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outpatient preop/pacu/OR nurse to float pool?

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Hi everyone.
I wanted to get some perspectives on making a change... I would like to do some agency work at some point down the road.... The last decade of my nursing career has been in outpatient preop, OR and recovery room...While most of my experiences have given me the ability to multi-task, and work in an efficient and fast paced environment, I feel that in order to travel or work local per diem, I need to get back into the hospital inpatient world.
I thought about maybe staying prn in outpatient recovery and then picking up some prn float pool at the hospital. Any thoughts? Would med surg/float pool be doable for someone with mostly outpatient experience?
I really like pacu but do not want to take a full time position which would require me to take call, nor do I want to work 5 days per week...
I don't know about your part of the country, but around here, hospitals are far more likely to bring in a travel nurse for OR (peri-op) than for MedSurg. But if you are looking to move into a more flexible schedule via float pool, you're definitely on the right track. It's impossible to make any conjectures about your chances of success as we can't know the particular circumstances at your hospital.
Author: peter  3-07-2015, 08:49   Views: 774   
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