overtime and evenings in peds?

[haitianrn]

Compared to other adult specialties, does Peds offer a nurse the opportunity to work lots of overtime, and also are evening shifts readily available? As a Nurse, I want to clock in some overtime and have my on evening shifts, so any info is appreciated.

[NotReady4PrimeTime, RN]

Your question is impossible to answer in a general sense. Where I work, yes, you'd have no problem with overtime. My unit created a stack of overtime slips 3/4 of an inch thick in a single pay period. Our rotation is 12 hour shifts, but when they're depserate they'll take whatever they can get, so we have people doing 7-3, 11-7, 3-7, 7-11, 3-11, 11-11 and pretty much anyother permutation of four hour blocks you coud imagine. But I can't speak for any other hospital.