Nursing Lyfe 101

Keeping Spirits Bright on Holiday Shifts

• Nursing Lyfe 101 • Season 1 • Episode 3

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What if goal-setting could be as fun and engaging as a game of bingo? Join us as we usher in 2025 with stories from Colby and Christopher, who share their creative approaches to New Year's resolutions using a bingo card. Colby celebrates a win with her goals, while Christopher reflects on his journey and plans to tackle unfinished objectives. You'll walk away with fresh ideas to keep your personal, financial, and leisure goals on track throughout the year.

The holiday season brings unique challenges to those in the nursing profession, especially when it comes to staffing. From the complexities of holiday pay discrepancies and gender roles to strategies for shift swapping, we uncover the realities of working through festive seasons. Discover how different health systems might incentivize working on personal holidays and how nurses navigate scheduling amidst family commitments, ensuring fair distribution of shifts among staff.

Finally, we sprinkle some festive cheer into the discussion, highlighting ways to keep spirits high during holiday shifts. Explore playful traditions like Elf on the Shelf competitions and the importance of potlucks and festive attire in fostering camaraderie. Learn about the Sunshine Fund’s role in supporting colleagues during life's milestones and how creative holiday parties can maintain team unity. Whether you're a nurse or simply curious, these stories and tips offer a heartfelt glimpse into the holiday hustle in healthcare.

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Christopher:

Welcome to Nursing Lyfe 101, the most important nursing class you never got to take in nursing school. We will be traversing different objectives, like interviewing what to do in nursing school, boundaries burnout and so much more, if this interests you. I hope you are taking good notes because class is now in session.

Christopher:

Well, Happy New Year, everybody and welcome to Nursing Lyfe 101. We're so excited to have you here with us as we dive into the world of nursing, sharing our experiences, insights and a little bit of fun along the way. I'm Christopher. I haven't changed my name in the new year.

Christopher:

And I couldn't be happier to introduce my co-host.

Colby:

Hey guys, I'm Colby, and together we'll be bringing you real stories, practical tips and discussions about all things nursing. Whether you're a fellow nurse or just curious about life behind the scrubs, we're thrilled to have you join us.

Christopher:

And since it's happy new year, it is 2025. I can't believe wow, you know, I was just born just a wee bit ago that we decided to just talk about holidays and how that kind of impacts you as nurses, because it is interesting, for sure, and I think, in terms of like kind of starting out, it's a brief explanation, actually. No, let's not start with that, let's just what's your favorite holiday?

Colby:

My favorite holiday is my birthday, always

Christopher:

no.

Christopher:

Not the answer.

Colby:

It is

Christopher:

no,

Colby:

listen, your birthday is a holiday. But if we're talking conventional holidays, yes, the federal holidays, listen, your birthday is a holiday but if we're talking conventional holidays, it's the federal holidays. The federal holidays that most other people don't have to work is New Year's Eve.

Colby:

Such New Year's it is my holiday.

Christopher:

Actually, I didn't know that. I was like did I know that? I didn't know that? Yeah, so I mean, why? Why is that?

Colby:

I just think it's like it's the perfect time of year to do your final reflections of the year that you just went through. You just passed, that just passed, and it's a great time of year to kind of like look ahead and picture what you want the next year ahead. And I'm not I'm not huge on resolutions, but I do like to kind of have like last year we got together and we did a bingo card, which was really fun. So I like to have goals, I like to reframe it. I feel like resolution is kind of worn out. I guess you'd say

Christopher:

well resolutions don't tend to last.

Colby:

They don't last, it's more. It a worn out term, but I like to reframe it and set it more as like goals. And we did it in a more fun way last year, where we filled out a blank bingo card and it was like things that, like, some of them were just like throwaways, like, oh like we tried

Christopher:

On your birthday was one,

Colby:

yeah, the middle one, like a free space, is your birthday.

Colby:

But then it was just like other things that like would like to do, like one of the things was buy a mountain bike and I bought one this year. So, like, for you know, an example is that yeah. But then I also had a real goal. I had a goal like pay off my student loans.

Christopher:

Oh, yeah, okay yeah.

Colby:

Like. So there's like a mixture. You can put financial education, finance, whatever I said, financing twice. But clearly that's a big one for me. And then just like fun things too, like I also had like go on a girls trip, go to an MLB game, which we did together. We did that, yeah, yeah. So I think it's just, it's like a fun time of year, it's your final wrap up for the holidays and it's excitement going into the new year cool.

Christopher:

How did you do in terms of your bingo?

Christopher:

card.

Colby:

Oh, I I got, I didn't. So I didn't get like a full square. I mean, you know, like you know, a full blackout card, yeah, um, but I did do. I did hit a bingo. I actually wish I wish I brought my bingo card here, I could have gone over and shared what I got. But I got a bunch of you know I did. But I got a bunch of you know I did a I knocked off a bunch of things, okay, which was exciting. I did not at all. You didn't get bingo at all.

