Why is it so hard to find part-time work?

[mclennan]

8 years experience, including HH, LTC, PHN and CM

BSN

Great references

Willing to take low wages

Flexible on schedule

Mobile (have car)

No restrictions on license

Board certified (2 ANCCs)

No need for benefits

And yet, I cannot get any contacts back from the FEW part-time/PRN positions I find. EVERYONE wants full time only. You'd think with how much these companies are tightening their belts & trying to spend as little as possible on staffing, they'd be advertising more part time jobs!

Whatever happened to job-sharing positions, which was touted in the 80s & 90s as the savior to working women everywhere?

I've tweaked and tweaked my resume, "dumbing it down," smarting it up, trimming and adding and fiddling with it in all manner of ways. I don't really want to work for an agency, either. I prefer to develop a relationship with a single setting over time.....but I'll go agency if I have to. HH is almost always an option but it's a tough gig in L.A. with all the traffic. Again I'm not ruling anything out. Just lamenting at the strangeness of the job market for someone like me.

I hear constant horror stories of understaffing and cost cutting from full time employed nurses. It makes me wonder why don't these hospitals explore hiring more part time nurses or PRN staff?

[caliotter3]

Now, finding people to fill out all these awful-words-I-can't-say-here reference forms... that's a little different. When did REFERENCES start taking people 30 minutes to fill out? I feel like I need to give sexual favors to my coworkers for even asking them to do all of that work for me. I just asked my latest preceptor and I'm going to have to ask her again...

I had a supervisor who refused to provide written references. She was willing to talk about me on the phone, because she could control the conversation, but she would put nothing in writing. Helpful, but not too helpful. I never refuse to provide a written reference for another.

[trinitymaster]

I feel like I need to give sexual favors to my coworkers for even asking them to do all of that work for me...

[dienw]

The nurses I know who work part-time started off as full-time and cut back their hours while staying at the same place. They were known quantities, not outsiders seeking part-time work as a new hire.

[TheCommuter, BSN, RN]

There comes a point where people need to be willing to show their displeasure with their feet and walk away from these dangerous jobs before a disaster happens that will no doubt be blamed on the "incompetent RN".

It is harder to vote with one's feet and simply walk away from employers that treat nurses badly when contending with the staggering student loan debt that came from funding an education received at Duke or Johns Hopkins. :)

[brillohead, ADN, RN]

Must be a regional thing..... there are all kinds of part-time PDN positions available in my area.

Good luck!

[KelRN215, BSN, RN]

Job sharing positions have gone by the wayside, at least in my area. Everywhere I've ever worked has offered benefits at 20 hrs/week. If you have 2 people working 20 hrs/week, that's 2 people you have to provide benefits for as opposed to just 1 full time employee working 40 hrs/week. That said, there is no shortage of per diem work in my part of the country, but it might not be the kind of per diem work you want. PDN is always hiring per diem, for example.

[Farawyn]

Meh, it doesn't matter. After all, flowers don't last, and there are never any vases, anyhow.

[sistrmoon, BSN, RN]

I've worked in a hospital part time for years, anything from 1-3 8 hour shifts a week. I was originally hired full time though.

[Guest03/15/15, BSN, RN]

From my experience, those who are working part time or on call were those nurses who once worked in our ER full time one time in the past or was on the float team who came to the ER.

In many moons, Ive yet to see our dept hire a PT or on call nurse that hadnt worked FT there.

[JMCP]

thats so weird. i know get random calls from registry and from hospitals wanting to hire me PD, lots of places I didn't ever apply to for part time and per diem work. before, when i wasn't working for a major hospital... not a peep! i had to beg to get interviewed.

[hppygr8ful, ASN, RN, EMT-I]

8 years experience, including HH, LTC, PHN and CM

BSN

Great references

Willing to take low wages

Flexible on schedule

Mobile (have car)

No restrictions on license

Board certified (2 ANCCs)

No need for benefits

And yet, I cannot get any contacts back from the FEW part-time/PRN positions I find. EVERYONE wants full time only. You'd think with how much these companies are tightening their belts & trying to spend as little as possible on staffing, they'd be advertising more part time jobs!

Whatever happened to job-sharing positions, which was touted in the 80s & 90s as the savior to working women everywhere?

I've tweaked and tweaked my resume, "dumbing it down," smarting it up, trimming and adding and fiddling with it in all manner of ways. I don't really want to work for an agency, either. I prefer to develop a relationship with a single setting over time.....but I'll go agency if I have to. HH is almost always an option but it's a tough gig in L.A. with all the traffic. Again I'm not ruling anything out. Just lamenting at the strangeness of the job market for someone like me.

I hear constant horror stories of understaffing and cost cutting from full time employed nurses. It makes me wonder why don't these hospitals explore hiring more part time nurses or PRN staff?

The company I work for is hiring and desperately short right now. I don't know where in the Los Angeles area your are but Check out Brookdale SR. Living San Dimas

[AnnieOaklyRN, BSN, RN, EMT-P]

You should come to the Northeast... lots of part time jobs everywhere!

Annie