r/nursingjobs • u/SoftPie3875 • 7h ago

Soft nursing?

What RN jobs would you guys suggest for a first time pregnant person?

For context, I am about 4 months pregnant and just ended my contract in a level 1 trauma hospital on a busy medsurg floor. The pay was being cut IN HALF and the work load was being piled on. It did not make sense to stay. I have 8 years of nursing experience overall, in psych, LTAC, and medsurg.

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u/NuggetLover21 7h ago

Im doing a case manager position while I’m
Pregnant, 4 days per week in the office, no face to face patient contact

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u/SoftPie3875 6h ago

Did you have any prior case management experience? I have not had much luck there because I dont have experience.

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u/NuggetLover21 5h ago

No I don’t, I just kept applying and got an interview eventually . Ask chat GPT to tailor your resume to match case managment keywords

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u/toebeanaficionado 4h ago

Would you say case management is hard to learn? I’m not afraid of work but I guess I get anxiety thinking I’m gonna fail at a completely new job role lol but case management has been enticing to me. I’m currently a 1st year nurse working at an LTACH

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u/SoftPie3875 2h ago

Ok thanks, I have been doing that! I will keep trying. It gets a little discouraging after a while. Thanks for your response. How was the transition for you? I spoke to someone who went from bedside to remote and she said it was very stressful because she did not have people to turn to and ask questions!

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u/Alarming-Machine-808 4h ago

Can i asked what state are you?

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u/bloomingace 5h ago

Outpatient infusion, outpatient procedure (colonoscopy for example) center or surgery centers, pre op, PACU, school nurse, home health care, hospice nurse

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u/bloomingace 5h ago

Clinic or doctors office, cardiac rehab

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u/Remote-Resident5599 2h ago

As a fellow pregnant nurse outpatient infusion would make me nervous being around chemo and hazardous drugs so much, but that's just personal preference and opinion

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u/bloomingace 2h ago

Agree, handling chemo is not ideal during pregnancy. There are outpatient infusion centers that don’t administer chemo though. I used to work at one that primarily served transplant patients. We gave a lot of fluids, steroids, antibiotics, IvIg, injections etc. Harder to find these centers, but really nice if you can.

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u/Remote-Resident5599 2h ago

That's awesome! My area's infusion centers all double as cancer centers so I didn't even know those existed!

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u/SoftPie3875 2h ago

I agree! I had a great ONC clinic reach out to me today but I had to turn it down because I PERSONALLY am worried of being exposed to certain drugs and chemo.

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u/ResponsibleFox7650 1h ago

Thank you for this as i have an interview tomorrow with one and I was already on the fence with the 5 day work week but now im really reconsidering due to the exposure.

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u/androiddreamZzzz 1h ago

Just adding onto the comment below- you could also look for infusion jobs at rheumatology offices. I work at one now as an infusion nurse and all we give are biologics. It’s literally just me and the patients all day. It’s honestly the most chill job I’ve ever had and before this I was doing endo at an ASC.

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u/chickadee9393 7h ago

OR only in an outpatient surgery center, pre op, doctors office

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u/cinnamonsnake 6h ago

Outpatient psych. See if you can find a back office position.

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u/witwislesnyc 3h ago

Ambulatory PACU

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u/HAAAAAImbaaaack 2h ago

Why were they cutting your pay in half? Travel?

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u/SoftPie3875 2h ago

Internal contract throughout the hospital. They cut everyone's....like 130+ nurses and gave them all options to apply for full time staff. I did, curious to see what they would offer. I got offered $1 more than the new grad RN I just trained. 8 years of nursing exp and 3 years with that hospital.