I want to be a nurse with a 9-5 job w/ weekends and holidays off

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Are you ready for Halloween? Do you have a costume to wear?

If you had to choose a costume what would it be and why?

Happy Halloween!

Specializes in ICU, psych, corrections.

Hey, that's me! I work Monday through Friday 7am to 4pm with weekends and holidays off, no overtime EVER. I actually get to sit down and enjoy lunch (I'm on my lunch break now). I love, love, love my job in that I have the opportunity to do LOTS of patient education (I have 30 min with each patient individually). I never want to return to hospital nursing....ever. The best part is I'm only taking a small paycut....in the hospital setting here, I would make about $31/hr. I currently making $30/hr. Small price to pay....literally. Especially when you have 3 kiddos with various activities after school :-)

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Specializes in Ambulatory Surgery, Ophthalmology, Tele.
Life_is_good_1973 said:
Hey, that's me! I work Monday through Friday 7am to 4pm with weekends and holidays off, no overtime EVER. I actually get to sit down and enjoy lunch (I'm on my lunch break now). I love, love, love my job in that I have the opportunity to do LOTS of patient education (I have 30 min with each patient individually). I never want to return to hospital nursing....ever. The best part is I'm only taking a small paycut....in the hospital setting here, I would make about $31/hr. I currently making $30/hr. Small price to pay....literally. Especially when you have 3 kiddos with various activities after school ?

It was an $8/hour decrease for me but I worked in one of the highest paying hospitals in the area ($40/hr). I don't miss the three 12s either. When I made the change (to Mon-Fri) I thought alot about this choice. But the more I thought about it, it made more sense for me. Yeah, the days off during the week were nice, but my first day off was shot from the crazy long days/shifts I just worked. All I wanted to do on my first day off was veg, sip on my coffee slowly, play on AN, watch chick flicks...(you get the idea ;)) Then my second day off, getting ready to go back to work (laundry, groceries, chores...) Then back I went to do it all over again. No thank you, done with that. And I love being home every weekend. Last but not least, this year would have been my turn to work Christmas. Not anymore. :yeah:

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Home care nursing can be very comfortable depending the company you work for. Outpatient clinics can be as busy as hospitals sometimes but the hours are primarily days mon - friday with no holidays. I know some nurses that do case management too. However, i try to at least pick up time in the hospital because i plan to do the travel nurse thing in the near future and most agencies require at least 1 year in the hospital or in acute care.

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Specializes in Post Surgical.

Hoping to score public health to get these hours!

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Specializes in Post Surgical.
ORoxyO said:
Does 7a-5p count? And yes I work in a hospital. No holiday or weekends

What area are you in?

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For me this isn't a costume! I have weekends off and even holidays :) And I work in a hospital! I negotiated and got an excellent schedule.

I'm busy on the weekends and can't work. And I hate twelve hour shifts!

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0800-1700 job - M-F - Case management.

06:30 I hit the snooze button, then I get up, shower, light breakfast, hit the morning traffic commute and make it inside my office or department 10 minutes before my start time.

- 0800 lots of voice and e-mails, then the usual case management duties, all throughout the day.

1 hour lunch break, sure.

17:00 - meeting deadlines, last minute phone calls with insurance companies; ensuring patients were actually discharged and "transported" away from the hospital.

17:30ish documentation and all.

17:5018:00ish I'm driving home, hitting the merciless rush hour commute.

18:30-18:50ish, Home, work-out, dinner, shower, then night night by 10ish PM.

I was basically working 12 hours every single day and that's Monday to Fridays! :facepalm:

That's how it was every single day of my life for two years!!!

Back to the Present Time....

I'm happy with my 12 hours a day, 3 days a week gig!!!! :up:

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Specializes in clinic, ortho/neuro, trauma, college.

I work in college health. Some larger colleges/universities may have weekend/evening hours, but I do not. It's a great gig, great benefits, tuition assistance for myself and my kids after a few years. I work Monday through Friday, 9:30 - 5pm. We are counting down until winter break in 5 weeks, when we'll get two and a half PAID weeks off. Best move ever.

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Specializes in Psych, Addictions, SOL (Student of Life).

I don't work 9 to 5 but I do work 7-3 with a weekly RDO and every other weekend. Works for me.

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Specializes in NICU.

I too would love a Mon-Fri 9-5 nursing job with weekends and holidays off. Other than school nursing, I havent been able to find many positions open to RNs. I currently work weekends (night shift). I LOVE night shift and working 3 12s in a row with 4 days off. It's ideal for ME. Unfortunately, having a young child and husband at home, I find my schedule is not the best for work/life balance. I would never have thought I'd want to go back to a typical 40 hour 5 day work week like I did in my prior job field but I never get to spend time with my family on the weekends and it's tough.

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I did work M-F, 8 to 4 for the last few years of my RN career to get experience at a mental health clinic, while I worked on my Psych NP degree. The pay was absolutely awful. Less than LTC.

It was a big sacrifice. But I did not want to be stuck working nights.

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Specializes in IMC, school nursing.
On 10/25/2012 at 5:10 PM, echoRNC711 said:

9-5 In a hospital....right....and I'm second in line to the pope!

A lot of nurses believe that. The angels here on earth thing.

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