Accepted one job but got a better offer. What should I do?

AZMOMO2 · Dec 31, 2011

Thank you so much for the offer and value your facility and am sure that I would have enjoyed working with you, however, at this time I was offered a fulltime position, and for the sake of myself and my familes needs I am inclined to accept the fulltime offer.

Either they will offer you a fulltime position too, or they will say OK.

In Nursing I have found that staff come and go and employers seldsome care one way or the other in the long run. Its not as if you signed a long term contract

Marshall1 · Dec 31, 2011

As others have posted, be honest, short and to the point. It would be silly to take a part time position when this other position offers so much more. Good luck in your new FT job!!

Esme12, ASN, BSN, RN · Dec 31, 2011

You said these are both LPN positions. Do they know you are about to become an RN? Whether you are hired as a LPN when you become the RN you will be held responsible to the higher license at a lower pay. Will they be keeping you as a RN when you pass your boards? The issue of hiring you as an LPN but being counted as a RN has been talked about here before. I can't find the thread.....but essentially it also depends on your state as well as far as being "allowed" to be hired as an LPN when holding the RN license..... you would then be practicing without a license. In litigation you will be held to the standard of the RN whether or not that is what you were hired for that position.

Many LTC facilities are "not hiring RN's" but will hired LPN's and unbeknownst to the RN they are being counted as the RN in the facility with the state and federal government for regulatory purposes....and paying you LPN wages which in most cases are significantly less.

I would check with the employer/HR department of but positionsand be sure they are aware that you are waiting to sit for boards as an RN. What position will be available after you recieve your license....will you be trying to leave LTC once you are a RN? If so then I'd do the part time and not the administrative position. It wouldn't be fair to the LTC facility to get you up and running in an admoinistrative positin just to have you leave them high and dry in a few months.

Good luck on your new job whichever you take and good luck on boards!

CapeCodMermaid, RN · Jan 2, 2012

An administrative position straight out of school might not be the best idea. How will you learn to be a nurse if you're in an office?

AZMOMO2 · Jan 2, 2012

Many LTC facilities are "not hiring RN's" but will hired LPN's and unbeknownst to the RN they are being counted as the RN in the facility with the state and federal government for regulatory purposes....and paying you LPN wages which in most cases are significantly less.
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Really? That is not the case around here, LTCs are only hiring RNs, no longer hiring LPNs and are giving them what used to be LPN starting pay (which mind you is actually the current New grad RN rate at the local hospitals), and yes they are treated like RNs and have all of the RN roles, as well as are locked to the medcart for 20-30 residents.

NurseLoveJoy88, ASN, RN · Jan 3, 2012

Update- The "better offer" was not a better offer. They wanted to pay me a salary of 25000 for 40 plus hours a week. I respectfully declined and will keep the LTC part-time offer until something else comes up...

BTW- I started with 45,000 as a new grad RN, haven't seen 13 an hour since I was 16 y/o...