How many weekends are you required to work?

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Hi everyone, I was just curious how many weekend shifts you were required to work in a month. I have to work 4 weekend shifts per month, and in my opinion, feel that it is a lot. It seems like all my friends that are nurses in other states are required to work a lot less than that. Just curious to hear what other nurses that work in hospitals were required to work.

Three weekend out of five. And they wondered why it took forever to fill the vacancies.

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None, we have the "baylor plan"!

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Specializes in NICU, Infection Control.

I'm "casual"/per-diem, whatever the vernacular is in your workplace; I'm required to work 2 weekend shifts/schedule (4wks), and one summer and one winter holiday. I think it's a pretty good deal.

Some places-not mine-give a weekend differential--not much, but it helps a little.

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Specializes in floor to ICU.
Every other weekend.... :o

same here (NO weekend diff pay)

:uhoh21:

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None :)

But we don't always work 24/7 here.

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Every third weekend....but we do get weekend shift differential...I think it's an extra $4.50/hr on the weekend before 3PM and an extra $6.50/hr after 3PM.

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A little thanks for us WOWs?! No "regulars" work weekends where I am, because we WOWs work them. Now, though, people don't complain about having to work weekends, they complain about the WOWs getting a differential for working every weekend. Just can't please all the people all the time!

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Our hospital requires us to work every other weekend

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Specializes in Med-Surg.

Every other weekend. Which equals four a month. Pretty common in this area.

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Specializes in Psych, Med/Surg, Home Health, Oncology.

I work full time, acute care setting med/surg/onc floor.

We have to work every other weekend, everyother holiday.

No exceptions.

MaryAnn

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for 35 years as an ICU nurse every other weekend, every other Holiday. Now for Holidays, if you have reached the point of highest seniority then it depends on the acuity of the unit and need for nurses.

Some ICUs were much larger and they could work out an every third weekend rotation for their nurses.

We also had to do 5 years of rotation of shifts before being able to get only the day shift.

This is what most hospitals (I have worked in 8 depending on where I lived) did for many years.

Newer nurses NOW think these type of work rotations are terrible, not realizing that this had been the pattern for decades.

As long as you can come up with a fair equitable system that covers 24/hr/day/week/month go for it. This is also one reason why many nurses went into management, not because they wanted to manage (and most are terrible managers if that was their underlying reason as besides the hours they wanted to get away from the dirty work side of hands on nursing) but because it fit their lifestyle better. Unfortunately nursing has a few good leaders and many bad leaders IMO as we look at the mess nursing has become.

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Specializes in Pediatrics, Nursing Education.

We have a small unit. Our schedular makes sure that we all split the weekends evenly. If our weekends aren't even, there is a reason, such as having requests off. I don't think that we've ever had a problem with the weekend thing. She counts up how many shifts need covered with the number of nurses needed and then divides it between the staff. then we do that many of them. now, you might do three weekends in a row, but then you could have two off. or it could be every other weekends. our people are very good about this!

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