side gigs for OR nurses

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I'd like to make extra money, have any OR nurses found side gigs outside of the hospital? What are the options?

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Well, if you’re looking for work within the specialty and depending on how much OR experience you have, it might be pretty easy to get a per diem job at another facility in your area (either hospital or ASC). Agency nursing is also an option, if you’re willing to be pretty flexible with where you’re going and getting booked sometimes on pretty short notice.

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Most likely it would be best for you to pursue OT in the current hospital you are at, whether in the same department or elsewhere. If you go outside the hospital network any work you do is straight time, yet if you found additional work in the network you work at it would likely be time-and-a-half. Few side gigs pay anything close to what a shift or two of OT at your hospital would pay.

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