Who watches your kids during summer hours?

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Hello Im just wondering in the summer as an RN when kids are not in school does anyone have trouble finding childcare for the younger children under 12? Isnt it expensive in the summer? I guess family support would be the best way?

There is a project for creating a parents' guide for scheduling childcare help with each other in a coop arrangement. It seems to me that in a large shiftworker facility like a hospital, there are likely to be enough parents living close to each other that a couple parents could spend the day hanging out watching not only their own kids, but also some of their coworkers kids. Those coworkers would in turn watch their kids on one of their own days off.

The project stub is at OurProject.org here: http://ourproject.org/projects/childshare/. If anyone is interested in expanding on this idea or sharing how you may have informally done something similar, it would help flesh out the project. That website is for people to connect in discussing public-domain projects in a forum-like environment, kind of like AllNurses.com.

Regarding the expense of childcare vs. income, my hospital has its own childcare facility for employees, charging a fee approximating one hour's RN wages per day. It's a nice option to have, and perhaps more hospitals should consider it.

This is a wonderful idea. It takes one person to expand on something! I would love if my hospital had a daycare.

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