u/Choices_yikes

So basically last last Friday I had a interview for night shift inpatient rehab. Went extremely well and the manager and charge nurse seemed excited to have me (the manager was actually my coworker when she was the floor nurse at my current cna job) and then the following monday I shadowed for 2 hours. After the shadow the manager said that I will be hearing from the HR team soon and see you soon. 8 days later… nothing😭?(yes I checked my spam).

Luckily I was still interviewing other places and I just got done shadowing at dialysis and boom got a email within an hour with all the details etc. is it possible that’s there’s an issue with the hiring team causing them to delay sending me a email about the offer? Yes but it’s also possible that they ghosted me. But either way I find it quite unprofessional to have someone wait for a simple email about the further steps. So I decided to take the offer in dialysis instead.

Basically what I’m trynna say is don’t get too excited like me and tell everyone and post about it(I made a post on here last week about me getting a offer embarrassing LMAO) and most importantly KEEP ON APPLYING KEEP ON INTERVIEWING DONT wait on places until you officially signed paper works and all that😔😭.

Just accepted my first new grad job in a inpatient neuro/ortho rehab in Arizona! I decided to pick nights because I was offered $42/hr. Which is est ~$400 difference a month compared to if I work days(I can finally afford protein😭😭)

I never worked in healthcare during the nights(cna of almost 3 years). I was getting some insight on how night shift is and many of my workers talked about how miserable their life was on their days off.

I don’t really care about my social life since I prefer alone time and staying home. But I’m more concerned on the physical health part. I’m acne prone and my skin just recently cleared up, started losing weight again, taking care of myself for once by exercising. I def feel a huge difference in my energy levels and mental health. Now I’m getting worried that all of it is gonna go to waste if I work night shift:(.

Did anyone have any luck with night shift not totally rinsing a change in their daily life? Or did it def take extra effort to keep up?

So I just got offered two new grad positions in AZ and I really need help picking one!

Option 1- Outpatient Dialysis

Pros

-No Sundays, holidays, or night shift, 5-6 wks pto first year

-great on resume due to high critical thinking

-Very specialized field

-High chance of being able to relocate to different states or even countries as it is a global chain

Cons

- M/W/F with T/TS rotating schedule when one of my man reasons of doing nursing was to be able to have 8 days off without using PTO

-heard from other nurses that it’s best to start off on floor nursing as dialysis is very complicated

Option 2 trauma/neuro rehab

Pros

-I worked as a CNA at a similar rehab so I’m very familiar with the environment

-good place to learn time management and possibly easier to transfer to a acute hospital setting

-Basics of nursing for the most part

Cons

-Night shift

-7-8 patients

-Physically hard on your body despite good body mechanics

-nurses who worked at my rehab said you lose your nursing skills here

Pay is more at the rehab but of course I am working nights but the base pay is the same.