Question About Shifts

[trainmap]

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Hello everyone,

I am a premed and have been reading a lot of the threads involving the shift work and from what I understand there is a lot of movement at least earlier in ones career.

My question is, would it be realistic to negotiate with a group where you work exclusively evening or night shifts? Such as an 11am-11pm or 7pm-7am shifts for every shift that you work?

I'm a volunteer EMT-B....as well as a waiter so I work every weekend, holiday and night. That aspect isn't going to bother me in the slightest as I as well as my family has gotten used to that already.

Thank you in advance for reading and any response would be greatly appreciated.

 

[ccfccp]

You could almost certainly negotiate with many groups to exclusively do the 7p-7a shift. I know a couple of people who have done just that.

However, 11a-11p would be much more difficult, as these are the peak earning hours and I have a feeling people would be less willing to give up exclusivity in any sort of an RVU-based pay system.

 

[trainmap]

Oh ok, well that would be fine. I figure I could work from 7pm-7am, go to the gym after work at like 8am-10am then probably head home and sleep (or stay up and watch some football if it's Sunday!😀). Most of my friends at least now get off of work around 5 pm now anyway so on days i'd have off I could always do things then. Also I guess I could factor in days that i'm off if I have a family by then (hopefully) when they get home from school I could spend good time with them as well.

That's jumping the gun a little bit, but I was reading about how flexible the shifts where and was wondering just how flexible they were. In any case i'm not a morning person anyway so nights would probably suit me better.

Thank you so much for the reply.

 

[Greenbbs]

my group has dedicated nocturnists that work 7p-3a or 11p-7a. Thanks to those guys, I just work days and evenings and never have to work an overnight period.

 

[alreadylernd]

i'll add that often time negotiating to do exclusive overnights is often seen as a bonus to the group - you could get fewer shifts or a slightly higher rate for agreeing to do that.

 

[Greenbbs]

i'll add that often time negotiating to do exclusive overnights is often seen as a bonus to the group - you could get fewer shifts or a slightly higher rate for agreeing to do that.

which is how it works at my shop. there's a 4 shift differential for the same pay.

 

[trainmap]

my group has dedicated nocturnists that work 7p-3a or 11p-7a. Thanks to those guys, I just work days and evenings and never have to work an overnight period.

7pm-3am doesn't sound bad at all to me. I'm a night person (as i'm WIDE awake right now at 2am) and I wouldn't mind doing that at all, would actually prefer it as that would be absolutely perfect. Even a 5pm-3am would be nice.

That said, do you still get to do some good work at those times? I wouldn't be sitting around doing nothing would I? I'm sure it depends but i'm just asking in general.

Thanks again for the replys.

 

[Greenbbs]

7pm-3am doesn't sound bad at all to me. I'm a night person (as i'm WIDE awake right now at 2am) and I wouldn't mind doing that at all, would actually prefer it as that would be absolutely perfect. Even a 5pm-3am would be nice.

That said, do you still get to do some good work at those times? I wouldn't be sitting around doing nothing would I? I'm sure it depends but i'm just asking in general.

Thanks again for the replys.

I work in an ED that sees 100k visits/yr. There's work to be done at all times. Rarely do the 11p-7a people have nights that we consider 'slow' (i.e. seeing 15 patients per side on a shift).