I need some help with a decision......

[jschut, BSN, RN]

Ok. Here's my delimma.

I am returning to school in January. Will be needing to change my work schedule to accommodate my school semesters.

Choices of places of employment are:

#1~ LTCF where I have been for 2 years. Work 7p-7a. Have a certain amout of seniority and have insurance (Which sucks...:chuckle)DON and ADON are quitting beginning of next month. Have no idea if new DON will work with my need to schedule change. I know all the residents and they like me and I like them. Get a raise every year. Right now, I am at $14.50 per hour.

#2~ LTCF that has a weekend option open. Work from 6p-6a, two maybe three nights a week and make $15.11 an hour. Insurance costs much more, but would have a set schedule so I wouldn't have to worry about someone getting a hair stuck crossways in their backside cause I am making them change schedules. I know no one there. Have heard it's more professionally run than where I am now. (But are any of them, really?)

What would you all do? I just need to make sure I have enough time for study and schoolwork.....and need to make enought o keep our heads above water for 3.5 years!:stone

[passing thru]

It seems, in this equation, that you can cancel out the salaries and insurance costs. That is, the raise in pay will disappear with the increased insurance costs.

You will probably like the residents in the other Long Term Facility as much as you like the ones here. Especially over a two year period, remember you have known these two years...

so, this issue should be cancelled from the equation also.

Which leaves you with a new manager to cope with at the current place....an unknown in the equation.

I'd probably stay put.

First of all, it is less stressful. You ae taking on enough stress with the return to school, classes, instructors, studying, deadlines, adjusting schedules at home to fit with school schedules, etc., etc., ad infinitum.

Secondly, a new manager will usually try to come in and get along with everyone. She/he will try to please and make a good impression.

So, I would get in there the first week, (not the first two days) and make a very favorable, positive, team-player , "glad to meetcha " impression. I'd let her know I'd been there two years, am returning to school ...........and the previous manager had said "there's no problem with adjusting my schedule", (when I first started discussing it with her last summer)... etc/ and ask if she anticipates any problems with having a student working there?

And, I'd ask is my flexible schedule a cause of concern for her.?or, "do you anticipate any problems with _____?"

Most managers will respond , no, no problem....

Leave out the part about cross-hairs.

You can't get a definitive reply at this point because you don't even have your schedule.

This meeting is simply and for the sole purpose of making a GOOD IMPRESSION.

yOU DON'T WANT TO BELABOR THE WORKING AND GOING TO school point....

She is new on the job, and you don't want to come across as a pain in the orifice for the next 3.5 years.....

But, I'd stay put and see how it goes. If anyone gets the proverbial hair outa joint, .

well, as long as you get the shifts you want....

let 'em get outa joint....