Full-time position in a long-term care facility working 7am-3pm 5 days weekly (or whichever hours suit you), working every other weekend as RN supervisor. Job duties would be scheduling and filling in for the social worker (an RN can work as a social worker, though a social worker can't work as an RN here). Filling in for the social worker would include keeping up with how many types of psychotropic meds are being used at the facility, doing social histories and writing Medicare summaries for social service notes. You would rarely to never be expected to push a medicine cart. Most of your time would be at a desk. Pay is not salaried but you are paid by the hour, and average income is $58,000 a year (in a rural area in the South.)
How many RNs do you feel would want to do something like this. A BSN would be even better. I'm just curious if this sounds like a sweet deal or not.
Here is the deal. I currently work in this facility. The management company frowns on RNs pushing med carts, and wants them "supervising." Due to this, I sit in an office most of the day looking on the internet and only get called to the floor if an LPN is having trouble inserting a catheter, or I need to assess a patient who has fallen, or I need to counsel a family member. I'm so bored (even though the boss claims I'm more than helpful to have around) so I went to a hospital and got a job on the med surg floor. I haven't worked there long but I absolutely love it. I'm kind of caught between the middle of these two jobs and the boss is really pressuring me to stay (to the point of telling me how he is really hurt by my leaving.) So, I was given this proposition if I would stay. The boss also tells me he will bend over backward and do tricks to help accomodate me through my NP schooling (I'm a NP student). He says he really cares about me and thinks very highly of me (no, it isn't a come on or anything romantic, he seems to have developed this brotherly/fatherly attachment to me. I honestly can't see what he thinks is so special). I think that most of it is that they have not had any RNs apply here, even after they have advertised. Anyway, while I love the hospital job it pays $19/hr compared to $28/hr at the job where they are begging me to stay.
The social worker part comes in here...our current social worker (an RN) is in her 70's and due to poor health is having to cut back her hours. The person who does the scheduling now doesn't want it anymore and wants to focus on wound care. So the boss has offered to give me the schedule and help the social worker.
On one hand, I am flattered the place wants to keep me, on the other, I resent wanting to be claimed because of the title I carry. Which is why I wonder, why wouldn't RNs be applying here?
I just left a job that was very similar to this. I HATED it. I did not go into nursing not to do nursing care so I left it to take the job I am now at in the ER.
I am a Supervisory RN in a LTC. I work 8 to 4:30 5 days a week and 1 weekend a month. I do the schedule for the nursing staff. I do not push a med cart. I do fill in for the LSw. I do the rehab. I fill in for the MDS nurses. I work every 4th holiday. I do all the assessment on residents that are Ill. contact the MD's. do the Doctors rounds. I love my job. and I made $60,000. this last year.
Specializes in LTC, Disease Management, smoking Cessati.
No med car pushing.... I have to say it sounds too good to be true, and that they want the RN to do the jobs of more than one person. I would be very careful you may find yourself biting off more than you intended to and choking on it. They will have you doing med passes if there are call offs, don't let them fool you. Been there!
Born2BWild
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Here is the deal. I currently work in this facility. The management company frowns on RNs pushing med carts, and wants them "supervising." Due to this, I sit in an office most of the day looking on the internet and only get called to the floor if an LPN is having trouble inserting a catheter, or I need to assess a patient who has fallen, or I need to counsel a family member. I'm so bored (even though the boss claims I'm more than helpful to have around) so I went to a hospital and got a job on the med surg floor. I haven't worked there long but I absolutely love it. I'm kind of caught between the middle of these two jobs and the boss is really pressuring me to stay (to the point of telling me how he is really hurt by my leaving.) So, I was given this proposition if I would stay. The boss also tells me he will bend over backward and do tricks to help accomodate me through my NP schooling (I'm a NP student). He says he really cares about me and thinks very highly of me (no, it isn't a come on or anything romantic, he seems to have developed this brotherly/fatherly attachment to me. I honestly can't see what he thinks is so special). I think that most of it is that they have not had any RNs apply here, even after they have advertised. Anyway, while I love the hospital job it pays $19/hr compared to $28/hr at the job where they are begging me to stay.
The social worker part comes in here...our current social worker (an RN) is in her 70's and due to poor health is having to cut back her hours. The person who does the scheduling now doesn't want it anymore and wants to focus on wound care. So the boss has offered to give me the schedule and help the social worker.
On one hand, I am flattered the place wants to keep me, on the other, I resent wanting to be claimed because of the title I carry. Which is why I wonder, why wouldn't RNs be applying here?