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Hi Guys!! Lets not make this a very long topic. I will make it short. very short. Anyways, I have a PRN Home Health Nursing job which I dont really like but I am having fun at the moment. Going to places I've never been before is scary at first but its challenging and I LOVE IT. But I have another problem. I want to have another nursing job to save some money to support my family. I am dying to include my Home Health nursing job experience but I am confuse how will I do it coz I am fairly new to the agency - I am in my one month of hire. Do i need to place it in my resume and ask my director for reference? If I will have an interview, what will I say to them or to the interviewer? Please I am so confuse. I am now collecting applications from facilities around my area. Plus, I dont want to wait coz someone might got the position that I am aiming for. Any ideas?

Give your current supervisor a heads up. She will understand your need for more income and should be happy to present a good reference for you even though you have just started. As for your resume, just list it with the starting month and "present". If the starting month is this month, so be it. If this is your only nursing job, you don't want to leave it off altogether. Your interviewer will know that you are just starting out on your first job. Either they will be amenable to hiring you or they won't. Be sure to consider how you will make the schedules for two jobs work, I expect they might ask something like that. Don't overdo it if you get hired for another job. Good luck.

You don't really like it but you LOVE it? I'd work on your clarity before interviewing.

You have a prn job and you want more hours. Nobody will fault you for applying for places where you can get them.

Be prepared, though, for what might happen when you ask for a reference from a supervisor that hasn't seen much of you. In a month. She might say she doesn't feel she can do that now. Don't argue. Or she might ask you to increase your hours at the prn job, and you'll have to decide whether you want to say yes (because you just told them you want more hours) or no (and then they'll figure you didn't really intend to stay anyway, and cut you loose).

Sometimes, especially in home care where people can come and go like moths, they'll hire you prn to see if you're going to be any use to them. If you aren't, then it's easier to let you go when you come back in a month or six weeks and tell them you found another job. So this might be a test of how well you're really doing in this job that you, umm, don't really like but you LOVE.

Sounds like you have some more thoughtful considering to do.

And please, when you fill out your applications, don't use txtspk like "coz."

Thank you for your wonderful comments. I need to clarify something. Home Health is the job that I dont really like but learned to love it every single day. I decided that I will not place reference from my current job because it is new and they dont really know me well. But how about placing it in work history? All applications needs some reference from work. Or I will just say no because its a new job? Is it acceptable?

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Nope, that didn't really provide any clarity.

Do you have nursing experience previous to this current HH job? If so, I would not ask current employer for a reference. They don't know you yet.

I totally get the notion of looking to supplement your income.

HOWEVER, my advice is to cool your jets and get settled in to your new position for a bit before you immediately look to add another gig.

Are you an experienced nurse? Are you looking for another HH gig or to get into an acute care position?

My very short take on it is that you're going to dump this HH position the second you get what you're looking for. If I see it, your boss probably will, too. As a newbie PRN nurse, it's very easy to cut you loose. Personally, I'd shore up my present position and go from a position of strength.

Are you an experienced nurse? Are you looking for another HH gig or to get into an acute care position?

My very short take on it is that you're going to dump this HH position the second you get what you're looking for. If I see it, your boss probably will, too. As a newbie PRN nurse, it's very easy to cut you loose. Personally, I'd shore up my present position and go from a position of strength.

I just recently pass my boards and just got the HH job. How many months before I could place my current position in my resume. I am really confuse right now because I want another income to support myself and being a PRN nurse will starve me and my goals.

Why would you have to wait any months before putting the job on your resume? If you started the job today, you put it on your resume today. Do not put artificial stumbling blocks in front of yourself. The potential employer will find out that you started the job today when they call the other employer to verify employment.

The potential employer will find out that you started the job today when they call the other employer to verify employment.

Do you mean that it is okay to place my current prn job in work history in every application? and place my boss as a contact person?

Specializes in Pediatrics, Emergency, Trauma.
Do you mean that it is okay to place my current prn job in work history in every application? and place my boss as a contact person?

You will have to in order to prove that you are at least working and trying to get experience; why wouldn't you? :confused:

Specializes in L&D, infusion, urology.

You could list it, and if they ask during an interview (and surely they'll ask about that job), you can be honest and say that you are learning a ton, and want to stay, but aren't getting enough hours. Do you have other work experience? Other healthcare experience?

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