PRN job while Active Duty?

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Specializes in Critical Care.

From what I've read most RN's on active duty work 3 days one week, 4 days the next, all 12 hour shifts. Does this mean it is possible to get a PRN job in a civilian hospital to work on your days off and when youre not on call? Or would this be forbidden by the military?

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Specializes in Anesthesia.
From what I've read most RN's on active duty work 3 days one week, 4 days the next, all 12 hour shifts. Does this mean it is possible to get a PRN job in a civilian hospital to work on your days off and when youre not on call? Or would this be forbidden by the military?

It is not forbidden. It can be hard to work part-time sometimes d/t your military obligations, but there are many AD nurses that work prn on a regular basis.

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Specializes in Critical Care.

awesome thanks man. Are you active duty? I noticed you were a crna - did you start out as a bedside RN in the military or did you have your CRNA done prior to commissioning?

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I knew an active duty nursing student who worked at KFC and made no attempt to hide the fact although everyone had been led to believe it was not permissible.

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Specializes in Anesthesia.
awesome thanks man. Are you active duty? I noticed you were a crna - did you start out as a bedside RN in the military or did you have your CRNA done prior to commissioning?

I started out in the AF as an ICU nurse. I went to USUHS for my CRNA. USUHS is where all the Navy nurse anesthesia students go now, and I did the majority of my clinicals at NNMC Bethesda.

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Specializes in EMS, ED, Trauma, CEN, CPEN, TCRN.
From what I've read most RN's on active duty work 3 days one week, 4 days the next, all 12 hour shifts. Does this mean it is possible to get a PRN job in a civilian hospital to work on your days off and when youre not on call? Or would this be forbidden by the military?

We have to get permission from our chain of command. I will even have to get permission to resume my (non-paid, volunteer) paramedic activities. The medical company at my hospital has a pretty strict policy about moonlighting (i.e., don't do it without permission!!).

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Specializes in critical care: trauma/oncology/burns.

I agree with Lunah: It all depends upon your Hospital Commander.

I must get permission and I cannot work > 16 hours in a two week period. {this is the Army btw}

By the time I finish all my "volun-told" obligations, I am too tuckered out to even think about working a part-time job.

Oh, you are "on-call" 24/7 by-the-by.....

Good luck to you,

athena

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