working weekends

ustegrl · Dec 21, 2004

I was just curious as to how many weekends other nurses were required to work. I have to work 4 weekend shifts per month, which in my opinion I feel is too much. I have talked to some of my nurse friends in other states and I am required to work more weekend shifts than all of them. So I wanted to find out how many weekends nurses in southern california are required to work.

I too was required to work on weekends but only every other week per month

kurlykay · Dec 23, 2004

I have to work every other weekend

Mulan · Dec 23, 2004

When you say weekend shifts, do you mean the whole weekend or only one day of the weekend?

I'm used to jobs where I worked 3 out of 4 weekends, or most recently every other weekend and that includes the whole weekend, Saturday and Sunday.

RNKPCE · Dec 23, 2004

At my hospital you work every other weekend which works out to 4 weekend shifts a month. I am per diem and have to be avail to work 2 weekend shifts out of 4 weeks, they don't have to be a consecutive Sat/Sun.

I have heard of some hospital offering nurses with lots of Seniority weekend free schedules but this is rare and usually for nurses with greater than 20yrs seniority.

nurturing_angel · Dec 24, 2004

I currently work every third weekend but my last job was a weekend free schedule. They had a full crew of weekend option people and none of the regular shift people worked weekends.

Vickie :balloons:

ethelbsnrn · Dec 24, 2004

I work every weekend, 3 12's, 36 hrs/ week, and paid 40 hours, that is aside from the weekend differential.

There's also 16 hrs/shift, 32 hrs/week ,and paid 40 hrs, aside from the weekend differential.

kbrn · Dec 29, 2004

In most acute care facilities, RN's generally work every other week-end. In our facility if you have been there over 20 years, then you can take the option of working every third week-end. Please remember that a hospital is a 24hr/7day a week operation.