They said they’d have me work night shifts and now they’re scheduling me for rotating shifts.

[ThatOneRN_]

I was recently hired at a hospital. They usually make their nurses do rotating shifts. I’m a night person so I told them I’d prefer nights, they said they would make it work but still had to hire me as a rotating shift nurse on paper. Now they send me the schedule for after my orientation period and they scheduled me for a full rotating schedule. 

Would it be rude if I emailed my supervisor about this? What’s a polite way to say it?

[Been there,done that, ASN, RN]

See that you have problems with your schedule AND the length of your orientation.

Five weeks is nowhere enough orientation  to go from rehab to ER. To add insult to injury.. you are now assigned to rotating shifts. 

I am a nurse of 35 years... I can tell you I could maybe handle one.. but not both.

Get outtta Dodge.

Good luck.

[turtlesRcool]

The optimist in me says to start by assuming there was a breakdown in communication somewhere or the person who hired you forgot.  There's a chance that if you simply address it as an error, you will be pleasantly surprised to find that's all it was, and you'll get your straight nights easily.

I agree that you probably can't do much about it if they want to have you as a rotating nurse, since that's what you contractually signed up to do.  So your options are quit, suck it up, or try to work out a solution on your own.

I'm going to bet there are lots of other people who would rather not do a rotation.  So, maybe ask around and see if you can find someone who wants to do straight days.  Then go to the scheduler and ask to be put on straight nights (you) and straight days (other person).  Win-win.

So if the rotating schedule was just a mistake, great.  If you can get it resolved through a colleague schedule swap, that's okay, too, but going forward you'll know not to trust anything that's not in writing.