Tough Job Decision!

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Specializes in Emergency, Trauma, Critical Care.

Honestly, it's really tough. I've asked advice from a lot of nurses, and the results are 50/50. Just looking for a few more opinions and insight:

Got a job offer for Telemetry Unit at Veterans Hospital Long Beach AND

a Case Management job working for an Insurance Company.

Both are more money than I make now, and I'm kinda burnt out on ICU anyway. So I'm probably going to take one of them.

Pros of VALB:

Government retirement/benefits/etc

Probably a lot of $

Good Education Loan Repayment/Continue Education opportunities (I've got some hefty student loans)

Cons of VALB:

Night shift (I do have a son who misses me a lot)

Telemetry Unit, different from what I'm used to, I've floated to Tele before, it was ok.

Pros of Insurance Case Management Job:

Case Management is hard to break into, and they will train me.

Still a bit more money than what I make right now.

The hours: m-f 8-5

Cons of Case Management Job:

Well...doesn't seem to be much other than working 5 days a week, which I do sometimes anyway for the overtime.

Probably the tough skin I'm going to have to develop when people don't agree with decisions I have to make.

So what would you recommend???

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