r/nursing • u/OGQueenofUSA • Jun 20 '25

Nursing Hacks 29 shifts in a row

I have a job but I sometimes try to make extra money on the side,I saw a tiktok where a nurse was working 29 shifts in a row and at the end she had a extra $14,000, a friend just got a roommate, another friend picks up PRN shifts at another hospital instead of doing over time I'm wondering what are some cool ways you guys.

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u/PantsDownDontShoot ICU CCRN 🍕 Jun 20 '25

During Covid I routinely did 29 in a row. The money and the PTSD were fucking LIT. 😭

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u/Sea_Fox_3476 Jun 20 '25

Still ignoring the ptsd in my new home 😂

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u/PantsDownDontShoot ICU CCRN 🍕 Jun 21 '25

Push it down.

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u/renfield22 Jun 21 '25

So it can arise when your 65

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u/Informal-Poet-4248 Jun 21 '25

Can’t get PTSD on a jet ski

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u/kittenborn Nursing Student 🍕 Jun 21 '25

Blood pressure and gastritis who??? I never met her

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u/ShesASatellite RN - ICU 🍕 Jun 21 '25

Literally, and I don't hide it: "I got a home, a (fancy diesel engine car), and a lifetime of trauma from all those crisis shifts, please leave me alone so I have peace kthxbye."

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u/Cmdr-Artemisia DNP 🍕 Jun 21 '25

Paid for a wedding and a house down payment in cash, NY/NJ area. I still cry myself to sleep sometimes but the house is much nicer to cry in.

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u/Cam27022 EMT-P, RN BSN ER/OR/Endo Jun 21 '25

I did what I had to do for the same reason at the same time, but man I don’t think I could do it twice.

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u/Bamboomoose BSN, RN 🍕 Jun 21 '25

It’s become a mantra for me when I’m talking myself out of a panic attack now, you’re safe now and you will never have to do that again. I don’t know how we made it through the first timmeeee

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u/HeyCc1 RN - Med/Surg 🍕 Jun 22 '25

Would not do it again. My longest streak was 21 days in a row. On medsurg, 2nd wave Covid. My house is REALLY nice. My car is to. The PTSD is ass, but my therapist is great. I might be more mentally stable now than I was before? Because I’m still in therapy lol…