Christopher:

No, I didn't.

Colby:

Oh, not even like postage stamp at the four corners?

Christopher:

That's not bingo

Colby:

It is, it counts.

Christopher:

No, I still didn't get that one though.

Colby:

Oh well, we've got to look at this. I feel like there's probably some things we can. Well, technically, we're recording this before the new year, but it's coming out after the new year, so we might be able to squeeze in a few more things.

Christopher:

Yeah, for you. I mean, I could really just pound out my some of the stories that I'm planning on writing, because I haven't. Yeah, but I also this was not something that I was planning in there.

Colby:

This, yeah, I was going to say like there were things that didn't fit in the bingo card. This didn't even get written down. So, like in the borders, I just wrote down some extra ones, like things I might want to do or that I did want to do with that. I think one or two of them actually did, but they weren't in the bingo card.

Christopher:

I definitely could have done Like I was supposed to go to two MLB games.

Colby:

I did one, yeah, yeah, this season's over, but I think I plan on doing something in that realm again for this year, for 2025.

Colby:

Maybe another bingo card, because it's kind of fun to. It was. Also the thing about the bingo card that was fun was that I was constantly looking back at the bingo card throughout the year to see like, oh, did I kind of cross something off? And so I think that's even like it's a little more involved than just like writing down your goals. I used to. I used to write down goals and I used to like break it up to like four categories and I'd put it next to my calendar on my wall and I would look at it every now and again and I would cross things off. That'd be great, but I think the having the bingo card like on the fridge and like it's just more interactive. I like, I don't know, I feel like I was a little more successful this year.

Christopher:

with that, I mean there I definitely feel like overall, in terms of like hitting goals was something that I definitely did more this year than I have in previous years, and I'm pretty good at hitting goals no matter what. But yeah, I was supposed to do 75 hard twice, but I didn't do that.

Colby:

I didn't even do it once this year, let's go on the 2025 bingo card.

Christopher:

Yeah, I think. Maybe. Just once though.

Colby:

Yeah, don't be too ambitious,

Christopher:

that's my problem. I shoot for dang, dang Pluto.

Colby:

Yeah, you shoot for the yeah, yeah Pluto. You're all the way out there. Maybe if you shot for the moon, you might have a little better. Okay, what's your favorite holiday Circling?

Christopher:

back. Yeah, yeah, can you share mine? I am a huge Thanksgiving fan.

Colby:

Yeah.

:

I love me some Thanksgiving

Colby:

who doesn't love? But it's a food holiday.

Christopher:

Yeah, I'm a foodie. Yeah, I might be a vegan foodie, but I'm a foodie.

Colby:

Yes, we've talked about this plenty, but there's good vegan food these days. It is not just like bland tofu and vegetables Like we have had. I've had some great vegan meals with you.

Christopher:

Yeah, you know blue zones, gotta keep those vegans in your life.

Colby:

Yes, that is factual. I'll live forever,

Christopher:

so you know.

Christopher:

We got to talk a little bit about actually two very major holidays and before we get too far into the topic, I do want to take a moment and just differentiate major holidays and minor holidays. So a major holiday in terms of our.

Christopher:

so this is all our facility our health systems wording and it can be very different depending on which health system you're a part of, but in terms of our health system, we have major minor holidays. Major holidays are the holidays that you get the holiday pay and the ones that are usually differentiated as you have to work them. You know we're essential workers and you have to at least work one of them. Those holidays are New Year's Eve, new Year's Day, christmas Eve, christmas Day and Black Friday, thanksgiving I don't know why I didn't say it in the normal cadence of everything else and then the minor holidays or any other federal holiday, depending on your unit specific. There was a point where my manager and I were looking over various holidays and Mother's Day, father's Day, july 4th, memorial Day, labor Day, halloween those are your minor holidays where things can go differently than your normal regular shift. That's not a federal holiday,

Colby:

do you guys, um, do you guys on your unit, do you guys on your unit um, assign minor holidays like you're? Like, for example, on my unit, even though we work in the same health system and same facility, they assign major and and minor. So like I'm assigned like fourth of july or memorial day and then it's like labor day or like last year I worked, but you, but you are pre-assigned these holidays like some of the minor ones.

Christopher:

Yeah, and so I guess and this is the cool thing about I will briefly venture into another episode at the moment and pop back, but it's still related I promise, in interviewing, when you interview for a unit, you need to ask about these things. Interviewing when you interview for a unit, you need to ask about these things because very much so colby has a unit that do you split it up? Or is it two holidays or is it three holidays? Is it like a three holiday group? Two holiday group?

