Do they let family members work in the same floor?

[Seas]

Hello all,

I am just wondering this. Do they let family members(both are nurse) work in the same floor/department in your hospital? Especially if English is their second language? There is no issue or story to tell. It is just a question I wonder.

[Ruby Vee, BSN]

i've worked in the same icu with my husband in three hospitals. our unit also has sisters, brothers and another couple.

[loriangel14, RN]

My sister and I float to each others floors all the time.I love working with my sister. When I first started out we worked on the same floor all the time.

[CapeCodMermaid, RN]

I think nepotism is when you hire your OWN family, not two members of a different family. In small communities it's not all that uncommon. I've never found it to be problematic. The real issues arise when the nurse takes care of her own family member as a patient.

[Altra, BSN, RN]

Thank you, Esme, for acknowledging a pet peeve of mine ... the mysterious "they".

OP, I'm not sure why it matters what the policies may be where each of us works ... the only thing that matters in this situation is the policy in the hospital where these 2 family members wish to be employed.

[thatone]

The only rule at my hospital is that one can't be in any kind of supervisory role to the other. That would include one being a nurse and the other a CNA or one being an RN and the other an LPN. If one is a secretary and one is a CNA, that's perfectly acceptable as would be two RNs provided one wasn't the charge nurse. Even if they work different days/shifts, their roles are what determine if it is allowed or not.

I can only think of one time where it was an issue and that's because they didn't tell anyone they were related until after they were working on the same unit for several months. The daughter bragged about a nice raise after a glowing evaluation and people questioned where the manager got her info because her performance wasn't that strong. Turns out the coordinator/right hand to the manager was her mom. Someone complained to upper management and not only did the manager get in trouble, both Mom and daughter were out jobs.

[JBudd, MSN]

Our community is so small that not allowing kinfolk would be disastrous. My ED has a brother & sister (tech and scy), one married couple who are travelers, at least one couple who are staff. Several nurses and doctors couples, but not necessarily both in ED. One couple who are both MDs.

Hasn't been a problem that I can see. Only once in the past did the hubby bother me for not giving report fast enough so his wife could leave; but that wasn't usual.

[Seas]

Thank you for the replies! I will ask and find out about my hospital tomorrow.

By the way, we have MD's in my place who are brothers, sons, father etc. But I haven't seen any relatives nurses, CNA's at the same department. So, that may not be allowed, I don't know.

[Do-over, ASN, RN]

Not in the same department here. Apparently, one is not supposed to float to a department where a family member works, either.

Beyond that, we have a lot of family members that work here - only hospital in the county...

[beckster_01, BSN, RN]

There are no hospital-wide policies where I work that I am aware of. A new nurse on my floor was a tech in the PICU where his sister works before he graduated. I am also aware of a boyfriend/girlfriend who worked across the hall in the ICU. The girlfriend actually came to our floor after she graduated nursing school, and they almost hired her boyfriend as our nurse leader shortly after. He was a great candidate for the job, and almost got it. But he was passed over partly because he would be a direct supervisor to his girlfriend, but mostly because his competition for the job had already been a nurse manager/department head at two other hospitals and was much more qualified.

[GooeyRN, ADN, BSN, CNA, LPN, RN]

I work with my mom. We are both rn's. There are several other mother daughter pairs too. It works great especially when covering empty shifts. Therearentas many short shifts IMO when family tries to help cover each others vacation days. I love working alongside my mom and so do the other pairs. We are not union. We both speak English only.

[Seas]

Thanks again for the replies. I found out today that, my hospital policy doesn't let immediate family members to work at the same department.

[midnightmadness]

I worked for 5 months at the same hospital my mom did and I was never allowed to work on the same unit that she worked on. Not that that bothered me much...oh you need someone floated to 1 East sorry mom's working so I can't :)