Is this a fair holiday schedule

[sweet sunshine]

I work 3, 12 hour night shifts. We are required to work 2 out of 3 holidays. I got Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve. 12 hour night shift. The new schedule came out and I'm scheduled Halloween, Thanksgiving day, 12 hour night shift, and Black Friday. I guess the 12 hour night shift on Thanksgiving day is not considered a holiday, the Wednesday night before is the holiday. No family time for holidays this year! What a sucky schedule!

[StrwbryblndRN]

I've learned that I do not need a holiday to enjoy my family. I am more than happy to celebrate Christmas in January. I know I am in the minority here but I went into nursing understanding this and accept it. I have argued a few times specifically when a new nurse self schedules 4 days off in a row and it would include Christmas eve, Christmas, Friday and Saturday; and management approves it by doing nothing. That is truly unfair.

[hppygr8ful, ASN, RN, EMT-I]

Here's a funny thing. At the facility where I work we cannot request holidays off. We work the holiday if it falls on our regularly scheduled workday. What this means is we get the day off roughly every 7 years. The staffing coordinator can call us off if census and acuity are low and senior employees can request to be first called off but that's it. Like others here we celebrate as a family when we can and it actually gets me out of planning/hosting holiday events in my home. I work 8's so there's still plenty of time to get to my sister's house. She enjoys putting on such events.

Hppy

[rehabnurse1]

I volunteer to work Christmas every year. My kids are older and we celebrate Christmas eve anyway. I don't like Black Friday shopping but I like the day off because I need to recover from all the food I ate on Thanksgiving. We can request days off on the weeks of the holidays but they are not guaranteed. And no PTO is allowed during those weeks.