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Holiday Schedules & Vacations

In most cases, everyone would enjoy the holidays off. However, in a hospital or nursing home that is not possible, for patient care does not stop for the holidays. So how is it decided who works holidays? Holiday Schedules Some nurses will volunteer to cover Holidays in order to get extra pay. When there are no volunteers, there has to be a fair schedule made so that every worker is treated fairly. Different medical facilities handle holiday scheduling in different ways. -       Some facilities ask for volunteers that want to work the holiday.  Depending on the number of volunteers, the final selection of employees will be added accordingly. -       Seniority may dictate holiday Schedules in some cases, however, this is becoming less popular.  -       The most popular means of scheduling for holidays is to do a routine schedule. This entails everyone taking turns covering holidays. This way no one is exempt from working a holiday, but no one employee will work every holi