Hospital staff/no weekends/holidays

[finallyRN7]

Has anyone ever been privileged to be hired as part of hospital as a staff nurse and be allowed not to have to work weekends or holidays due to the schedule of your child's child care facility? I know these working hours are virtually unheard of at a hospital for a staff nurse, but I know it has happened somewhere. So, who has experienced this or know someone who has? I know these hours are usually found in outpatient, but I'm very curious about hospitals. Thanks!

[Dranger]

Thanks guys. The answers were where my gut led me. However, I know a friend who just landed a staff position at a hospital and has been secured a no weekends/holidays position simply because she knows the manager VERY well. A mere example of pure favoritism. Oh well, some individuals are just that lucky.

lol...let me know how that works out. Her colleagues will be pleased for sure.

I started nights and worked every crappy shift you could think of....pay your dues because everyone has family to be with.

[dirtyhippiegirl, BSN, RN]

We have an elective cath unit that doesn't do holidays or weekends since the docs don't want to cath people on those days.

[llg, PhD, RN]

As a few others have said, there are some departments within some hospitals that only work weekdays, no holidays. We have a short-term procedure unit that does elective procedures (not surgery, but rather things like tests requiring sedation, etc.) that has that schedule. Our dialysis unit is on that schedule. Our OR and PACU used to be on that schedule, but with having to take a little bit of call for emergency surgeries. Now they always keep a team in-house. But they only have to work an occasional weekend or holiday.

[applewhitern, BSN, RN]

There is a hospital near me that constantly advertises for "WOW" positions~ meaning, work on weekends. I never see them advertise for the sacred Monday-Friday positions, so I guess it must be hard to fill those weekend spots.

[wooh, BSN, RN]

lol...let me know how that works out. Her colleagues will be pleased for sure.

And then she'll be here complaining about all the horizontal violence and bullying and nurses eating their young.

[RunBabyRN]

And then she'll be here complaining about all the horizontal violence and bullying and nurses eating their young.

ROFL!!

[TiffyRN, BSN, PhD]

I worked a Baylor plan where I only worked 2 days/week and got paid for 32hrs/week. There truly were staff that worked M-F 8hr shifts. I don't think they had exceptions for holidays unless they fell on weekends.

I don't know of any bedside nursing hospital jobs that are M-F, no holidays. There are some jobs like employee health, infection control (one of our nurses left to go to this position), wound care (as previously mentioned) and management (though many of those run well over 40hrs/week and one is on call sometimes for weekends).

I have heard of other generous schedule concessions granted by managers but usually they can't guarantee no weekends and no holidays.

[beckyboo1, BSN, RN]

I've seen ppl promised no weekends on hire but eventually, their schedule was changed and boy were they ticked! We had weekend only positions here too until we were bought out and they did away with the weekend package. Your friend might get lucky with her schedule for now, but I guarantee that type of schedule won't last.

[sbostonRN]

There is a charge position at my hospital that works only Monday to Friday days, but that nurse has been working for a long time and it's sort of a unit manager position that works closely with case management.

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[Caffeine_IV]

No weekends I have seen but not both especially as a new employee or new nurse. Anything is possible but the chances awe slim.

[RNGriffin]

Only if you work with same day surgery, if the surgeons have elected not to work holidays/weekend/nights ( highly unlikely).

I wouldn't look at your friends situation, as it's obvious both will be terminated pretty soon or there will be a change of units for one or the other( likely both). The nurse manager has abused her hiring power and the new staff nurse has lied on an application. This is why applications as, "do you or anyone else you know work for this organization/facility"