There Are Easy Nursing Jobs......

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Recently spoke with a newly hired RN at my hosital. He has been a nurse for 5 years. the first two on a very busy tele unit. The last three he was an occupational health nurse working night shift in a huge factory. According to the union contract the company had to staff a nurse 24/7 to treat minor injuries and respond to emergencies. He had his own little office outfitted with a phone, desk, computer and cot, yes a cot. During the three years he worked there he recieved exactly TWO calls. Both times to apply a bandaid. He did put his time to good use, earning both a BSN and MSN online during his work hours.

I asked why he would leave a job like that? Bordom was the answer. I asked if his position was still open :)

Specializes in Critical Care, ED, Cath lab, CTPAC,Trauma.
This is the way it is in these small critical access hospital's I work. From 7p-7a I had 24 patients this week, 19 of them came today. You just never know how it's going to be. I have had really crazy nights (usually Fridays), but most nights I just type away on All Nurses like tonight wishing could get some business!

Maybe a vacancy light, I'm expecting a seeker in about 30 minutes (when he gets off shift at his job). Maybe we should do Frequent Flier Miles Program? Ah, That's all another thread.

I did further my education while working places like this. Good breaks in your studies to treat an MVA ejection, and then a fish hook, and then a cold, Lol! But, it's boring sometimes. And, some nights you just have that "Feeling" that the sky is going to fall, . . . and it usually does.

I worked a place like that....ONCE. :bugeyes:

Agency called me for a last minute ICU charge gig. I said no, but they really upped the cash, so I went. ICU charge meant house supervisor with 1 ICU nurse 1 "floor nurse/phlebotomist", 1 LPN/aide, 1 ER nurse, 1 paramedic/rad tech, and the guy in lab. I think the maintenance guy/security guy was an EMT. The ED doc slept at home ("he only lives around the corner").

The proverbial feces hit the HUGE proverbial fan........Let's just state it was the usual friday night bar brawls, and then POW! Morning came and I was directing one helicopter to land as another was taking off, for the second time.:eek: I prayed for a quieter job. (I am such a feces magnet.:o)

But easy job? I'd rather poke my eyes out.:lol2: At least I felt that way before I got sick....:sniff:now any job would be AMAZING...;)

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Specializes in Adult/Ped Emergency and Trauma.

Esme12, Lol, Have we worked together? Lol!

:cheers: ". .to small hospitals!"

That is exactly the way it goes at my "main" job. A 40 bed LTC hooked to a 30 bed (2) unit Acute Care/(10 "Swing" beds, and 5 "ICU" beds. I use the term "ICU" very loosely (usually 99 y/o full code with every tube you could imagine, and every monitoring advice in the deal), also the staff, . . .

Before I get to the staff, let's go into staff "politics," I think everyone is kin to someone here. (Why I learned never to gossip at work, even though they relish in it- Family/No Family. One of the Family Practice Docs here has been married to 2 Nurses, and had a baby with a Pharm Tech (all who work various shifts here in "Harmony" with each other (at least on the surface). There's like 5 last names for 25 staff members (rude exageration). That does include my last name too:jester:!!!

All that said, the Rad tech, is also an EMT/and draws night labs/sends off films. The ER Tech is also goes to the floor on even hours to help CNAs turn patients. The "Floor" nurses back-up the ER, (on week days I am the only nurse in the ER after 11p), and like Esme12 said, some Physicians stay at home, b/c they could jog here in 2 minutes. It's kinda cool because I feel like I have earned a Ph.D in "Improv-Crisis Nursing!" with a minor in family counseling (my staff.)

You never know what is going to happen here!! One night after 3 lifeflights, a famous rock band had a car accident driving on a desolate stretch of interstate headed to New Orleans, and we got a Autographed Pic on my office wall now (that was CRAZY!) Then halloween night last year, a guy was cheating on his wife- in a car on lonely road, BAM! Hit by an empty school bus with one light. I called his emergency number (his wife!!!) and DRAMA!!! It has it's moments! (oh yeah,- he was dressed like a Zombee, and so was his "Date?" so I freaked when they rolled them in, His wife freaked too! but I don't know if it was the Zombie Costume make-up, or the lipstick that was mixed with his- or the fact that he was supposed to be 4 states away on a business trip!!!!

P.S. Esme, you are still affecting the Profession 10 X more than I ever will, YOU ARE AN ASSET!!!!!!!!

:hug:Don't forget that!:bowingpur:nurse:

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Specializes in Rehab, critical care.

That would be a good job to have if you were advancing your education, but other than that, it would be very boring. You literally wouldn't be doing anything worthwhile for your entire shift. He got 2 calls the entire time he was there, so he pretty much just got paid to be on call for a position that didn't really require it.

Time would go by so slowly if you were not studying for class. What would you do? I hate slow nights. They drag on and on. Granted, I always stay busy even on slow nights giving baths or the online competencies if it's really slow. Luckily, I have only had a handful of slow nights. Most are pretty steady.

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I'd work there for free! What a gig.

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Above post-I'm referring to Paramount Studios.

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Specializes in burn ICU, SICU, ER, Trauma Rapid Response.
I worked a place like that....ONCE. :bugeyes:

Agency called me for a last minute ICU charge gig. I said no, but they really upped the cash, so I went. ICU charge meant house supervisor with 1 ICU nurse 1 "floor nurse/phlebotomist", 1 LPN/aide, 1 ER nurse, 1 paramedic/rad tech, and the guy in lab. I think the maintenance guy/security guy was an EMT. The ED doc slept at home ("he only lives around the corner").

