Tech nursing in California

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I would like some information about working as a tech nurse while going to school. School starts in July, and is an accelerated course of one year. The teachers don't want students to working, but we really need the money.

Maybe one day a week will work. Was wondering if that was possible and what others have experienced.

Thanks so much for your time.

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I would like some information about working as a tech nurse while going to school. School starts in July, and is an accelerated course of one year. The teachers don't want students to working, but we really need the money.

Maybe one day a week will work. Was wondering if that was possible and what others have experienced.

Thanks so much for your time.

What is a Tech nurse?

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It is my understanding that a Tech Nurse is a student nurse that hospitals will usually hire after a student finishes their first semester in school. I may be wrong about this. Supposedly the hospitals try to work within the students hours off.

Does anyone know about this, or am I missinformed?:uhoh21:

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Specializes in CNA, RN Student.

I'm not sure about tech nursing, but over here they are called a Nurse apprentice. If you can find something that's once a week that's awesome, but if you are able to sacrifice for just one year, I say do it. If the school doesn't want you working, that's probably saying it's going to be a long, hard, haul that's going to require some sacrifice. Good luck!

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I work as what you might consider a tech. But they actually call it a student nurse assistant where I work. I would suggest you check at local hospitals, call the nurse recruiter. At the hospital I work at they do only hire RN students and you are doing an LVN? So I might ask specifically about that. But where I am, I make $12 an hour + night/weekend differential and am only required to work two 8 hour shifts per pay period (2 weeks). We had to be finished with fundamentals to be eligible and I basically work all over the hospital as a patient care assistant.

I can't speak to the accelerated program, because I started working there in the second year of a three year program. If I didn't have to work, I wouldn't. But I typically do 2-3 shifts a week.

Best of luck to you.

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Thanks for the good advice and wishes, Desert and Shock.

Sorry for the late response, but right now I work five 24 hour shifts as a care giver and have no access to the Internet.

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