I miss patients

[SuesquatchRN, BSN, RN]

I don't miss the nonsense of the flooor, but I miss hands-on nursing.

I want to find a couple of days a month to keep up my clinical skills but don't know where. My facility, which is perpetually short-handed, is unwilling to pay me overtime which, since I am an employee in another dept, they'd have to do.

*sigh*

[CHATSDALE]

is there an agency that you could tap in on

maybe there is another facilty that you could sign on as PRN

you are right to want to keep skills up to date things change in nursing so quickly

[SuesquatchRN, BSN, RN]

It's hard, chatsdale. I'm 50 miles from everywhere. But yeah, that might be the route.

:)

[P_RN, ADN, RN]

Back in the olden days I picked up a few dollars a week riding along with home health nurses on a per visit basis. This was a private/public kind of agency in that it was incorporated in itself rather than the hospital. I really got tired of paying two states licenses (before compact of course) so I only did it a short while. It was an easy job though.

It usually ended up being about4 visits a week mainly to patients who needed turning for wound care, or for visits that were a long distance drive for the one nurse alone. If they'd paid ME mileage for those.... wow it would have been great.