Idea's for weekend work for lpn?

Private duty pediatric home health. Many agencies are desperate for qualified nurses seeking to work weekends.

I want to work weekends only if I can while I go back to RN school, any ideas about where to work for weekends only, and maybe a few prn hours?

Private duty and intermittent visiting nursing as well :)

LTC, Jails/Prisons, PDN, or "walk in clinics". All need staffing on weekends.

Everywhere but admin and the hospital.

Doubles in LTC/SNF are hard to fill but ppl generally stay rooted. Thats why pulling PRN on weekends may not be feasible.

HH has flexible shift work.

The Commuter: Do you feel 16 hour shifts are safe? How did you make it through such a long shift? I am glad to hear it can be done. I am a mother doing pre reqs and i'm excited to soon be in a nursing program.

I would really not attempt to jam in a full time workweek on the weekend while in nursing school unless you have absolutely no other choice. You're right - 16 hour shifts, especially back-to-back where you're not getting adequate sleep in between, are often not particularly safe. Also, you will want/need some time for seeing your child, studying, and general sanity. You can work one or two normal shifts - no reason to do doubles unless you need to be full-time.

There might also be another solution, such as working a few short shifts during the week in addition to normal shifts on the weekend instead of trying to work extra-long on the weekend.

Keep in mind that schools generally recommend not working more than 20 hours a week (or less) during school. Some don't allow it. Also, check on your school's clinical schedule before committing to a schedule. I had Saturday clinicals through most of nursing school. Mondays were the only assured day off.

Everywhere but admin and the hospital.

Doubles in LTC/SNF are hard to fill but ppl generally stay rooted. Thats why pulling PRN on weekends may not be feasible.

HH has flexible shift work.

Actually, I worked 7a-7pm in the hospital q weekend when I was in school for my RN. Several LPNs did it this way.

The Commuter: Do you feel 16 hour shifts are safe? How did you make it through such a long shift? I am glad to hear it can be done. I am a mother doing pre reqs and i'm excited to soon be in a nursing program.

Might not be feasible as a parent, but I can assure you that working 16 hours is safe to work. A lot of us currently do it or have done it in our younger years. Only shift I don't see it being okay is 2300-0700 then 0700-1500.

LTC, Jails/Prisons, PDN, or "walk in clinics". All need staffing on weekends.

Exactly. Even if you're only available on the weekend, there's a good market for jobs. A lot of the time we are filling our LPN spots with a RN on the weekend.

During the entire time I attended an LPN-to-RN bridge program, I worked full-time 16-hour weekend double shifts at a local nursing home as an LVN. I worked every Saturday and Sunday from 6:00am to 10:00pm.

A place I used to work, LTC, also offered this. They called it the weekend program. You would either do 7-3, 3-11 or 3-11, 11-7 Saturday and Sunday and it counted as full time. I don't think they allowed 11-7, 7-3 - and I agree with NOADLS, night into day is a scary proposition. Even routinely working 11-7 I wouldn't feel safe on the floor past about 11:00.

I still think 16 hour shifts are not particularly safe, especially considering it's probably actually 16.5 hours actually on the job, plus commuting time home unless you live a stone's-throw away, and all that. Realistically, you'll probably be lucky to get 6 hours of sleep in between shifts.

This doesn't mean everyone who does them is unsafe, or that other options might not be more unsafe. I've done 16 hour shifts, as the alternative would be to leave the floor short-staffed. And I end up working on well less than 8 hours of sleep even more often - the joys of being an insomniac with a one year old.

But if OP is questioning the safety, it may be an indication that, for her, it wouldn't be safe to do on a routine basis.

So I guess a better response is that there's no blanket answer to the question of safety. It's going to depend on your personal sleep needs, commute time, and so forth.