Three Job Offers in totally different medical settings- which one do I take?!

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I am a newly licensed nurse (Feb 2015) and currently I work at a Convalescent Home. I just started in May 2015. I only just ended orientation, worked my first shifts alone, and I love it. However, they only put me on schedule for one day a week in June. So, needing a full time job, I went to interviews. This week I was offered a position as an office manager/supervisory LVN overlooking the medical assistants at a non-profit community clinic in Los Angeles, with a mediocre pay rate, medical, dental, vision and 401k. But I must work Monday-Friday 9am-6pm and some Saturdays. They want me to start June 1, Monday, but I have to work at my other job that day. They won't budge on letting me work Tuesday-Saturday for just the month of June. The clinic says I must quit my other job. First, the schedule for the Home was made a month in advance. Second, I found it a bit pushy that the clinic told me to quit. The only reason I would take the clinic job would be for stability, benefits, and the fact that it's a non-profit, but I really hate working 9-5 jobs...

If I don't take the clinic job, I do have a home health hospice job doing continuous, triage, and on-call positions to fall back on.

Do I take the non-profit federal job or stick with the position I like doing? What would you do?? HELP!!

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I wouldnt take a supervisory position as a new nurse, they must be desperate to hire a new nurse to supervise or manage anyone yet, i would take that as a red flag and keep it moving, try talking to your current employer about increasing your hours or give the hospice position a try

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That's true.. about the red flags. I didn't think of it that way, just thought of it as a good opportunity for myself because it's federally backed and a non-profit company.. But to be honest, my initial intuition told me to stay away from this job in the first place. Thank you for your input. And just today, I applied to a sub-acute snf facility and they called me right away for an interview! If you don't mind me asking, what field of nursing are you in?

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im still in school, but i really would love to work with pediatric home care, its partly the reason I decided to become a nurse, but I learn alot through this blog because i dont want to jeopardize my license when im finished

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Hi! I just would like to advice to any nurse especially new grads. In California please > Do not accept low mediocre rate payment. I can see that looking for employment is hard but not impossible. Back in 2012 the Prison's rate was $25.00/hr minimum "under contract" today, I sadly see that "agencies" are offering the mediocre rates ranging from $17.00hr to $21.50/hr that's ridiculous this is California! and working in a correctional facility isn't nice at all because many reasons that I won't go over. I've been there. Please again even as new grads you should not accept less than $20.00 hr in other areas of patient care but if you urgently need the job, then negotiate your expectations in the short run. If you really want to work in a correctional facility demand at leas $25.00 hr or just do not accept the job. Companies are abusing because there are too many nurses out there, and unfortunately competing with each other for the same job, consequently; the rates are falling down not only affecting the new grads but to the experienced nurse as well. Remember, you now are nurses and carry a big responsibility in caring for patients and your license it's going to be in tremendous amounts of liability depending where your going to work too, and that's where the pay rate is justified. People who makes car oil changes can get paid $14-$17.00 /hr but licensed nurses should not. Of course I am talking about LVN s/LPNs for those who are RN that's another story get your BSN and get experience out of California there are not jobs.

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