What's the easiest job you've ever had?

[cbcle]

Mine was postpartum. I couldn've believe that we got paid the same as ICU/ER nurses! Note: Easiest job and favorite job are not necessarily synonymous!

[Sun_danc3rRN]

dog groomer!

[joanna73, BSN, RN]

Working in a lingerie/ hosery store when I was a teen. Boring, too.

[iLOVEbees]

Easiest non-nursing job - night attendant in an assisted living home that had just opened and have almost no residents. I was there to help people but there were only a handful of them, they slept all night, and they almost never needed anything. I was expected to mop a group dining room floor and wipe down some tables. Honestly, I worked maybe 30 minutes out of an 8 hour shift and that was only because I took my time doing it.

Easiest nursing job - Fresh out of LVN school, I took a job at the nursing home I had worked at as a CNA. The night nurses there didn't do much except pass a few medications and respond to rare issues. Didn't pay well but it was pretty easy. I got bored and went into hospitals though.

[NurseLoveJoy88, ASN, RN]

Easiest job as a nurse have been working at a methadone clinic and giving flu shots.

[RNperdiem, RN]

Easiest job: Popping and selling popcorn at the movie theater. I was paid $3.25/hr.

Easiest nursing job: I haven't found it yet; let me know if one really exists.

[southern rn]

ask a nurse.office job, no uniforms, watched movies and surfed the net between calls.

[beckster_01, BSN, RN]

I worked at an ice cream shop in highschool. Get paid (or payed? ugh night shift...) while sneaking spoonfills of the best frozen custard in the city? Yes please :)

Nursing job? Nothing, although I was a night tech in an ICU in college. Not too bad since there wasn't much I COULD do with those patients except turn them and take their temperature...and EKG's. Vitals were automatic, everyone has centrals so no blood draws...most family questions were deferred to the nurse because I really couldn't answer them. So I studied and stocked...

[blondy2061h, MSN, RN]

Awhile back my hospital was overflowing with patients to the point where they put 4 inpatient beds in one of the clinics. This was a logistical nightmare during the day, but at night a boring, easy job. We would have to send 2 nurses there because no floor wanted to give up their aid. The patients were ones hand selected to be the most stable due to lack of support there. So max of 4 patients, two nurses. Good times. One time we only had one patient there and 2 nurses. We played cards.

[ChristineN, BSN, RN]

I wouldn't say any one nursing job has been "easy" but I have had some easy float assignments such as going to ER to take care of two med-surg pts awaiting beds, a 2:1 ratio on peds because there were only 5 pts on the whole floor, taking care of the PACU pt's being admitted (after their pain and n/v is controlled).

As a CNA I remember my easiest shift being sent down to dialysis because there was 1 RN in dialysis for 1 pt from my unit and he wanted a CNA there in case he needed another body to get help or something. I just sat there and read.

[Quickbeam, BSN, RN]

Most of my easy RN gigs took place long ago and far away...nothing is easy anymore....those easy jobs have been eliminated.

Easiest RN job was as a night supervisor for a 10 bed free standing physical rehab unit. No admits, no meds, an occasional midnight cath, left at 0700 after taping report and walked a mile home. Or rode my bike.

That building has been mowed down and the order of nuns who owned it now just a few retirees. I think of the job fondly when I drive past the place where it used to be.

[PMFB-RN, RN]

Easiest nursing job: I used to have a part time job in a very small (12 bed), very rural hospital ER. Whole night shifts would go by without a single patient coming in. Usually there were only two of us, an RN and a doc/PA/NP and the provider was always asleep in their call room. Every once in a while the manure would hit the fan, like when a man walked in holding his 12 year old daughter and his wife walked in behind him carrying the girl's arm that had been chopped off in a boating accident. Or the time when a local farmer was crushed by the head of a combine (large farming equipment) and his neighbors just threw him in the back of a truck and showed up at the ER. Those were the exceptions. About half of the shifts I never saw a patient. the other half we would have a couple easy cases in the evening and then nothing the rest of the night.

[Her Own Catalyst RN]

Easiest nursing job: Psych night nurse at a "well-off" hospital. Didn't accept anyone without a long round of medical clearance, and there were a minimum of 4 nurses for the 20-bed facility. Not to mention we RARELY got any chronic patients, mostly just the acutely depressed r/t job loss, marriage failure etc. Very sad but easy from a nursing perspective. Groups were all done during the day..