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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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.

We have a union contract.

Every employee is guaranteed an average of every 3rd weekend off--

17 per yr

Many RNs prefer to work--we get paid 25% premium pay for every Sat or Sun worked

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Specializes in LTC, Subacute Rehab.

Where I work, it's a 4 days on / two off schedule, so you will have the full weekend off every six or seven weeks...

There are two nurses who have been there for nearly twenty years; they work Mon-Fri, no exceptions.

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Specializes in Cardiac.

Nope. We gotta work 2 out of 4 weekends a month (or more accurately, 4 weekend days out of 8). Bummer...No weekend diff either.

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Specializes in Tele, Home Health, MICU, CTICU, LTC.

I don't think it is a writtern rule, but where I work there are several nurses who do not work weekends. They have worked in this unit for 20+ years though and in a way I feel they deserve it.

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Specializes in ER, PACU, Med-Surg, Hospice, LTC.

Everyone has the same obligation where I work.

There are Nurses that have been at this hospital for 15-20+ years that hate it.

I can see there point, too. But, I can also see how new hires would be completely burned out if they had to work every weekend.

Weekend hires is a great idea!

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it "pays" to work weekends where I work--not only do eves and nites get their shift differential but ALL shifts get 25% more for weekends:yeah:

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We get a measly 5% differential. Some people request to work them though, just because there are fewer tests/procedures those days, no mgmt, etc. You wouldn't have to mandate people to work shifts they didn't want if you upped the differential enough to make it worth their while, but of course that costs money, and God forbid nurses ever see any of that - I'd work at least one a week for 25%, in a heartbeat.

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Specializes in ER,ICU,L+D,OR.

Actually I am part time, and if I do not want to work weekends I dont have to. I choose to because it always nicer to work when the suits are not around. Much more relaxed

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