Colby:

we, yeah, we have a, b and c, okay, so there's yeah, three groups.

Christopher:

Okay, so that that was not the thing for transplant. This year being 2025, we just switched to a three holiday schedule, and so now we have the kidney, pancreas and liver group. It was just it was just the kidney and liver group, and

Colby:

so you guys have more staff, so you could add a third group

Christopher:

, right, and so now we can split it up to where they're only working one major holiday every three weeks uh, three years, but that was not the case

Colby:

yeah, yeah, that's how we have it, split it up

Colby:

So it's like either you're working, either you're working the three majors that Christopher just went over. So either you're working Thanksgiving and Black Friday, then you wouldn't have to work the Christmas, christmas Eve or New Year's New Year's Eve, you wouldn't have to work those you would work. You know Thanksgiving's your holiday. So this year was for me Thanksgiving and Black Friday, which is great, um, and last year for me it was Christmas and next year will be New Year's, but I always get out of that. I'm a good switcher.

Christopher:

We'll talk about that.

Colby:

Yeah, we'll talk about that.

Christopher:

So I guess my question, Colby, you, I have only been in the health system that I've been in.

Christopher:

I have worked in healthcare, other places in terms of like nursing homes, home health, but not in another major health system. What were other health systems like? Well, actually you've worked as core in another health system and you've worked as a traveler in another health system. Yeah, I've worked. So kind of explain the two of those, if you can.

Colby:

Yeah, I've worked as a core staff in two other major health systems and then I've worked as a traveler in, I guess, like one health system but different hospitals. It wasn't that health system, health system but different hospitals. It wasn't that health system. Um, the first hospital I ever worked at was a smaller community hospital and it was actually more seniority based they were making. So I worked there for two years, my first two years of college, and they were moving towards a more fair model, but we were also a very small unit, so it wasn't as many people.

Colby:

And I think I think you worked two holidays and two major holidays and you got one major holiday off and it was seniority based. Um, I can't remember because it was pretty far back, but I know that I worked new year's eve and I think I worked new year's eve and christmas. I had thanksgiving off, like the first two years. So thanksgiving, two major, yeah. So because we were like a smaller unit, smaller amount of staff, so they just didn't have enough to go around. And then when I left that job and went to another major health system I'm trying to remember I definitely worked. I think it was just one holiday and we had more staff. So I was only there for a year, but I know that I was there during the holidays, so I'm pretty sure I just worked one. But for me, again, I'm a really good switcher. We'll talk about that in a second. But um, I often, depending on what my, what it is in my in the rotation year, will work two holidays in one year. Okay, yeah, interesting. And then when I was traveling.

Colby:

So the thing with traveling is it could be tricky. I think the mindset for most managers and this is totally expected as a traveler is that like, why wouldn't you put your travelers on the holiday to give your core staff time off with their families? Right, and you you should. If you're traveling, you should expect and you're traveling during the holiday season, you should expect that you're going to work those holidays. So if you're on a contract that starts in the beginning of november, you can probably put money on working all three major holidays. But you may get a manager who's like nope, equitable for everybody, we'll put you on one holiday and you'll have the other two off. Or you could work if you, before you sign your contract, you can talk to the manager and get it in your contract that I will only work this holiday, or I will work one of three, but not not all three. You can decide which three, or you can decide which one of the three, so you have a little more. You could potentially have a little more flexibility as a traveler.

Christopher:

Well, how many holidays did you work as a traveler? Well, yeah, that's what I'm saying.

Colby:

Yeah.

Christopher:

I know that, so go ahead.

Colby:

Well, my first year traveling, I think I worked one holiday.

Christopher:

One major holiday

Colby:

One major holiday.

Colby:

But then, going forward, I was really smart with where my contract fell and I actually finished up like mid-November, before the Thanksgiving, and I took off until after the new year, so I didn't have to work any holidays that year.

Christopher:

Yeah, that's the impressive thing about travelers like you. You make enough to kind of have a break in between. If you really do like plan your contract appropriately, you can really optimize your not working a holiday. Yeah, and at our health system currently I don't know if you know this, but the contracts that we do they say in the contracts that you have to work one every other holiday. You have to rotate every other. Oh, I didn't know that. Yeah, yeah, every other holiday and every other weekend. I didn't know that. That's good to know. Yeah, every other holiday and every other weekend.

Colby:

I didn't know about the weekends, but the holiday thing is interesting, that's cool.

Colby:

So I mean, that's not, that's not like mandatory you're going to have to work all of them. At least you can. Yeah, I mean, depending on where you, where your, that could stink but it could be worse, for sure, depending.

Christopher:

I mean, and you know to your point, if you, if you have worked on the unit before and kind of know the unit and know the manager, you can always talk to the manager and be like hey, like I want to renew, but I I have christmas plans or I have new year's eve plans.

