Lack of hours

Lots of employers continue to advertise even though they have nurses on the books who don't have any hours at all and may not have had a case for months. You need to "politely" bug them on a regular basis or put in for unemployment. Nothing like the unemployment thorn in the side to get them to find some work for you. Work that wasn't there the week before. Good luck.

That's too bad because that is the best way to get their attention. Well, I'm having the same problem as are many others, I'm sure. It really does bother me a little that these agencies runs ads and hire new people when there are employees that don't get any work. You would think the employers would take care of those who have some seniority instead of always trying to add new faces. Good luck getting them to get something for you. You can always go to other agencies until you find one that places you on a case.

Yeah, working night shift in home health is great for school in the day time. You don't even have to work a full schedule, just enough to bring in some money. I used to (as much as I could) do homework and studying at night with clients that didn't care what I did at night as long as I took care of the patient. Good luck with MSMC.

There are people who plan to be unemployed but usually not nurses. My mom used to tell me to tell people what I did for a living when I was unemployed, was "I'm independently wealthy!" That has never worked as an explanation for lack of a job! People take one look at my lifestyle and figure out the truth.

Yeah. Sometimes you have to piece together a shift here and a shift there until you have a schedule that adds up to full time. Actually that is better than five days a week on the same case in one respect. If one of your cases ends, then you at least have the others until you can find a replacement. If you are full time on one case, if it ends, you are virtually unemployed until they get you another case(s).