My Cushy Per Diem Job

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Specializes in ER.

OK, so my Per Diem job is utterly cushy. LOL, hooray!

I'm glad I got this totally cushy PRN job.

Does anyone else have a really easy side gig, where they don't have to really work hard?

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Specializes in retired LTC.

Be careful about bragging ...

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Specializes in Family Nurse Practitioner.

Yes although its medsurg its nice to earn base pay +10/hr on weekend nights. Ratios are low and charting is manageable and clientele is good.

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Specializes in Family Nurse Practitioner.

Congrats on new job..

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Specializes in ICU, psych, corrections.

My regular nursing job in the prison infirmary is fairly cushy. It pays very well, about $43/hour and there isn't much going on 80% of the time. The hardest part is trying to figure out which inmate is attempting to compromise you this week.

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Specializes in ICU.

Hoping to get mine sorted soon, as soon as my coworkers actually complete the reference forms they said they'd do for me!

Pinning down a nurse to finish a reference form is a lot like trying to hold water in a sieve sometimes.

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Specializes in Pediatrics, Emergency, Trauma.

I've had cushy second jobs, in home health private duty where kids slept through the night with no complications; I also had a job in ambulatory care where somedays were very cushy, and the plus was I got paid per hour top pay, similar to a weekend program rate.

My job I reduced to PRN hours can be cushy sometimes; sometimes it can feel like a zoo; I'll see how it works out from my new job once I get my feet wet at this new job. :D

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Specializes in Med/Surg, Academics.

I had a cushy, easy PDN job. Quit it after five months because I was bored to tears!

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Specializes in Oncology.

I have coworkers that work with an agency. They're constantly getting called to go be the token RN at nursing homes staffed mainly with LPN's. They round once or twice a shift to see if anyone needs anything, but mostly sit in their office twiddling their thumbs.

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Specializes in Med-Surg, NICU.

Question: Is it possible to get a PRN job in a specialty in which you've never worked?

I know quite a few people who have PRN jobs on top of a full-time job, but they are all in the same specialty.

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Specializes in Med/Surg, Tele, Dialysis, Hospice.
I have coworkers that work with an agency. They're constantly getting called to go be the token RN at nursing homes staffed mainly with LPN's. They round once or twice a shift to see if anyone needs anything, but mostly sit in their office twiddling their thumbs.

Wow, really? In every nursing home I've ever seen or worked at, every single nurse, RN or LPN, is stretched so thin you can almost see through them. I've never heard of a nursing home that pays anyone to just "round once or twice a shift" or "sit in their office twiddling their thumbs"! Sounds like your co-workers have fallen into a rare and wonderful thing!

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Specializes in Pediatrics, Emergency, Trauma.
Wow, really? In every nursing home I've ever seen or worked at, every single nurse, RN or LPN, is stretched so thin you can almost see through them. I've never heard of a nursing home that pays anyone to just "round once or twice a shift" or "sit in their office twiddling their thumbs"! Sounds like your co-workers have fallen into a rare and wonderful thing!

As a nursing supervisor at a nursing home, I have "twiddled my thumbs".

The DON does not staff RNs on the floor; so you find yourself sitting there, after rounds doing not a thing...on a good shift.

I'm actually thinking about giving that gig up.

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