Good Part-Time Job for Nursing Student- thinking Pharm Tech

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I am starting a BSN program this Fall. It's four semesters = 2 years, and while my husband and I have prepared for me to be out of work, I would still like to get a part-time job. We will be paying for full-time childcare, so I want to take advantage of every extra hour that I have. I know that nursing programs are intense, so I'm not planning on getting a job right away until I get a feel for how my schedule will be.

In the meantime, what is a good part-time job for a nursing student? I want something that will increase my chances of being hired as a new grad. I'm a non-traditional student (i.e. older than most nursing students) so I really need to do something that will make me a more attractive hire.

My college offers CE courses for various certifications such as pharm tech, CNA, phlebotomy tech, EKG tech, medical administrative assistant, etc. I'm really leaning towards pharm tech. I've done the math, and it would take me about three weeks of working 30 hours to pay off the cost of the pharm tech course.

Any thoughts/advice is greatly appreciated.

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Specializes in anesthesiology.

I would lean HEAVILY towards CNA. Find out if you even need to be "certified" as a patient care tech (CNA) if you're in nursing school. Many of my classmates took jobs as PCTs during nursing school to help get jobs once we graduated, and none of us had to take any extra courses to start working in the hospital. I was a PCT in the ICU and I swear I got more experience doing that than I did in nursing school.

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thanks for this. i'm a phleb/ekg monkey and 1st semester nursing school. i was wondering if i should stick with phleb or move into nursing assistant (easy to find if you're in school and past the 1st semester locally)

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Specializes in anesthesiology.
23 hours ago, harvestmoon said:

thanks for this. i'm a phleb/ekg monkey and 1st semester nursing school. i was wondering if i should stick with phleb or move into nursing assistant (easy to find if you're in school and past the 1st semester locally)

Get a job as an assistant in the unit you want to work in, and you're set

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Nursing assistant jobs give you alot of patient experieince and if you are good, you will most likely be offered a position as an RN after school. If you can get hired per diem instead of part time, the scheduling is much more flexible. My first semester of school I worked part time which meant I had to work 3 days a week; I made it but it was very difficult to juggle with school and kids. I switched to perdiem my second semester and my stress level has dropped tremendously.

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After doing some internet research, I discovered that my local hospital offers a summer work internship of sorts for students who have completed Fundamentals. It's essentially a pathway to an RN job b/c you do the internship then can work as a CNA (optional) then after graduation, a resident until you're a full-grown RN. I plan to apply to this! Thanks for all the responses ?

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