents at nursing facilities or hospitals that are short-handed. Your duties include providing long term care or extra assistance in remote areas that need additional medical professionals. As an LPN with a travel assignment, you typically are typically assigned responsibilities by a central staffing agency, and your duties include providing everyday care, such as helping patients to and from their bed, helping them to eat and clean, and listening to them.