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

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  1. Do you get to eventually drop weekend obligation where you work?

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      Yes, after a certain amount of years
    • 91
      No, staff nurses alway have this obligation
    • 12
      We hire weekend nurses for a higher rate to free others from this obligation
    • 10
      It's done on an individual basis, not by contract

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Specializes in LTC, Med/Surg, Peds, ICU, Tele.

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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Specializes in LTC, Med/Surg, Peds, ICU, Tele.

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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Specializes in ICU/ER.

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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Specializes in CTICU, Rapid Response Team, telemetry.

I do not believ that in either of the hospitals I work will you ever get to drop weekends.

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Specializes in Nursing Home ,Dementia Care,Neurology..

Moved to general nursing polls.

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Specializes in Community, Renal, OR.

Nope, Nah, Nadda, Never ever

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Specializes in Med-Surg.

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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Specializes in Nephrology, Cardiology, ER, ICU.

Nope! Heck, I'm an APN and I STILL work weekends - one in every 4!

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Specializes in LTC, Med/Surg, Peds, ICU, Tele.

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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Specializes in here and there.

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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Specializes in ED/trauma.
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.

I would LOVE that deal!

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In my case having an extra weekend off is largely dependent on the needs of the ER. Because I only work part time, I am required to work every other weekend. In my case, this works out well, because it gives me extra time at home with my children during the week, as well as giving my husband a taste of what "mommy life" is like! :cool:

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