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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 :)

I did that occupational health job one time. I thought it was hilarious that I would sit in an office at a desk for an entire shift and do nothing, except eat the lunch I had brought. Easy job, but somebody has to do it!

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Specializes in Adult/Ped Emergency and 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 Allnurses 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.

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There was a time when I would have KILLED for that job, when I was going insane trying to take care of too many, too sick patients on a surgical floor, and trying to be in charge of brand new nurses at the same time. Even with some very good ones, they were still new enough to never have done some important skills, and I had to be there for them as well as manage everything else.

Now, I work in a much more even-paced setting, am the manager of that setting (but I do still do patient care, and love it). I have time to get things done in an orderly manner and while I'm busy, it's not insane.

I utilize my spare time to pick up CEU's, read trade journals; I do LOTS of online reading and researching. Actually, makes it easy to pop in and out of AN! ;)

But would I want to have MORE spare time and become someone who applies a bandaid now and then? Don't see it. I enjoy interacting with patients and family members, doing patient education (I do LOTS of that)....I think if I were to be offered a job now like the OP describes, I'd have to turn it down (unless, of course, it paid MORE than I make now, or better benefits, LOL...)

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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 Allnurses 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.

Your job sounds interesting in that you have no set routines, no expectations of exactly how your night will go. I guess I could have said that of my charge gig on a very busy med-surg unit, but in many ways it was predictable...and yours really isn't.

But maybe that's actually something I like about my job now: I have some very predictable patterns, I know what portion of the day I'm providing patient care and education about their procedures and conditions, and when I'm going to be dealing with equipment and drug reps about their products.

Still, your gig does sound nice :)

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Specializes in PDN; Burn; Phone triage.
Is GI lab easy? When I've accompanied a patient down there, it sure seems so. Patients come in one at a time, MD scopes this and that, pt comes out of light sedation and good-bye.

Or the Pulmonary Function lab? Breathe this way.. now that way. Please don't pass out.

Hyperbarics is a pretty sweet deal from what my colleagues tell me.

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I did that occupational health job one time. I thought it was hilarious that I would sit in an office at a desk for an entire shift and do nothing, except eat the lunch I had brought. Easy job, but somebody has to do it!

Maybe that's my retirement gig? I don't know...sometimes I think they'll find me dead at my desk and STILL ask me when the monthlies are done....

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Specializes in Certified Med/Surg tele, and other stuff.

sign me up!

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Hyperbarics is a pretty sweet deal from what my colleagues tell me.

ooh, not in the last facility I worked....it was a tomb, one RN and in case of a code, good luck with that...no room to move.

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Specializes in Hospice / Ambulatory Clinic.
I did that occupational health job one time. I thought it was hilarious that I would sit in an office at a desk for an entire shift and do nothing, except eat the lunch I had brought. Easy job, but somebody has to do it!

That sounds exactly the job I need right now. Study time, knitting time. Sign me up.

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Specializes in PACU.

Private duty home care is quite easy most of the time. There certainly are challenges at times, but overall it's easy. Esp. on night shift.

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Specializes in Telemetry, OB, NICU.

While I'd appreciate having a less stressful job than my current one, I don't think I could do this either. You are basically sitting there and staring at the walls all day? Or do homework at least? Not for me. That wouldn't even feel like work and I would feel useless.

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Specializes in CRNA, Finally retired.
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 :)

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

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