When you graduate, can you work part-time?

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I have always been attracted to nursing because of the flexibility. I have 5 children and want to work part-time when I graduate nursing school (I'm starting this fall.) Is it possible to work part-time right out of nursing school?

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Specializes in Cardiac Care.

Absolutely yes. There are tons of opportunities available to new grads, both full- and part-time.

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Look on all the employment websites and employer websites for job listings and you will find many that are part time positions. If you call or visit prospective employers, ask them if they have part time work available. I believe you will be surprised to find that you are more likely to find part time work than full time work. Good luck.

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Soon after graduating, I learned I had breast cancer. I still wanted to work but knew with chemo & such, fulltime would not work for me. I took a job that I love as a float nurse at a clinic working with around 20 providers. I work 2 days a week as a float & every other weekend in our convenient care clinic. Now that I'm done with chemo & my strength is retruning, I still want to continue with my part time job.

Dixie

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Specializes in Adult Acute Care Medicine.

At my hospital Ihad to do 32hrs per week for 6 months before reducing hours.

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Specializes in Telemetry/Med Surg.

I graduated in '06 and went right into a part-time position. There was one posted on the unit I wanted to work at so I applied and got the position.

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Specializes in Med/Surg, Tele.

It may depends on where you are. Here in my area ( Dallas TX), I am sure you can get a part time position straight out of nursing school, but if you are interested in a specialty area and want to do an internship, you usually have to sign a full time contract for 12 to 18 months.

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Specializes in Med-Surg, Trauma, Ortho, Neuro, Cardiac.

Here we require you to orient for three months full-time and then you can get a part-time position. This makes sense because it's hard to get an adequate new grad orientation part-time.

Good luck!

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Specializes in Telemetry/Med Surg.
Here we require you to orient for three months full-time and then you can get a part-time position. This makes sense because it's hard to get an adequate new grad orientation part-time.

Good luck!

That's true Tweets! I oriented full time as well.

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Thanks for the input.

This is going to sound like a stupid question, but how are shifts typically laid out? In a hospital? There are shifts 7-7, right?

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Specializes in Med/Surg, Tele.

Whatever they need at the moment. On my floor there are 7a to 7p, or 7p to 7a. And then there are 7a to 3p, 11a to 7p, 3p to 11p and 11p to 7a.

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