I'm happy overall at my clinic where I am one of two staff nurses. Very small, 12 chairs, and the census is down to 34 patients, so it's pretty easy right now- almost too easy to the point of getting about 65 hours per pay. But I assume we'll get more patients at some point so that issue will probably fix itself. The other nurse can be difficult. If you read some of my past posts, she has been a problem for me and others. We work fine together face to face, but I don't trust her, and she's recently had patient complaints regarding favoritism towards certain patients and treating others poorly. Nothing happened other than a team huddle where we were all told not to have favorites.
Our CM is getting her NP degree and is down to the last couple of months of her program and already has a job lined up. They were supposed to post her job months ago, but issues came up in our region and it hasn't been posted yet. I had no intention of applying for it but decided if they asked I would consider taking the position. A few months ago the CM said she had someone in mind for the job, but didn't say anything else. I figured they were going with someone else. Which was fine with me. Yesterday we were both taking our lunch and talking about how expensive everything has gotten and she casually mentions that if I took the CM position that could help be helpful. I was like- are you serious? She said that I was her only recommendation and I could pretty much have the job if I wanted it. She was so casual with it- it made it weird, and seemed kind of flippant, but we talked a bit about it and I told her I would consider it.
I'm really unsure about what direction to go - pros and cons-
Pros- salary is consistent, I'm looking at over $100,00/yearly (at least according to what she makes), not having to get up at 3 am and having some flex to my schedule, knowing the docs, staff, and patients already. And the staff is very independent- we generally keep things running with very little help from her. Doing something different- the same thing day after day can get a little monotonous.
Cons- always on call, not being able to leave work at work. Dealing with staff (particularly the one nurse), possibly having to cover the floor while we find a new staff nurse and learning the CM position at the same time, and the general stress of middle management. I also have 4 teenagers at home, so I'm super busy outside of work plus I am just getting back into volunteering at my church in ways that do take a lot of time, but that I really love. I don't know if my introverted self will do well with trying to fit it all in. I think it can be done but I don't know if I want to.
So it could be a good opportunity and I'm just overthinking it. Any CMs out there with their thoughts?
traumaRUs, MSN, APRN
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Ugh! So very frustrating. It's reasons like this ie poor communication from the suit folks that cause RNs to leave
I'm very sorry for your frustration