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Hello my fellow nurses. So I've worked as a new RN for almost 2 years now. I love the unit I work on and what I do, however, I have been working night shift and because our low staffing on nights, I work every 3rd weekend. The schedule itself has really taken it's toll. I might also add that we moved a year into working at my current hospital and have been committing about an hour for a year. I'll be honest, I know as a nurse we have great convinces like 3 12 hour shifts, 4 days off, etc, but I'm not so thrilled about working weekends all of the time and night shift is about to kick my butt in the sleeping department. I was offered a job in a clinic that is days only, no weekends, no nights, no holidays (ahh bliss) however, I would work 5 days a week. The clinic is still associated with the hospital I work for so everything transfers over, but I still have to commute. They are actually moving to 4 10 hour shifts in the fall (yay). So there are a lot of perks, but now I'd be comutting 5 days a week until we changed, loosing about 10 hours a week in commute time. People have told me clinic life is not as stressful, and while you lose your 4 days off, you don't work weekends or holidays or nights and have a normal work life. What are your thoughts on this? Are there any nurses out there that have gone through this and what did you think? Last edit by RN82013 on Jul 2, '14
Author: alice  3-07-2015, 08:51   Views: 551   
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