The proverbial feces hit the HUGE proverbial fan........Let's just state it was the usual friday night bar brawls, and then POW! Morning came and I was directing one helicopter to land as another was taking off, for the second time.:eek: I prayed for a quieter job. (I am such a feces magnet.:o)

But easy job? I'd rather poke my eyes out.:lol2: At least I felt that way before I got sick....:sniff:now any job would be AMAZING...;)

*** I love it! We are no way in hell are we paid enough. One time I covered a tiny, very rural hospitals (12 beds, in the whole hospital) ER as a favor for a friend who is the nurse manager/ER nurse/ ICU nurse/ transport nurse / head of HR and a few other things at this hospital. On my lonely night shift it happend that there were no patients in the hospital, so there were no other nurses in the hospital. It was just me and a CNA/EMT/Security guard/HUC/phlebotomist there and he was asleep. Our "doctor" was actually an NP (a superb one who really knows her stuff and one time saved my eyesight) but she was in her call room sound aleep about a block away in the nursing home. That left me as one of only two people in the hospital and the only one awake. I had a nurse on call in case we admitted anyone.

At about 1 AM in the door walked a man carrying his 12 year old daughter who was unconscious and white as a sheet. Behind dad came mom carrying the girls right arm in a clear plastic bag. Apperently she had fallen off the front of the boat and the propeller had chopped her arm off cleanly between the elbow and shoulder. They had the presence of mind to look for and fish the girls arm out of the water before bringing her in. Everybody was wearing swimming suits and were FREAQUED OUT. I worked at that girl for about 15 min trying to stablize her and yelling down th hall for the other guy in the hospital to come and help me. He did come to help and I sent him to call the NP. She arrived in what seemed like hours but was really only a few min. By the time she got there I had 2 IOs in and was infusing my 2nd unit of O-neg. We called for the helicopter and got her stable by the time transport got there.

I heard later that the big hospital we sent her to (actually where I worked full time) was able to re-attach her arm and that she is doing pretty well.

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Specializes in burn ICU, SICU, ER, Trauma Rapid Response.
I worked a place like that....ONCE. :bugeyes:

Agency called me for a last minute ICU charge gig. I said no, but they really upped the cash, so I went. ICU charge meant house supervisor with 1 ICU nurse 1 "floor nurse/phlebotomist", 1 LPN/aide, 1 ER nurse, 1 paramedic/rad tech, and the guy in lab. I think the maintenance guy/security guy was an EMT. The ED doc slept at home ("he only lives around the corner").

The proverbial feces hit the HUGE proverbial fan........Let's just state it was the usual friday night bar brawls, and then POW! Morning came and I was directing one helicopter to land as another was taking off, for the second time.:eek: I prayed for a quieter job. (I am such a feces magnet.:o)

But easy job? I'd rather poke my eyes out.:lol2: At least I felt that way before I got sick....:sniff:now any job would be AMAZING...;)

*** We used to wear these on our uniforms when I was an army combat medic. I award you one feces magnet pach, well earned!

http://www.penangmedia.com/cms/uploadfile/2009/0910/****-magnet.jpg

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Specializes in Acute Mental Health.
Why union jobs have largely disappeared from USA....pulling this kind of crap.

Really!?! I have one of those union jobs and I work my butt off!! We are always short staffed and have very dangerous patients. Unions have very little say these days and although belts should have been tightened, it is now extremely unsafe and the facility could care less. Their motto: If you don't like it leave, I have 20 rns waiting to take your place. Gotta love the times :)

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Specializes in Med/surg/tele/liver transpant/SCD.

Where is this job??? it's definetely giving me an idea. I'm russian, so maybe I should look for something like this in my area. I would prob get hired just because I speak the language.Med/surg is starting to get to me with all the drunk and the pain-seeking and the homeless with maggots crawling ot of their skin... just saying...

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Specializes in ICU.

Man, its not even like he needs to stay awake. He can still keep a normal schedule, sleep on the job, because they obviously provide a cot, and you could still work extra somewhere else thats more interesting, not feel overworked and make a ton of extra money!

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Why union jobs have largely disappeared from USA....pulling this kind of crap.

My understanding is that the factory union required that a nurse be on site for the benefit of the employees. Which means that the union was advocating for the factory employees. The factory hired the nurse, not the union.

I work for a union facility and I run harder then I ever ran in any non-union facility. The only difference is that I can't be fired on a whim by management.

On the plus side, when union members pull together we are able to get bad employees out, and we have had some people who shouldn't even be nurses removed, which is the way we advocate for our patients.

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Specializes in Care Coordination, MDS, med-surg, Peds.

I did occ health PRN for awhile. The bosses at the factory tried really hard to make me feel guilty for being paid, "Such a huge" amount for "doing nothing". LOL I just reminded them that they would be glad I was there when they had the MI that was brewing and needed a nurse to help stabilize them prior to transport and to help with CPR.

Occ health nurses, sometimes are there just "in case poo hits the oscillator". I know in one time period, I did 4 days. I had 3 in for ASA and 1 for kaopectate, one fell and twisted ankle, one with low blood sugar. The rest of the time... nada.. This was a day shift.

The factory had first-responders, so by the time I got across the factory, or down the street to the other facility, the firsters had it handled and the ambulance called if needed.

It seemed that most of the job was wait wait wait and deal with workers Comp stuff.

BOred, but it was nice to be quiet, as I worked at a busy med-surg floor of a large hospital at the time.

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