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Hi, I am a nursing student and I have been looking into nursing jobs. Recently I noticed a lot of home health and operating room jobs that were M-F. Is this common? Don't people need home nurses and operations on the weekends?

The other thing I was wondering is if its difficult to get a M-F job. When there is an opening say, at a clinic, is there fierce competition? Thanks for any information!

Specializes in School Nursing.

School Nursing = great hours, bad pay. It all depends on what you need and what part of your life you are in.

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I work M-F but I am a unit manager and ADON at a nursing home. I have been here for six years. Before that I was a MDS nurse but had been here 4 years before I took that job too. Not a lot of nursing jobs are M-F.

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Oh sure, those jobs exist, but as someone said, there are some required weekends, and on call, plus they are as short as anywhere else, so you may find yourself taking on extra weekends because there is no one else.

I trained for the OR, found out that because it was day shift, M-F and no charge, I made about 2/3 of what I could earn working rotating shifts in my rural hospital position, with WAY less stress and a more pleasant working environment.

Because we are unionized, the base pay and increments are the same, but the shift diff and charge pay are substancial incentives to work in the off hours. Also, clinic work used to pay less ($18-20 as compared to $30-$40 in hospital) but I've heard that recently changed and they are now paid union wages.

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Specializes in ICU, Cardiology, Mother/Baby, LTC.

I am just giving up a M-F 3rd shift job. I only had one day off, really, because Saturday was my "sleep" day. So, it wasn't worth it, but this type job should be easy to hire into. Who the heck would want it?!:heartbeat:heartbeat:heartbeat

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Specializes in Med Surg, Tele, PH, CM.

The problem with the M-F jobs is that most of them require at least a little bedside nursing experience and will not hire new grads. I worked for 10 years in hospital nursing because my husband was in the military and a lot of places will not hire you for the M-F jobs unless they think you're going to stay for a while. As soon as we "settled down", I left the hospital and didn't look back. I went to Public Health, then Case Management. No one pays like the hospitals, but you have evenings, weekends and holidays, and a lot less stress. Do the time and get it over with, you don't have to stay there forever.

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I dunno - the surgery centers near me have hired new grads, pay more than the hospitals, have good bene's and a friend of mine got a large bonus within a few months of first working there AND they took a trip each year to Reno, all expenses paid.

No call. No weekends. No holidays. No union. These are the surgery centers owned by the docs.

Those jobs DO exist. Not everywhere I guess. But definitely around here.

steph

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