Christopher:

I'll definitely work your thanksgiving day and black friday and I'll even, you know, pick up one or two extra weekends or something like that. Like to you.

Christopher:

You, as a traveler, have a lot of power

Colby:

if you have a good report, like with your management and you're you know, you're out there, you're doing and you're doing your job. This is like they're gonna be. There's gonna be managers out there that are pretty flexible, like if you could prove that your work, like you're doing the hard work, you're you know, not saying like you need to bend over backwards and do some crazy stuff and like and pick up every shift. That's that's asked of you. But these three days asked of you, you need at least three days before a manager does something, get working.

Christopher:

So with minor holidays, have you noticed any like weird staffing snafus? Like have they?

Christopher:

do you see that people call out more?

Colby:

I think it's a toss up.

Colby:

Yeah, I think it depends, and I would love to hear from your perspective too, because you have like a more of a bird's eye view as far as staffing things. Where I'm more like I'll notice it if I'm working, but if I'm not there it doesn't matter to me, right? So I will say it depends it. Yeah, I'm gonna say it really just depends. I feel like fourth of july, I'm gonna guess there's probably. I'm guessing that there's probably more call outs because it's summer, it's nice out, all everybody has like a long weekend and people want to go hang out and grill and barbecue. Same thing probably for memorial day. Yeah, I'm gonna say I see, we, we have some things like halloween, probably not as much. I'm gonna say it looks like we have like easter written down on our notes, probably not as much. I'm going to say it looks like we have Easter written down on our notes here, probably not as much, but I feel like Labor Day, memorial, on the 4th of July, there's probably a pattern of higher call-out rates 100%.

Christopher:

Yeah, you know which other one,

Colby:

what one?

Christopher:

Mother's Day.

Colby:

Well, it's a female-dominated career, right? It sure is his mom's want to hang out their kids.

Christopher:

They want the gifts, dang it no, but honestly,

Colby:

their mother's day brunches.

Christopher:

They should, they should, they deserve it I cannot believe people can carry other people in their bellies for that long.

Colby:

Okay, this is interesting. So, now that you are in your role as an assistant nurse manager, do you or did you this year or?

Colby:

do you plan for this coming year to staff more males on Mother's Day?

:

Oh that would. I think that's like

Colby:

Interesting play

:

. Well, it is, but I think that's. I think that's like teetering on like.

Colby:

Sexism. Yeah, okay, yeah, no,

Christopher:

I mean it could it could, and I, you know that's what.

:

That would be an interesting experiment, experiment,

Colby:

but you have to keep to yourself,

Christopher:

yeah, like I could not. Yeah, the fact that we just released this podcast.

Christopher:

I can't do it now,

Colby:

as long as you do an equal study on Father's Day.

Christopher:

Well, the thing is, though, that Father's Day isn't really a problem, right? What I think Father's Day is like the 8th, it's in June, right? Oh, I know, yeah, okay, sorry.

Christopher:

But it's like the 8th, it's like not the top five celebrated holidays.

Colby:

That's true.

Christopher:

I'm not going to give an actual number, but it's not as high as.

Christopher:

It's not top five. Yeah, mother's Day. I think it's like third after Christmas. Oh really, I didn't realize it was that high up. It's really high up. Yeah, okay, after Christmas. I think it's Christmas Halloween, as it should be Okay, like Christmas Halloween, as it should be Okay, like you said. Yes, as it should be, but Christmas Halloween Mother's. Day, and I think New Year's is after that oh wow, I would not have guessed that order. That's cool.

Colby:

I think everybody's going to be fact-checking me and telling me how terrible I am, Like actually.

Christopher:

But I'm putting Mother's Day pretty high up. That should be a good thing.

Colby:

Yeah.

Christopher:

So at your other health systems have you had pay differences in those minor holidays?

Colby:

Okay, that's a very good question. So, as core staff, minor holidays no. As a traveler yes.

Christopher:

Really.

Colby:

Interestingly enough, and I didn't think I did because I thought it would be more hospital-based, even though I'm a traveler, Right. But I did notice, like on MLK Day I was like, oh, on my paycheck I was like, oh, I'm going to holiday pay for working MLK Okay, like that's awesome, got holiday pay for working MLK. Okay, that's awesome. Like that was the first time I noticed it because our current health system does not pay extra for MLK, like no. So then I started looking back at other pay stubs and I was like, oh, I got extra on Memorial Day. I got extra, yeah, so at least my travel company did, and maybe they weren't supposed to be charging the hospital for that holiday pay, but they did and I got it Very, very interesting.

Christopher:

Yeah, Well, I also had heard that. What did that traveler say?

