Nurses Rock Toon
Published Nov 17, 2012
I love the holidays. Is there anyone here who doesn't?
Please share your most dreadful or most memorable holiday stories. ?
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PurpleLover
443 Posts
I dislike holidays. I am good about not ruining it for others though and participating in holiday themed festivities!
rn360_
13 Posts
I dread the Holidays because of staffing issues....every Nurse and CNA would like to be off at the same time, but we need staff to attend to patients! Would love to be able to give all the day off, but that is just not possible! Tried different rotations ect,ect....have not found the perfect solution yet! But I am determined to find it for 2014 Holiday Staffing/Rn daily grind! :)
PacoUSA, BSN, RN
3,445 Posts
I dread the Holidays because of staffing issues....every Nurse and CNA would like to be off at the same time but we need staff to attend to patients! Would love to be able to give all the day off, but that is just not possible! Tried different rotations ect,ect....have not found the perfect solution yet! But I am determined to find it for 2014 Holiday Staffing/Rn daily grind! :)[/quote'] Our facility does requests by seniority/rotation and seems to work well, then again, our turnover is kind of high so everyone has seniority at some point soon enough lol. Also, if one agrees to work an entire holiday stretch (Wed/Thurs/Fri) of Thanksgiving one is able to get Christmas Eve and Day off :) You just have to be strict with the scheduling rules and stick with them. Sent from my iPad using allnurses.com
Our facility does requests by seniority/rotation and seems to work well, then again, our turnover is kind of high so everyone has seniority at some point soon enough lol. Also, if one agrees to work an entire holiday stretch (Wed/Thurs/Fri) of Thanksgiving one is able to get Christmas Eve and Day off :) You just have to be strict with the scheduling rules and stick with them.
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