where are non-hospital 10-12 hr nursing shifts?

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Does anyone have any innovative ideas on where RNs could work 3-4 days a week (full time 10-12 hrs/day), but not be in the hospital environment.

I'm a bit stuck here, b/c I love community health nursing, but hate the hours. Then I hate hospital nursing, but love the hours.

9-5 is so predictable and I'd prefer to have whole days to get things done..like work out during non-peak hours, go to MD visits without filling out papers 2 wks in advance.

I've already thought of dialysis nursing...other ideas would be appreciated.

I'm not sure what you have around where you live but I know urgent care type clinics have longer "extended" hours and open on the weekends. I currently work in urgent care and I work 14 hour shifts (2 of them and then a 7 hour shift) and I'm done for the week!! :) Love it!! Hope that helps.

I'm not sure what you have around where you live but I know urgent care type clinics have longer "extended" hours and open on the weekends. I currently work in urgent care and I work 14 hour shifts (2 of them and then a 7 hour shift) and I'm done for the week!! :) Love it!! Hope that helps.

yeah....that's a good idea!!! i've been flirting with the idea of ED nursing, but frankly don't think i could handle the chaos for the long term.

it seems urgent care is a face paced Dr.'s Office that mostly sees non-emergent situations. could you just give me an example of the kinds of cases that come in.

Thank you for posting.

We see about 100 patients in a 14 hr shift.....2 nurse work 14 hrs and 1 nurse works like 10 - 11 hrs. We are a really busy clinic and see alot.....mostly cold like symptoms but we also see...lacerations, CP, SOB/asthma, work injuries, sprains/fx (we X-ray & cast), and cellulitis/abscess type cases. Everyday is different...some better than others. I like it cause it's not boring!!! :) The day goes by really fast. I hope this helps.

One other thing is that we do send out alot to the ERs because we can't manage them there (Ex:the CP folks) so it's not exactly like working in an ER because we don't have that kind of capably. We start IVs/do EKGs but if it looks like they need further monitoring out they go...

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