Christopher:

They had teamed from a hospital that did give you holiday pay and overtime if you worked your your birthday,

Colby:

oh yeah, my aunt's hospital um, they, my aunt's hospital will either give you like 12 hours of pto like extra to take your day off, or, if you want to work and you get paid overtime.

Christopher:

See, that's cool.

Colby:

Yeah, that is really cool. No, I don't, I didn't realize, I forgot about that, but I don't think that that's very rare. I don't think that you get, I don't think you get to do that in most places.

Christopher:

If, if, if you do, if you're working at a place that does this, let me know.

Colby:

Yeah, also, wait and correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure that our health system, even though we're required to work Christmas Eve, christmas as our holiday rotation, we're only getting paid holiday pay for.

Colby:

Christmas Day from midnight to 11.59.

Christopher:

Yeah, that's correct.

Colby:

Yeah,

Christopher:

so day shift is really ranking in the money.

Colby:

Well, night shift will too, if they keep it, whereas you have to work Christmas Eve night into Christmas, because Christmas Eve, obviously at midnight you're into Christmas, yeah so, but you have to make sure you work both of them, otherwise you're only getting four hours of holiday pay, and that's a bummer.

Christopher:

I'm so sorry to hear that. Yeah, yeah, but that's that is true and it was interesting because I thought it was only just Christmas, thanksgiving and New Year's Day for no, I didn't think New Year's was a holiday that we got paid for.

Colby:

New Year's Day is, but not New Year's Eve, right,

Christopher:

but not New Year's Eve, right, yeah, which then throws off the whole.

Christopher:

Oh no, if you still work night shift.

Colby:

Yeah, if you work New Year's Eve, you still get from midnight to 7, so you still get 8 hours.

:

But Thanksgiving you don't Right, okay, if you work Thanksgiving, you don't right.

Colby:

Okay, you have to work thanksgiving, you have to work wednesday, wednesday, thursday, friday, but and they used to do that. So when I work night shift at our health facility, night shift would work the day before and the day of to get their holiday, but if you were a day shift, it was day of day after yeah for thanksgiving.

Christopher:

yeah For Thanksgiving, specifically yeah, Do you. Have you ever been asked to switch off of like?

Christopher:

a minor holiday

Colby:

by management or by like.

Christopher:

Well, okay, well, colleagues, this Good question, let's start with colleagues first.

Colby:

And then let's, we'll get. Uh, um, I'm trying to think of colleagues. I think Someone was looking to get off Christmas and it was a year. Mine are, mine are, mine are off Christmas. Oh, I mean Christmas, christmas Eve. Are you talking about like you're talking about, 4th of July, that kind of stuff? Yeah, like 4th of July, colleen? Um, that's a good question. I'm gonna be honest, I don't participate in a lot of switches

Christopher:

but you ensure that you get off on.

Christopher:

New Year's Eve.

Colby:

That's the only one that I'm out here battling in the war zone for um. I don't get asked to participate a lot, but I also and we touched on this in the last few podcasts but when I'm not at work I'm booked and busy. So I think people know that about me and so they're like oh, she's probably got this and this and I'm not going to even bother asking. But I have. I mean not holiday related, but I mean I have done switches here and there when I was available to help accommodate other people, but I can't think of a minor holiday that I was like yeah, let me pick that up. I probably had a plan. I had probably had plans if I wasn't already looking.

Christopher:

I've been asked on July 4th, which I live in a state that isn't my hometown, so my family is not in this state and so, like, I'm like if, if I just go work the holiday, you know that's fine. Honestly, you know why I like the holiday. I will work almost any holiday, to be honest and the reason is there's no management. Yeah, there's less people usually.

Colby:

Census is usually lower,

Christopher:

census is usually lower. I'm like that's okay, you go enjoy whatever you're about to enjoy, because I'm getting paid to must sit chill. Yeah, just chill, have a good old time.

Colby:

Yeah, I know I will say more often than not, at least the pattern that we see, or an experience, is that holidays are, as far as the hospital goes, pretty laid back most of the time.

Christopher:

Yeah, and honestly I can remember, strangely enough, the nursing homes that I well, I only worked one, but the nursing home that I work in, the census would kind of die down too, like there.

Christopher:

We had like a rehab part of the nursing home so the nursing home part stayed the same, right, but the rehab part, yeah, they were trying to get people out.

Colby:

Yeah, last year when I worked Christmas we had, um, it was like less than 10 patients, it was like no patients. So I've been like we called off everybody. It was me, two other nurses and a tech on a unit that normally is like me, eight other nurses, two to three techs like we were like hanging out. I put up, I was streaming um, holiday movies on like our two big flat screens. That normally is our grace board with patient assignments and rooms. We did a potluck. Just the three of us we had brought stuff, or four of us we brought stuff in. We shared food with the patients because we all had brought so much food in, because you were expecting this huge group of people.

