Working on holidays

We bring in food, eat all day, go downstairs to get our free "Holiday" dinner, eat that & then snack to keep our strength up before going home to our big dinner with the whole fam damily.:Santa1: I'm on 12 hours on Xmas day @ time & 1/2.

We don't really do anything different as we are a palliative care home. When I worked in the hospitals, usually ICU or medicine, we never had time to do anything different.

the difference that i have noticed is that the patients are much worse as a rule..

if they had elective procedures they would usually put them off until after the holidays

if they were terminal the family couldn't take them home

usually a lighter load but requiring a lot of care

of course this is med-surg

l&d would probably not see much of a difference

I work in MA too MASSRN2B. I work on an ambulance and the people working on turkey day or Christmas will each bring in a side dish or dessert and someone brings in BIG turkey and we have a big dinner. YUMMY.

Swtooth