12 Hour Shifts With No Bedside Nursing?

RNsRWe, ASN, RN · Mar 3, 2012

Well, no. Those kinds of jobs revolve around business hours, so five days (and days, not eves) are the norm.

How many years experience do you have, and in what?

LynnLRN · Mar 3, 2012

The only job I can think of is an OR nurse, a different kind of bedside I guess. I know some Dr. Offices they aren't 3 12 hour shifts but a lot of them are like 4 10 hour days with like Wed. off, plus no weekends or holidays.

I thought all I ever wanted was 12 hr shifts then I switched to 8hrs (5 shifts 1 week and 4 the next week) and found I actually like it more. Even though I'm at work more days I actually feel like I have more off time because I'm able to actually do stuff when I get out of work and I'm not exhausted on my day off.

babyNP., APRN · Mar 3, 2012

Educator role, maybe? Our educators make their own schedules and do 12s so that they can catch the different shifts.

Got CPR? · Mar 3, 2012

How about House Supervisor? They work the same shifts as the floor nurses. Respond to codes or rapid response, take care of staffing, assign beds for admissions and handle anything urgent that comes up. They are an extra set of hands when one of the floors needs something such as a difficult IV start. Several of my friends are House Supervisors and really like it.

GitanoRN, BSN, MSN, RN · Mar 3, 2012

unquestionably, the first one that comes to mind is opc (out pt. clinic) urgent care etc.however, make sure you address the issue of only working 3 12hr. shifts during your interview. wishing you the very best in all of your future endeavors...aloha~

Marshall1 · Mar 3, 2012

Call nurses - for insurance companies - can work 12 hours triaging/giving phone advice. Kaiser is one insurance co. that employs phone nurses.

RNsRWe, ASN, RN · Mar 3, 2012

House super and educator might just be good choices...they do require a fair amount of experience, of course, given that they are the go-to people (and therefore can't be new themselves).

Might these be good options for you? Again, it would be helpful to know how much experience you have, and in what :)

RNsRWe, ASN, RN · Mar 3, 2012

---this is weird. Post showed up twice??

(ignore this one LOL)

nurseprnRN, BSN, RN · Mar 3, 2012

you could try for something like nurse life care planning, legal nurse consulting, case management, or other nontraditional jobs. my trouble c them is that i sometimes find myself working stretches of zero paid hours per week, and then stretches of six twelve-hour days in a row for weeks. if you can handle that kind of foolishness, check around for options outside traditional nursing jobs.

jonsey77 · Mar 5, 2012

Thanks to all for all the great suggestions! I am a brand new nurse fresh off the assembly line and I'm currently going through a new grad program at a hospital in California. But I do have my BSN as well as my public health nursing certificate so maybe I have a small chance (albeit slim) of attaining one of the positions mentioned in the above posts. I greatly respect bedside nursing, but at the same time I feel my strengths may be better suited in a different area. Thanks again to all who responded!

RNsRWe, ASN, RN · Mar 6, 2012

Ouch. No experience at all? I'm sorry, but all of the positions that were suggested to you require experience, and that's gained at the bedside. That's where clinical skills are honed, not in school. I know you don't want to stay at the bedside, but that is where you're going to need to be for awhile before ever being considered for education, supervision roles, as well as anything that requires strong assessment skills--again, school was a great start, but it's as a new bedside nurse that the real education begins.

Best of luck to you in gaining that experience so that you can find your niche eventually.