Colby:

One of our patients had this really sad it was the smallest, shrivel, huge group of people, yeah. And one of our patients had like this really sad, like it was like the smallest, shrivelest piece of like pork and like we were like this looks terrible. We were like loaded up with food from our potluck and gave it to the patient and they were like this is so good.

Christopher:

Yeah, because it was full of salt and they had no sense of diet.

Colby:

Hey, it's Christmas, let them live.

Christopher:

Oh my gosh,

Colby:

let them live a little. Have you ever been asked to switch and you're like you could, but you didn't really want to? What did you do?

Christopher:

No, no. So yes, but I usually said yes anyways,

Colby:

Because you have no boundaries.

Christopher:

You know I am not going to be bullied about my boundaries. I've set this boundary right now.

Colby:

Okay, Respect.

Colby:

I respect it, but I asked because I knew that would be your answer. And the reason why I asked because I know the answer is because, on the flip side, I have been asked and I'm like, even if I didn't have a plan and I didn't want to come in, like no is a full sentence and a full response, like no, no, thank you Period. Like you can be nice, you can say no, thank you, though. Thanks for asking. You don't have to say sorry, but you can if you want, no, sorry, thank you, though.

Colby:

Thanks for asking me.

Christopher:

Thanks for asking me, it's for you.

Colby:

but thanks for asking me.

Colby:

Yeah, thanks for asking me, but no, I can't sorry.

Christopher:

Well, so, honestly, this is a hot take that I don't think I've told anyone.

Colby:

Can't wait for this one.

Christopher:

A lot of the times I was so willing to switch with people because I was like this is just my bank, for I'll call it back if I need to call it back. Yeah, good karma, yeah, I'm like which I never needed to, yeah, and now I'm in management so I know it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. But I was like this is just, I'm keeping this tally.

Colby:

. Yeah, on the sentiment of like, going back to what you said, like you're not, you're, you don't live in a, in this, in a state where your family is. It's not your home state, right, it's, neither is it mine. So like I'm more apt to change major holidays than I am the minor ones because, like major holidays, if I'm off, like my close friends that I consider family here, most of them are from here, like me and you are, which is great, right, but most of my close friends are from here so they're with their families.

Colby:

So, like I'm not often like gonna have something to do on a major holiday on the minor holidays, though, when, like all, my friends are off and their families are having cookouts like, yeah, I'm gonna come crash that cookout, I'm gonna come um, but I'm not gonna like crash on their christmas dinner.

Colby:

So like if I, if there's someone at work that's like, oh, I wish I could have christmas off with my kids, or I really want to do like thanksgiving the family, I'm like I'll switch you, like no problem, like I'll work, I'll work that, I'll work that and get that holiday yeah, as we say, like,

Christopher:

and the census is 10 people,

Colby:

yeah, yeah. I'll do that for you.

Colby:

No sweat off my back Like, honestly, I'm out here, I was out here looking to switch for Christmas already, like I was like, hey, anybody want Christmas off. I know we're a little late in the game, but Thank you, my gosh, I'm not here. That's crazy, but it's also not my holiday. I was just going to pick it up, or?

Christopher:

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Colby:

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Christopher:

So one thing, and we kind of briefly touched on it already how do you survive a holiday?

Christopher:

shift

Colby:

. Well,

Christopher:

is there, like a Colby

Colby:

There is a RX.

Colby:

Yeah, let me write this out on script paper for you guys, okay, one planning in advance, potluck, this is important.

Colby:

This is going to get you through your day. Okay, we need to a week, at least a week, if not more, in advance start the potluck sign up, because not everybody works. You know sometimes this, sometimes this is the assigned holiday major holiday where you know that wage or PRN staff member.

Colby:

They don't always see. This is their holiday. They have to work, so they'll be there. So throw it up there in a week in advance so they don't come in barehanded. They can come in empty-handed to this potluck, although I will share with you. You're more than welcome to have it. But like, share with you, you're more than welcome to have it. But like you're gonna feel better if you contribute, so throw it out there, get it on the board. We're starting a potluck and if you think I did it for thanksgiving, you're wrong.

Colby:

I was the first one. I started that list,

Christopher:

did you really?

Colby:

Oh yeah,

Christopher:

I mean, I knew, I knew you had a potluck, but I didn't know you would that.

Colby:

I know it's too close. Um, yeah, no, I started it, it was me. I said alright also. I am a charger, so I feel like it's a little bit it's a small amount of my responsibility, like if I'm running the circus, let me get my ring later hat and get this going, okay.

