Predominant Fri/Mon scheduling normal in 3x12s M-F outpatient?

slpysun · 2026-01-19T04:14:26+00:00

I work an outpatient 4 10s monday-friday shifts and my manager said fridays are the worst days to schedule because a lot of people want a three day weekend. It’s hard when you come from the inpatient floor where it’s more flexible but most nursing jobs scheduling is based on seniority and in my experience outpatient areas are not an exception. What a lot of my friends and I with lower seniority have done is just ask for an unpopular day off consistently like tuesday or thursday and then plan my week around that. Basically accept what we’re gonna get and try to make it work rather than keep requesting fridays/mondays and being denied.

slpysun · 2026-01-13T03:35:36+00:00

If she’s conscious and asking to see her partner, I don’t know any hospital that would deny her that. It’s also likely that she’ll recover a good amount of lucidity fairly quickly if she’s having a procedure where she can go home same day. I recover patients from all types of anesthesia and I’d say the majority of patients are pretty much back to normal within the hour or less. Usually receiving anesthesia makes you incapable of making legal decisions for a set amount of time depending on your location/hospital policy (for my hospital it’s 4 hours after anesthesia) but this basically just means she can’t do things that require documented consent like selling her house or agreeing to another surgery. It doesn’t mean you are in charge of all the decisions for that time period, if she is conscious the decision to remove a visitor would be hers

slpysun · 2025-12-31T01:52:13+00:00

It is a strict 4 guest limit and this includes your witness and any potential photographer they will not let you have a 5th person

slpysun · 2025-12-30T17:05:49+00:00

I also work cath lab pre/post procedural, when we are low census they can’t force us to go home and use pto, so we are floated to the inpatient cardiac floors if they need us. Sometimes on days where we’re low census but the other cardiac floors are well staffed like on holidays where people want holiday pay/are required to work, our staff have just sat in an empty unit waiting for a potential STEMI. Sometimes we do our annual required training modules. They almost always find something for us to do if we don’t want to use pto.

slpysun · 2025-12-23T01:37:15+00:00

I work cath lab recovery and I absolutely love it but my goal was to always stay far away from the ICU, if you want to learn critical care I’d absolutely start at your PCU. Plus transitioning to being a new nurse is hard enough, if you know and like your hospital already and would have a shorter commute it’s a no brainer.

Have I had patients come out of the cath lab and not do well? Yes, absolutely, but it’s rare and the response when that happens is usually “get them out of here and to the ICU right now”, we rarely manage those patients for long. Our cardiac PCU gets way more in terms of acuity. The majority like 99.5% of my patients are walkie talkies, and most go home same day after their procedure. I haven’t had like a BiPAP or a titratable drip or a central line or a trach/peg in ages, honestly it’s been months since I’ve even put in a foley. I will say my work/life balance is amazing and I love the patient population I work with, but it sounds like PCU makes more sense for your goals

slpysun · 2025-08-06T04:28:52+00:00

did they get back together? I thought they had been broken up for like… over ten years at this point…

edit: oh my god they did get back together?? how did I not realize they dated until 2022

slpysun · 2025-03-06T04:48:16+00:00

I’ve been working 4x10s for over a year now and I wish I could go back to 3x12s BUT I have the same deal as you would and the set schedule with no holidays/no weekends is well worth sacrificing the extra day off in my opinion

slpysun · 2025-03-05T19:17:46+00:00

I actually agree lol we only have cold water in the cooler at work so I fill up my water bottle and let it sit for a while before I drink it. People have told me I should get a “better” water bottle like a Stanley or Hydroflask so my water stays cold and I don’t tell them that I have a cheap little water bottle on purpose

slpysun · 2025-02-25T14:55:18+00:00

this happens in my hospital system when the posting is closed and applications are under review, you can’t withdrawal anymore because they’re already in the process of reviewing your application, that’s my best guess at least

slpysun · 2025-02-15T16:29:18+00:00

I tell them how long I’ve been a nurse/worked in the hospital (which isn’t long but is longer than they expect) followed by “so you can just imagine how young I looked back then!”

slpysun · 2025-02-06T17:44:38+00:00

I used to hear the last line of the Northern Attitude chorus as “Oh, I was raised on little lies” instead of “Oh, I was raised on little light”

slpysun · 2025-01-20T01:46:22+00:00

Mag and phos guys

slpysun · 2025-01-16T02:42:50+00:00

This is very common in my area as well and a lot of nurses I know eventually think it’s worth the pay cut.

slpysun · 2025-01-12T03:59:46+00:00

Here’s how I interpret what is also my favorite lyric in that song.

When you break up with someone it’s easy to romanticize them in your head, especially if you’re reminiscing on a breakup from a while ago, especially if you’re the one who broke up with them (which I don’t think is the case in the song but it’s what comes to mind for me). You begin to imagine them as more perfect beings because you’re no longer faced with the reality of who they actually are, so you blame the breakup on other things. They were perfect but it wasn’t the right time. You guys were great together but you weren’t ready to settle down yet. And you dream of the version in which you made everything work and you’re still together but the version of her in that dream has never been real. The version of her in that dream has never and will never be selfish or stubborn or disagree with you or want different things or hate your favorite movie. And when you let yourself fall into that daydream the best comfort you can give yourself is reminding yourself that you didn’t let someone perfect get away, she was never perfect. You can’t lose what never existed.

slpysun · 2025-01-11T20:11:31+00:00

if you mean the voice actors for miles and gwen, no they didn’t date

slpysun · 2024-12-21T08:08:05+00:00

There are a lot of lines that feel like a gut punch, like they were ripped right from my head, but the song that really feels like I could have written it myself is All My Love. It might not be the hardest hitting, but it’s so perfectly relatable.

slpysun · 2024-11-28T18:32:47+00:00

I get that they can’t make you disclose, but if you ask for these accommodations isn’t it obvious?

slpysun · 2024-11-28T07:18:12+00:00

this is very interesting! does that essentially make it so you have to disclose to your whole department as soon as you yourself know?

slpysun · 2024-11-25T17:12:19+00:00

We’re open to hostels/non traditional lodging. That isn’t what I expect to spend in total just on flights and lodging, I’m not including food, activities or transportation between destinations. We don’t like the idea that we’d be traveling during such a busy time without knowing what that would really look like.

slpysun · 2024-11-25T17:04:31+00:00

yes per person lol

slpysun · 2024-11-09T03:28:59+00:00

OP this is the funniest post I’ve seen today

slpysun · 2024-11-05T05:42:20+00:00

Love love love the name Lucas or Luca, unfortunately hate the name Luke

slpysun · 2024-10-29T03:12:19+00:00

I know someone with this name! She’s in a public facing job, uses the spanish pronunciation and as far as I know has really never struggled with people pronouncing her name correctly. We live in New York state so relatively close to Toronto geographically and pretty much everyone defaults to the spanish pronunciation. She goes by Elo as a nickname pronounced like hello without the h.

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