Need Help Picking My 'Forever' Job

[NotYourMamasRN]

Hi Fellow Nurses,

I am having a great deal of trouble deciding between two jobs and I wanted to see what you might do and why. To make a long story short I have been on a bit of a hospital hiatus for 1.5 years in a SNF. The setting is not something I desire to do long term and based on my future ambitions and goals, going back to the hospital setting is for me. I want a good paying job in good environment, and just to note I am a PRN Float Pool RN. I am not ready to go back to full time, enjoying being a mama right now.

My manager at my last job is welcoming me back and another local hospital has given me a prospect for a new job and facility. I wrote down the Pro's and Con's so I will list them below. Hospital A is the hospital I worked at before and Hospital B would be the new one. Any feedback would be much appreciated.

Hospital A:

Pros-

• 20 minute drive
  
• Base Pay significantly higher.... $6 before weekend and shift comps
  
• Regional presence, large corporation
  
• Promise of no ER orientation (No longer want to do ER, this was part of the reason I went on hiatus)
  
• 48 hr a month minimum
  
• Have scrubs already
  
• EMR is my favorite from all facilities
  
• Root Cause Analysis (I am a fan, note my MSN concentrates in healthcare policy)
  
• Lots of available shifts
  

Cons-

• Nights mostly needed right now
  
• Float all over hospital, no real home bases.
  
• Don't feel like I truly fit in all the time
  
• Critically low staffing & high turnover, lots of managers left
  
• No monitor techs in any department, Hx of Sentinel events
  
• Many unhappy former colleagues
  
• Low nurse say, nursing advocacy, or presence in policy happenings
  
• Pretty chaotic & stressful compared to other facilities
  
• Not the best community reputation
  
• Kind of dingy looking
  

Hospital B:

Pros-

• Can work mostly days, which means almost no traffic in a congested area
  
• I feel like I fit in well with staff, I personally know some and I have shadowed with them.
  
• I like the managers and leaders
  
• One floor PRN in my preference Med/Surg/Tele
  
• Local, private facility
  
• No ER floating
  
• Better staffing situations, though this is always fluid
  
• Lots of committees and shared governance involvement in hospital
  
• Monitor techs!!!
  
• Great recommendations from current and past employees
  
• Starbucks! Holler!!! Haha
  
• Nice looking, renovated facility
  
• Appears to be more nurse involvement in operations of facility as a whole
  
• Root Cause Analysis- Staff HIGHLY involved, the floor nurses were doing one when I was there
  
• Discount at my college
  

Cons-

• 40 minute commute over a bridge that often has accidents and traffic (Traffic not a problem if I work days, so much & no toll)
  
• Base pay is the lowest I have had in about 3.5 years before comps
  
• Private, so possible buyout looms in future for sustainability
  
• 1 shift required per week, so still 48 hours but required to work 1 shift every week. With their pay periods however, this would mean every other weekend (I can only work weekends).
  
• Need to buy new scrubs
  
• EMR is like comparing Facebook to Oregon Trail, ancient.