Colby:

So potluck is super important. Okay, not as important, but, like Christmas, if I'm wearing Christmas, I love to wear a fun sweater. I like a holiday sweater puts a smile on my patients faces, makes my co-workers laugh and they can come for it. You want to bring the holiday cheer? I would like to remind you we did mention it before, but management's not in the house, except for this one, management's not in the house, except for this one.

Colby:

But yeah, yeah, but you're chill, management's not in the house and we're not doing like formal meetings, everything's on hold. So like this is this is we can. We can just have a nice relaxed day. Okay, last year I streamed movies on our flat screens is that franco probably?

Colby:

but again we had 10 patients yeah, it's not like y'all had we weren't yeah, we weren't like cranking busy and like ignoring people.

Colby:

We had 10 patients. They were chill, like they were eating food with us.

Christopher:

Um watching the movies too.

Colby:

They were watching.

Colby:

We had a couple of them in wheelchairs out there. Um, okay, yeah. So you want to prioritize your potluck? You want to, you know, come with holiday cheer. You want to stream movies if you have the capability. Christmas music, christmas music, that was yeah, yeah, holiday music, whatever, right, whatever your fancy is, I don't know. I feel like those are the major key points. I don't know, I feel like those are the major key points.

Christopher:

One thing that I realized last year that y'all did was, and I thought it was really cool. I did think it got a little much at times, but I still thought it was cool.

Colby:

Oh I know what you're about to say, go.

Christopher:

Elf on the Shelf.

Colby:

Yeah, we still have it. I think it's pretty cool.

Christopher:

Do you not like it? You sound a little annoyed by it.

Colby:

Um, I'm not. I am annoyed by it clearly, because I was just not annoyed by it. But no, I am kind of annoyed. But I think it's funny, on day shift I don't have the time, so I get I get annoyed because night shift it's like a night shift versus day shift, kind of like war, and I don't have the time on day shift to be messing around with some elaborate elf on the shelf scheme Like when I say elaborate.

Colby:

I mean currently the elf on the shelf is set up by night shift and it obviously, if you don't know, there's any fluid bag shortage related to hurricane helene that affected north carolina and took out the baxter plant. So it's just elaborate and I don't have the time on day shift to come up with an elaborate scheme for the elf. So it gets frustrating for me when I'm like running around and then I come in and I see like the elf is in a new position and it has a whole storyline and whatever.

Colby:

You're like, oh, like, oh. It's so cute and so funny and I'm like why weren't they working? What were they doing? Oh, they had enough time to be moving the elf on the shelf and creating a whole storyline for him. Why wasn't this X, y and Z done?

Christopher:

Okay, yeah, See that there. That's like I'm okay with the elaborate scheme.

Colby:

It's the elaborate scheme and story. It's the elaborate scheme being done, but things that are actually part of their job that's not getting done. That gets under my skin Also. I just think it's a huge waste of some of our resources, like right now we have a toilet paper snowman in the nurse's station, someone unwrapped three rolls of toilet paper and a round of gauze, and I just sound like a curmudgeon Scrooge right now and I'm like stop wasting supplies.

Colby:

But like come on and again. Just what it comes down to is I'm like you have time to do this, but I'm out here cleaning up your mess, right, or like picking up things that didn't get done, like I'm just a little sour, can you tell? I mean just a little sour, can you tell.

Christopher:

I mean just a little bit.

Colby:

But the sentiment is fun. It's cute, like sure. I think one thing our unit does really well is we decorate for Christmas, and I mean that in a way of like not using supply, but like we have garland, we have the best Christmas tree in the hospital.

Christopher:

Well, you haven't seen ours?

Christopher:

It actually doesn't.

Colby:

I'm coming up,

Christopher:

yeah, you should.

Colby:

I'm gonna go look at it.

Christopher:

It looks good,

Colby:

but how does it compare? Maybe it's good, but how does it compare?

Christopher:

No, no, no, I know.

Christopher:

I did say that yours was good, but I like ours. It's different than what it was last year.

Colby:

I'm excited to see it. Currently, though, acute cardiology we hold the title of best hospital transplant may take the crown this year. I don't know, tbd, it's not and again, we're recording this before new year's, so this is probably a little confusing about the time of year, but right, yeah, we're going back and forth.

Christopher:

Yeah, it's not the size of y'all's. I will say, that's one thing.

Colby:

We have a full six and a half foot pre-wet tree Cardiology heart failure themed. We saved all of our Bumix and Lasix bottles and poked paper clips in them and those are our ornaments on the tree. Yeah, that's the clever part. Y'all thought about that. In the past we've used telly strips with the patient information removed as garland. We haven't done that yet this year.

Christopher:

Yeah, share about. Yeah, um, and I think I think the potluck is a good idea. I I'm not a huge planner of potlucks, because I just don't, but multiple times people have been like oh, we're doing this. This is fun, though. Transplant is doing a holiday-themed team shirt.

