Nurse Clinician vs. Floor Nurse

I currently work in critical care as a floor nurse, 4 patients to me and its BUSY and makes me nervous sometimes with the level of acuity and responsibility. Anyhow, I may have the opportunity to work as a Nurse Clinician in a pediatric urologist office. It's 8 hour shifts, not 12's, and its a day position...I currently work nights and am always exhausted. Considering my husband also works M-F from 7-330, he misses me and I miss him and my 4 kids in the evenings. WWYD?? I know the pay and benefits all play a role in my decision (which to be honest I have no idea what the salary is for a nurse clinician I even is) but do I want to leave the critical care nursing scene?! I fought so hard to get here, its a tough decision to make...any advice or ideas you can lend are much appreciated! Thanks!
You are taking everything in consideration family and money. You may want to find out how much the day shift job is willing to pay. I suppose they will take your experience in consideration. Going from a hospital setting to clinical setting there will be some money difference involved. Can you afford to take a pay cut? Will it affect you household? How your husband feel about it? Would you be able to adjust to the change? Keep us posted.

Ditto what the pp said. Also, have you considered becoming a clinical educator or switching to dayshift at your facility or another facility that does 3-12s.

Sounds like the 8 hour day shift would give you and your family a better quality of life and time together, working nights is hard if you can't adjust to it...you shouldn't have to live exhausted..good luck

If it were me, I would take the office job. Even for a bit of a pay cut. Those jobs don't come around often and your family time is important. You will get weekends off, holidays off. You will probably feel so much better working 8 hours shifts too.