Ideas for producing some income while in school?

Imafloat, BSN, RN · May 6, 2005

Could you get a pool nurses aide job? It will help with your clinical skills and they are usually very flexible when you are pool.

nursehottie · May 6, 2005

Hi Everyone,
I am new to this, but I have been reading everyone's posts for information and for a laugh or two (Thread: You know you are a nursing student when...)
I have been accepted to start the ADN program in August 2005. Right now I work Full-Time and I have been my sole provider of money since I was 19. The school I am attending recommends that you work less than 20 hours per work to be successful in the program. My current job needs me full-time so I will be quitting in June.
However, I am still going to need Income. I will be getting $10,000.00 a year (to repay) from the Stafford Loan. Realistically, and I hate to be ungrateful, I am going to need more than that. Who can live off of that for a year? And it is only supposed to be used for school expenses - but everything will be a school expense for me! :chuckle
Anyone have ideas for additional places for me to look for loans? Until I get IN the nursing program, it appears as though grants and scholarships won't be available to me. Besides that, I am a busy 28 year old and I am not a "community leader" or anything like that.
Anyone have ideas on ways to make a little cash (under the eye of the IRS) while I am IN school? I don't need to make a ton of cash, as I don't want to jeopardize my meager financial aid.
I have thought of babysitting, or tutoring kids? Stripping? :rotfl: No, seriously...anyone with ideas???

You could clean houses. They charge at least 10/hour, which is more than an aide at the hospital.

angie1982 · May 6, 2005

Hi Everyone,
I am new to this, but I have been reading everyone's posts for information and for a laugh or two (Thread: You know you are a nursing student when...)
I have been accepted to start the ADN program in August 2005. Right now I work Full-Time and I have been my sole provider of money since I was 19. The school I am attending recommends that you work less than 20 hours per work to be successful in the program. My current job needs me full-time so I will be quitting in June.
However, I am still going to need Income. I will be getting $10,000.00 a year (to repay) from the Stafford Loan. Realistically, and I hate to be ungrateful, I am going to need more than that. Who can live off of that for a year? And it is only supposed to be used for school expenses - but everything will be a school expense for me! :chuckle
Anyone have ideas for additional places for me to look for loans? Until I get IN the nursing program, it appears as though grants and scholarships won't be available to me. Besides that, I am a busy 28 year old and I am not a "community leader" or anything like that.
Anyone have ideas on ways to make a little cash (under the eye of the IRS) while I am IN school? I don't need to make a ton of cash, as I don't want to jeopardize my meager financial aid.
I have thought of babysitting, or tutoring kids? Stripping? :rotfl: No, seriously...anyone with ideas???

you could try working in a restaurant as a waitress. it is a quick way to make good money in a small amount of time. I did it for five years while in nursing school. I worked about 20 hours a week and averaged anywhere from 12-20/hr, depending on if business was good. Plus it is a great way to learn excellent customer service skills, since hospitals are big on customer service to their patients.

zambezi, BSN, RN · May 6, 2005

You could donate plasma.

Work at a coffee drive thru (if they have them where you live, they are everywhere here).

Waitressing

NurseFirst · May 6, 2005

Take some training and become a first aid/CPR instructor.

Work as a caretaker for a disabled person (some of these are "in home" positions, so you can get room and board as well as pay). Work in a drug store? UPS is always advertising as an employer at our community college.

NurseFirst

alexillytom · May 6, 2005

I just contacted Bayada Nurses and they offer a Certified Home Health Aide course. It lasts three weeks, M-F 3:30p - 10pm. It costs $200 but I'll be able to work part-time as a CHHA after it's done. She told me that there may be light housekeeping but the main focus of the position is patient hygiene. I'm seriously considering exploring this option.

If not, I'm going back to work at Target. They were always very flexible with my school schedule when I worked there a couple of years ago.

manna, BSN, RN · May 6, 2005

Here lately, I've been making about $100/week doing mystery shopping (funding my vacation/graduation savings, Yay)! :)

Jennie_FutureRN · May 6, 2005

Thanks for all the great ideas. You all are giving me some really great ideas. Keep them coming if anyone has more. I LOVE it!

NurseFirst · May 6, 2005

Thanks for all the great ideas. You all are giving me some really great ideas. Keep them coming if anyone has more. I LOVE it!

Oh yeah, I just remembered--there are a number of companies that provide non-medical companions for the elderly, and, I assume, disabled. You do things like provide transportation, cook meals.

Also, people get hired as "sitters" for patients. I've never figured out how you get those jobs--but you might be a sitter for a patient in an LTC or in an acute care setting. Sometimes they use sitters to make sure that a suspected bulimic doesn't vomit; to make sure people don't pull out tubes, etc. You can do a search on this site, because "sitters" have been discussed in other threads.

NurseFirst

Gampopa · May 6, 2005

Be a Guinea Pig! If there is a Research Hospial near your nursing school see if they are recruiting for subjects.

Andi33 · May 7, 2005

Have you looked into work-study? At my CC we have an option in our financial aid package that allows us to work on campus. The pay isn't much (about 5.75 an hour) and the max. hours you can work in one week is 20 hours, but they work around your class schedule and you can sqeeze your hours in between classes. The jobs may not be the best; I'm going to work in registration doing filing, but for me it's conveinient because my school is 30 minutes away and I can kill 2 birds with 1 stone!