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Couples in nursing

Hi, I had a question about contracts for jobs. My fiance and I will graduate an RN program in May and plan to work at the same hospital, crossing our fingers. I think I read on here that you can write into your contract that a couple can have the same days off? Has anyone had experience with this? We don't plan on working the same floor if that helps. We just like to be together and if we had the same days off it would be great.

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    Do the hospitals in your area typically offer employment contracts? Most don't unless a traveller or agency nurse. I've never seen a contract, with the exception of 13 week travel nurse contract that specified days off. Even then the days were not guaranteed depending on staffing & patient census. Especially in a hospital where schedules are based upon census, new employees usually don't get much choice in days off or vacation/PTO requests.

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    Beachy is correct. In addition, many organizations have strict rules concerning employment of family members which prohibits them from working in the same departments and certainly never in a supervisor/subordinate role.

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    One hospital will not hire married/engaged couples on same shift OR department due to past issues.

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    Ok I didn't realize that hospitals don't do contracts. I had read something about it on another thread so the couple must have been travel nurses. Thanks for the help.

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    Ok I didn't realize that hospitals don't do contracts. I had read something about it on another thread so the couple must have been travel nurses. Thanks for the help.

    There was a recent thread that discussed a couple that are highly specialized travel nurses (critical care I believe) and thus have the ability to negotiate specific terms into their contracts.

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