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Jun 14, 2008 12:16 PM

Do you get to drop working weekends after working for your hospital with seniority?


I'm curious how many hospitals allow staff nurses to drop working weekends after a certain amount of years.

At the hospital where I finally went per diem, after 15 years a nurse can drop down to working only one weekend a month. After 20 years a nurse can drop all weekend work obligations.

How is it where you work? I will include a poll with this post.

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from FireStarterRN
Old Jun 14, 2008, 12:24 PM

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Sorry about my typos, was too hasty in my post. There should at least be a comma after hospital in my title. And in choice 2, that's always, not alway.
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from racing-mom4
Old Jun 14, 2008, 04:35 PM

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I am one of the weekend workers. I get paid for 36 hours while working 24. I work Sat and Sunday 7p-7a. So I still feel like I get a weekend off, Friday night into Saturday 7pm.

It works for me and my family right now, and it works for the full time staff too, because they never have to work Sat/Sun night.
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from ricknick92
Old Jun 14, 2008, 04:40 PM

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I do not believ that in either of the hospitals I work will you ever get to drop weekends.
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from nightmare
Old Jun 14, 2008, 04:43 PM

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Moved to general nursing polls.
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from joannep
Old Jun 15, 2008, 02:57 AM

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Nope, Nah, Nadda, Never ever
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from Tweety
Old Jun 15, 2008, 07:26 AM

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Nope.

Sometimes though we have several people that want to work weekends only that some staff get the option of not working weekends. Right now two staff LPNs don't work weekends. But they know that at anytime time the manager can change that and institute policy.
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from traumaRUs
Old Jun 15, 2008, 07:35 AM

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Nope! Heck, I'm an APN and I STILL work weekends - one in every 4!
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from FireStarterRN
Old Jun 15, 2008, 10:05 AM

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I was interested in if you think that this is a good and fair thing to have in a nursing contract of not. Maybe I should start a separate thread for that.

I feel as if the contract at my hospital gives too much clout to people with seniority.
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from DaretoDreamRN
Old Jun 15, 2008, 10:22 AM

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Yes..at the new job i applied for, i was told that the "senior nurses" had the option of never working weekends.. ( seniority). I hope one day..ill get there...
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