re: Shift workers.....dealing with family and missing holidays cause you are working

I'm not sure if it is this way at your hospital, but for us we got to pick two holidays out of the four to work. I always wanted off Christmas and Thanksgiving. I always worked Mardi Gras and Easter. I could always fit a trip to church in somewhere too. And plus Mardi Gras brought in all the crazy psych patients and you know how much I loved those