Hospital staff/no weekends/holidays

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Has anyone ever been privileged to be hired as part of hospital as a staff nurse and be allowed not to have to work weekends or holidays due to the schedule of your child's child care facility? I know these working hours are virtually unheard of at a hospital for a staff nurse, but I know it has happened somewhere. So, who has experienced this or know someone who has? I know these hours are usually found in outpatient, but I'm very curious about hospitals. Thanks!

psh yeah right

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Specializes in private duty/home health, med/surg.

Nurse managers, case managers, WOCN nurses in my hospital are all weekdays only with no weekends, no holidays. NM do have to be available for any crisis on the unit 24/7 but they can usually manage whatever's going on over the phone.

None of these are new grad positions.

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Specializes in Dialysis.

I work in a small chronic dialysis clinic, our patients only run MWF, I haven't worked a weekend in the 4 years I've been here. We do have to work around holidays-if we take off on a holiday, we have to make it up. Patients must dialyze 3 times a week. I have paid my dues very well in 31 years as an RN, and 19 years in dialysis!

I think this girl and her manager are going to be eaten alive!

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Has anyone ever been privileged to be hired as part of hospital as a staff nurse and be allowed not to have to work weekends or holidays due to the schedule of your child's child care facility? I know these working hours are virtually unheard of at a hospital for a staff nurse, but I know it has happened somewhere. So, who has experienced this or know someone who has? I know these hours are usually found in outpatient, but I'm very curious about hospitals. Thanks!

Yeah, and the managers all fart roses, the hospital admins have rainbows shooting out of their butts, and you can have free parking for your unicorn on your M-F shifts.

Seriously?

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GrnTea,

Yes, the question was serious and I'm glad I received serious, mature, thought-out and professional answers from fellow nurses, as there were some replies that validated my curiosity.

The nursing profession is for curious individuals, and if you can't handle curious questions, then don't bother with the answer, especially if its going to involve sarcasm, which the SERIOUS nursing profession has no room for. Thank you for your response. In the future, you may elaborate on any of my curiosities only if LOVE accompanies, otherwise please keep it moving. Be blessed and Happy Nursing :-).

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I have a friend who works in a Step down ICU who works 12s M-W. Never has weekends, but does work holidays when they fall M-W. I work outpt and never work weekends or holidays.

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Yes GrnTea, there's no room for YOU in this profession! You are obviously not serious enough to be a nurse. Go away, you big impostor!!

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I float system-wide for four hospitals. I don't have to work weekends, holidays, or essentially any day I don't want to work, and I get a higher base rate, but I don't get benefits or PTO!

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I think our union contract states we HAVE to work every other weekend....so not only do you deal with hospital preferences you also must abide by union rules.

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Specializes in Med-Surg, NICU.
I'm in the OR, we work maybe one weekend on call every month and a rare holiday.. It's pretty infrequent. An actual weekend day may be once every few months. Not bad at all..

Not too many nurses start their career in the OR, though, and the vast majority of nursing jobs require some weekends and some holidays.

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Specializes in Emergency, Telemetry, Transplant.
The nursing profession is for curious individuals, and if you can't handle curious questions, then don't bother with the answer, especially if its going to involve sarcasm, which the SERIOUS nursing profession has no room for. Thank you for your response. In the future, you may elaborate on any of my curiosities only if LOVE accompanies, otherwise please keep it moving. Be blessed and Happy Nursing :-).

And, unfortunately the truth is going to hurt sometimes...however, that message needs to be delivered and it's not always going to be pretty.

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Specializes in Psych ICU, addictions.

You may find such a job in hospital management, but probably not as a permanent (non-PRN) inpatient floor nurse.

And certainly not because of your childcare schedule--I can guarantee that if they accommodated someone's childcare schedule to that degree, there would be howls--and rightfully so--by childless/childfree nurses who have the very valid argument that they have personal responsibilities that are just as important as children, and therefore they should be accommodated as well.

And I say this as the parent of two children, one of which is an infant.

No workplace would risk alienating a large portion of their workforce for the sake of one new employee. I think your friend is feeding you a line. Or isn't telling you something. Or is in for a very rude awakening.

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