Need advice on new job opportunities

Livingdeadnurse · Oct 4, 2014

Also one makes a little more than the other.

Livingdeadnurse · Oct 5, 2014

Ok I did a pro and con list and decided against the correctional nurse. Too far away and way less money..

My next dilemma..leaving the hospital ER and taking the psych job. I can't tell if I won't leave because I am afraid of change or that I actually don't want to leave the ER. Not to mention going from 12 hour shifts 3 days one week and 4 days the next to 5 8 hour shifts. But it's a state job isn't that better?

Editorial Team / Moderator · Oct 6, 2014

The grass is always greener, as you know. Do you enjoy working with the psych patients in your ED? Or are you just so burned out that anything else seems great? I have been working in an ED since 2005, so I get it. It took a 9-month deployment to help me appreciate my "normal" ED life! Good luck, whatever you decide!

Livingdeadnurse · Oct 6, 2014

I do like psych patients. Not so much burnt out on ER life as much as what they keep adding to our job requirements. For the first time in a long time I am scared of losing my license due to unsafe working conditions. I dread going into work most days. But there are time I remember why I do like it. But anymore it seems few and far between. The grass isn't always greener which I why I am scared to change.

Livingdeadnurse · Oct 6, 2014

Not everything sounds greater. I did turn down a couple of job offers.

Editorial Team / Moderator · Oct 6, 2014

Can you stay PRN at your ED?

Livingdeadnurse · Oct 7, 2014

Yes i can