Sample sched office daylight hours that include Sat

DocsWifey · Sep 16, 2012

I'm contemplating jobs in clinics that are the daylight variety. 9-6 and Sat 9-3p is an example of one that I'm looking at.
When I worked in the hospital with the 3 12's I worked days/nights and it was awful for me bc they'd usually sched me to work Fri nights when that would be my weekend off so I didn't have true weekends off and I felt like I was working all the time between not having a life the days I worked and recouping that 1st day off, I vowed I'd stick to no weekend type jobs.
Another thing I learned is that in hospital setting Saturdays belonged to one week and Sundays to another so quite often you end up working a while without having off 2 days in a row. I experienced that kind of thing in LTC and having 1 day off inbetween 3 and 4 day stretches just doesn't work for me. I would have never guessed that and only found out once I was hired and stuck, so I want to avoid any situation like that.
I'm thinking since it's Saturdays only and not Sundays it wouldn't be that bad. If the Saturday worked would then mean Mondays off that would be nice, but maybe that's not how the schedule would work.
So if you work in a doctor's office or outpatient clinic that inc Saturdays what's a sample of your schedule? Thanks!

I work in a sugery office, but we only work Monday through Friday 6.30 am to 3.30 pm. I like the hours, because I still have time to do something after work and can spent time with my kids.

I didn't know either that Saturdays belong to one week and Sundays to another. So thanks for that info! Eventually I want to get back into a hospital setting and something like that is good to know.

Hopefully someone can help you shed some light into the Saturday working situation. Good luck finding what's right for you!

kath<3, BSN, RN · Sep 16, 2012

Saturdays always are the end of the week, I believe, no matter where you work. I always did weekend option and had Mon-Thurs off as I requested to do three and done

hug_a_nurse_prn · Sep 16, 2012

I have worked as both an LPN and then RN for 14 of the last 15 years in a clinical office setting. My first year as a nurse was spent working night shift/med surg. The crazy hours and often unpredictable schedule, were not very condusive to my then small children's happiness. I was always the sleepy cranky mom, on the back of the field trip school bus. I work Monday-Friday, 8-5. Be aware that you will take a significant pay cut (at least 10.00 hourly) in most places. If having nights, weekends and all major holidays off with your loved ones is worth it though, you will never look back. I haven't.....

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Kitty Hawk, ADN, RN · Sep 16, 2012

I have worked as both an LPN and then RN for 14 of the last 15 years in a clinical office setting. My first year as a nurse was spent working night shift/med surg. The crazy hours and often unpredictable schedule, were not very condusive to my then small children's happiness. I was always the sleepy cranky mom, on the back of the field trip school bus. I work Monday-Friday, 8-5. Be aware that you will take a significant pay cut (at least 10.00 hourly) in most places. If having nights, weekends and all major holidays off with your loved ones is worth it though, you will never look back. I haven't.....

Yeah, I hear that about pay in doctor's offices. I do work basically 9-5p now. Actually 730-4p and 830-5p are the 2 shifts. I make just as much if not more than the hospital. The laser clinic I'm considering would have to be at least that, but from my understanding they make even more bc the nurses are taught the laser procedure. So I'm good with all that part of it, I'm just curious about how the schedule works. Though if everywhere the Saturday is the end of week I guess I could just look at a block month and plot out days and see how it would look.

I'm not sure if I'm making sense about my concern. Like I mentioned the one place I worked that was every other wknd in theory sounded okay, but bc of that split weekend thing by the time the next week the days you worked it just seemed like there were stretches of 5 days and only have 1 day off and so on...it just seemed like it was an endless cycle of working more without 2 days in a row.

hiddencatRN, BSN, RN · Sep 17, 2012

Saturday is the end of the week everywhere I've worked, and with every other weekend commitment you work Saturday and Sunday next to each other, so it's one day from the previous week and one day from the following week. So for example, you might gave a schedule like this:

M T Sa

Su Th Fri

M T Sa

Su Th Fri

Etc. So you do end up working one weekend day every week, but you're also working every other weekend.

classicdame, MSN, EdD · Sep 17, 2012

I used to work for a surgeon weekdays, but off on Wednesday and only worked half a day Saturday so basically it was a good deal for me.

Kitty Hawk, ADN, RN · Sep 17, 2012

I used to work for a surgeon weekdays, but off on Wednesday and only worked half a day Saturday so basically it was a good deal for me.

Yeah, that's more like what I mean. BC the Saturdays would only be for 6 hours, so I wondered how they figure that out. Certain franchises of theirs have Thur evening hours but the job description specifically states no evenings so I don't know if they don't have evenings there or what.

For the other response, there would be no Sundays, they're not open then that's why I asked what I did in the original question wondering how Saturday only works out.