how many jobs?

[sassyann85]

How many jobs have you all held? How long have you been a nurse? What's the shortest time you ever stayed at a job?

[loriangel14, RN]

Been out of school almost 7 years.Started on a Complex Continuing Care unit 3 weeks after graduation. Still there.

[Caffeine_IV]

5 years as an RN.

3 jobs. Shortest stint was 3 months.

[meanmaryjean, DNP, RN]

37 years a nurse (LPN x 3 and RN x 34).

Nursing home, inpatient psych >> LPN

NICU, ER, PDN, Adult ICU/CCU, med-surg, house supervisor, gero-psych, PICU >> RN

ETA: Clinical instructor for a pre-licensure program

[brownbook]

Do you mean how many jobs in different facilities, or how many different jobs but within the same facility?

[nurseprnRN, BSN, RN]

I've been a nurse for less than fifty, but more than thirty years.

I cannot count the number of jobs I've had. I've been bedside in critical care, done catastrophic air transport, worked per diem in different units, worked PACU and organ transplant and day surgery, been a critical care clinical specialist, taught in several different types of programs, worked for insurance companies and worked against them :), worked for attorneys, worked for myself, been a case manager in a hospital and for work comp, and an occ health nurse, driven a diaper service delivery truck (!), been a research assistant for several different studies, written articles and edited a book ... there are more but I'm damned if I can remember all of them. Almost all fun, certainly all good learning experiences, and great for someone who is inquisitive and always wants to know everything.

You have no idea how many cool things there are to do with a nursing background, and how many of them built together add up to even more opportunities.

[hope3456, ASN, RN]

I have been a RN for 9 years and am in my 5th job. Each job lasted 1.5 - 2 years. My current position I have now I have been in the longest at 2.5 years - no plans to leave (knock on wood, lol)

[imintrouble, BSN, RN]

Eight jobs in 20 years, give or take one.

The shortest was about 6 weeks.

The longest is where I am now 11 yrs.

I really don't want anymore.

[miranda819, BSN]

Been a RN since Dec. 2011, first job med-surg 4.5 months (was not for me), second job postpartum 9 months (hospital closed the L&D, postpartum and nursery units, not enough births to bring in the $$$), and third, and current job mother-baby 11 months. Not sure what my future holds, but I have gone from full-time to part-time recently.

[Here.I.Stand, BSN, RN]

I've had 5 jobs in 11 yrs, with no plans to leave my current one unless my husband decides to relocate. The shortest time on a job was actually my first job, on the Neuroscience/ENT surgical floor...I left it for the ICU. I didn't give job hopping a thought at the time. Fortunately I didn't shoot myself in the foot--my first manager she me a recommendation for my current job. They asked for at least 3 references to be from former managers, and aside from her and 2 others, I wasn't able to locate any. They had moved on. She said "Sure I remember you. You had a passion for nursing and moved up quickly!" That could very easily have gone badly though; being older and wiser now I would stay at jobs longer unless there was a serious issue.

[Lennonninja, MSN, APRN, NP]

This summer will be 3 years since passing boards. I worked my first job in med surg for 13 months before switching hospitals to get into the ICU, where I've been for almost 2 years. No plans on changing any time soon, I love the ICU!

[ohiobobcat]

I've been a nurse for almost 8 years. I worked med-surg for 18 months, then transferred to the ER in the same facility for another 18 months. Then I worked in an ER in a different facility (5 miles from my house vs. 25 miles at the other place I worked) for almost 5 years. I still work per diem there, but my full time job now is a school nurse, where I have been for 5 months.

[Deepinthegame]

Been in the game for 21 years

So many jobs in nursing ,so many ( I always had two jobs Full/PT) my folks would ask ," Son, why can't you keep a job ?" Those where the days of the real nursing shortage and no real responsibilty . I would keep an agency job just to use as a reference ,and quit every deer hunting season ( Nov.-Feb ) and sometimes turkey hunting season (March to April ) , maybe throw in some goose huntin and come back and look for a new job -get hired that same day. Man, do I miss those days- I'm getting choked up . When income tax time came , I would have a small stack of W2s.