PLEASE HELP!!!!!!! I have been hired for 2 FT jobs.

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I have been hired for 2 FT jobs. One with aetna as a UM nurse and the other with Walter Reed Military Hospital. Both jobs pay the same amount. Aetna's hours are Mon-Fri 830-5p. Walter Reed is 7-7. I have the choice of days or nights. I don't have my schedule just yet but I'll be able to chose what days I want to work. Am I crazy to want and try to work both? Neither job has OT, both come with benefits although I don't need them since I'm under my husband. Both are the same commute time, 15-30 min depending in traffic. I would want to work nights at Walter reed but am open to days. HELP!!!!!!

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Take the Aetna job. Trust me, after 18 years of working in hospitals I would love to work for an insurance company. Floor nursing is hard and getting harder. Patients, families, doctors and administrators all treat nurses horribly, of course, not all but many do. And when something goes wrong it is always the nurse's fault. Take the Aetna job. When the BNE sends me that quarterly report of about 10 pages, it seems like 6 pages is nothing more than nurses who have lost their license or have stipulations put on their license. I would be willing to bet that the majority of those nurses if not all are hospital floor nurses.

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I don't see how you could do both FT, but perhaps do one FT and one PT if they have a position to do so. Congrats on the offers!!!

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If money is no subject try the insurance co. The military hospital would allow you to work an extra shift with overtime at another institute without feeling like all you do is work, but your husband may not like the fact that you are gone overnight...

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Specializes in Nurse Leader specializing in Labor & Delivery.

The Aetna job will limit you with future employment more than the hospital job would. It would not be possible two work both, due to the hours.

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Specializes in Pediatrics, Emergency, Trauma.

What do YOU want to do???

If you want to work hard, learn and work with Veterans, a VERY special population with complex care; yet you are going to learn A LOT, then by all means, take the job at Walter Reed.

If you want to work hard, learn and work hard, assessing patients, and making decisions, sometimes making a decision whether or not a patient will qualify for acceptable treatments and modalities, then go for the Aetna job.

FYI: Walter Reed is a HOSPITAL; if you want to work in a hospital, work there.

I've done insurance and worked in specialty hospitals an skilled nursing... Insurance will give a REAL eye opener on how our responsibility to document "pays" us...and sometimes I had to recall or downgrade reimbursement for lack of or documentation; I was not fond of the job; however I learned another aspect of where nurses are important and PRICELESS in this business. It's helping me at my current job.

I quit that job to go back to skilled nursing. :)

Both provide gateways into a great niches in nursing...it will be up to YOU...but I prefer skilled nursing, because I'm hands-on, know how to deal with complex patients an families, and like it.

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I really want to work at Walter Reed. I don't have any hospital experience so this is a great opportunity for me and I'm former military so I'd be around my military family again. Aetna would be strictly for the money....sad to say. I know I'd learn the insurance part. I'm not interested in the job at all. If Walter Reed allowed for overtime, I'd just stick w/that. Nights work better for the family so my hubby is ok with it. I love hearing all your responses. It's nice to have a place to go to help you "talk" or bounce around ideas with other nurses.

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I really want to work at Walter Reed. I don't have any hospital experience so this is a great opportunity for me and I'm former military so I'd be around my military family again. Aetna would be strictly for the money....sad to say. I know I'd learn the insurance part. I'm not interested in the job at all. If Walter Reed allowed for overtime I'd just stick w/that. Nights work better for the family so my hubby is ok with it. I love hearing all your responses. It's nice to have a place to go to help you "talk" or bounce around ideas with other nurses.[/quote']

Then GO FOR IT...it will be challenging...but you will not regret it...

One thing I maintain as a nurse is MY EXPECTATIONS for ME in my day to day life, and practice...this attitude has helped provide me with a thick skin, not burn out, and deal with many complex and hairy situations, and a few minefields working in this business.

Always remember to put your best foot and intentions forward; learn, utilize those pieces of therapeutic communication for your peers as well as your patients...use your nursing process in every situation if you need to cope with whatever comes your way; even if you need self care....DON'T EVER for get to provide self care.

Congrats on getting your job offers, and making the best decision for YOU. :)

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Where you want to work is completely up to you based on your preferences. Hospital floor nursing is becoming crazier by the day, personally I would accept the AETNA position. I value my license and feel you have much more security when it comes to keeping it when you are NOT a hospital floor nurse. :yes:

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I quit a job working UM for an insurance company because I got sick of telling pts. they couldn't have surgeries/procedures, that we weren't going to pay for that last day of their hospitalization, etc. I wound up getting an ED job about a month later. Working for the insurance company was one of the blackest times in my career. It's all about the $$ an not the pt. (Not that hospital nursing can't be that way.)

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That's a good point. It would kill me to have to tell patients try can't or won't be approved for something. I think I would really miss direct patient care too.

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Where you want to work is completely up to you based on your preferences. Hospital floor nursing is becoming crazier by the day personally I would accept the AETNA position. I value my license and feel you have much more security when it comes to keeping it when you are NOT a hospital floor nurse. :yes:[/quote']

See how you value your license when you are the one that has to tell pt's that their insurance is not going to cover a procedure, or this isn't covered, etc...however, if that is something you plan to discover, not knocking it...it's not for me, and they are NOT without issues...:no: if you feel jaded now from nursing, NOTHING compares to getting one jaded than working at an insurance company IMO...depending on the person...

I didn't get into nursing for the bottom line and refusing care for individuals, especially if they are the most vulnerable population-the elderly, or medically fragile children. I got into nursing to empower individuals for living to their maximum potential, DESPITE their challenges. It felt as though going through chart reviews and picking line by line, if something was missed to deny the claim altogether ...ugh!!! I was preventing them from having that chance.

I'd take direct patient care ANY day than insurance...unless it was the nurse hotline or coaching; but then I would miss that in person human contact, but that's me. :)

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