A confusing interview...should I be concerned?

[HeatherGurl84]

I am an RN that is currently seeking employment. Throughout my nursing career, I have been a Public Health Nurse, only working in doctors office/medical clinic settings. I still feel new considering I graduated in May of 2010.

I interviewed at a very busy orthopedic clinic yesterday and left confused. The manager told me that the position would entail working for a very "needy" physician who needs his "hand held" to run his day. These we her exact words. She told me their normal hours are 8am-5pm but they have nurses who are there until 8pm just trying to get caught up on work. She then proceeds to ask me "Have I scared you yet?"

I am in desperate need of employment. I have been without a job since May of 2012 and clinic work is all I have every known, so I am applying to family medicine/doctors offices.

I just wonder if I am capable of handling this if the job we offered to me.

Any advice?

Thank you!

Heather

[swansonplace]

Which area do you live in? Where I live there are not that many openings.

[HeatherGurl84]

Which area do you live in? Where I live there are not that many openings.

I live in North Carolina.

[swansonplace]

Thank you. I will keep it in mind in florida students are really looking for jobs and they are scarce.

[HeatherGurl84]

it can still be touch and go here with job opportunities......hoping to find something soon.

[jadelpn, LPN, EMT-B]

The manager was being honest. Perhaps too honest.

If you don't relish the thought of hand-holding, mandatory overtime, a what appears on the surface to be a whole lotta drama, then continue to look.

This job appears as if it is in direct contrast to your goals. Even if this doctor is awesome, you may be stressed by the rest of the office staff--any manager who is that brutally honest and degrading of the boss, I am not sure that I would be willing to play. OR you would be waiting for some other shoe to drop. All until 8pm each evening.....

With that being said, some nurses thrive on active, busy offices, and can multi-task and hand hold and be able to step back from the hand holding to be able to keep things running smoothly as time goes on.

All in all, wouldn't be my first choice, but if there is no other choice, may work short term (or long term depending on your professional likes and dislikes and abilities) while you continue to look at other options....

[HeatherGurl84]

The manager was being honest. Perhaps too honest.

If you don't relish the thought of hand-holding, mandatory overtime, a what appears on the surface to be a whole lotta drama, then continue to look.

This job appears as if it is in direct contrast to your goals. Even if this doctor is awesome, you may be stressed by the rest of the office staff--any manager who is that brutally honest and degrading of the boss, I am not sure that I would be willing to play. OR you would be waiting for some other shoe to drop. All until 8pm each evening.....

With that being said, some nurses thrive on active, busy offices, and can multi-task and hand hold and be able to step back from the hand holding to be able to keep things running smoothly as time goes on.

All in all, wouldn't be my first choice, but if there is no other choice, may work short term (or long term depending on your professional likes and dislikes and abilities) while you continue to look at other options....

Thank You! It really isnt my first choice, of course they havent made me any type of offer yet. I am keeping my options open. I need something with much less stress flowing through it. I already know bedside nursing is NOT my cup of tea, so I am researching other opportunities.

[jadelpn, LPN, EMT-B]

Just throwing it out there--how about seeing if you can put in an application for a substitute school nurse? In the summer supplement with camp nursing?

Or any express care/minute clinics or urgent care in the area? Even per diem?

Or nursing staff at one of those job site places? Blood bank? Even an ER in a smaller community hospital.

I would apply for as many per diem positions as possible.