Colby:

Oh

Christopher:

yeah so.

Colby:

For everybody to participate in or just working

Christopher:

the ones that are working.

Colby:

Is Transplant covering the cost or are people paying for their own?

Christopher:

I mean, I could foot the cost if I wanted to, but I'm not going to.

Colby:

I was just wondering if it was like the Christmas present for the unit.

:

No, there isn't, I think. Sorry, um. Overall, our manager is really good at doing a Christmas gift for the unit, yeah, and I guess really good at doing a Christmas gift for the unit, yeah.

Christopher:

And I guess my question is what do you think about giving your management a Christmas gift?

Colby:

That's a great question. Hot topic

Christopher:

yeah, yeah,

Colby:

hot topic. Um, I think there's nothing wrong with it if everybody on the floor can participate in. I think we do something called like a sunshine fund, where staff is encouraged not required, but encouraged that um a yearly or twice yearly donation to the sunshine fund, excuse me, um, and that's really just like, like just a fund of money. That way, like we have co-workers that are pregnant, you can have a baby shower or sent flowers for a funeral, um, so, in that, that's actually where we got the money to buy our huge tree that we have. Oh, interesting, yeah, interesting, yeah, it was out of the Sunshine Fund. So I think, if we're gonna, if the staff wanted to, using the Sunshine Fund is a good use of that money.

Colby:

If you want to get management again, personally, this year we're not. We're not doing anything. We've had a lot of management um, fluctuation or like people in and out the door, so no one's really worried.

Christopher:

Call it what it is, it's turnover

Colby:

, turnover. We've had management turnover quite a bit. So I feel like I actually really like my new manager, but I feel like, um, nobody knows them well enough, I guess, at this point yet to feel like you know that connection, where they're like, oh, we need to get a gift for them, you know, but I worked in other places where, like, we've given like something, like like a bottle of wine or like you know nothing too big, yeah, it doesn't have to be elaborate, yeah,

Christopher:

so, interestingly enough, I had mentioned that there is the belief that it is improper to gift up.

Christopher:

You gift down, oh okay.

Christopher:

Yeah, we can see that.

:

The main event should always gift to you and you can gift to level or below. So it's interesting. I don't know how I feel about that in terms of if I really think it's proper or not. I think if management's going through things or if management has been really good to you, I think it's okay to call it out. Actually, one of our nursing staffs and it wasn't a gift, it was just an email, sometimes just saying and it was during Thanksgiving the staff member was like I just wanted to let you know that I'm thankful for y'all.

:

Y'all do stuff behind the scenes that we don't see and I just wanted to say thank. Know that I'm thankful for y'all. Y'all do stuff behind the scenes that we don't see and I just wanted to say thank you.

Christopher:

That was an amazing gift

Colby:

yeah,

Christopher:

you know like

Colby:

, yeah, words of affirmation, right, love languages? No, I do. I think, yeah, I think you have something simple. It's just like a note or email. This can go very far. I think it, like you said, doesn't need to be elaborate, but it's also not required. I mean, again, it goes very far.

Colby:

Something small can go very far and I think, outside of gifts, I mean that could be said, like just when a patient says thank you so much for doing everything for me today. Like that will gas somebody up, like just think of that, that's awesome. But it's not required and um, there shouldn't be any pressure to do it. I do, um, I don't like our unit and again, probably related to management turnover and like not a strong connection to this, like staff, but we haven't gotten gifts either in many years. Again, not required, but something small goes along the way. Yeah, situation, um, but I've worked in other facilities where we got sick gifts. Oh, really, yeah, when I was, when I worked up north, um, we all got these beautiful like patagonia style. They weren't Patagonia brand, but like vests with the health systems, like logo on it and what unit we worked on. Very nice stuff,

Christopher:

wait, so did that come from?

Christopher:

management or did that come from the health system?

Colby:

That was from management

Christopher:

, really.

Colby:

Yeah,

Christopher:

wow

Colby:

, yeah, they were nice. They were not Patagonia brand, but they were Patagrion, patagrionian, Patagucci style style vests and they were. They were really nice. Um, and I've worked at other places where it was just like a small little like baggie of like candy chocolate whatever with like a thank you note and like hey, that's cool too.

:

Yeah, I think it goes both ways and Actually just being honest, this is my I guess, technically my second Christmas, or I had just gone through my second Christmas, but as ANM, I need to learn the whole. For those that don't know me, I'm not a huge Christmas person. I don't celebrate it as much as other people do. I don't turn on Christmas music before Thanksgiving. I turn it off day after Christmas. I don't, that's the window. And I'm not a huge gifter either. I do gift things, but I see it in terms of kind of like spicy food, like you need to sprinkle it in instead of just overwhelm yourself with spice. Like, yeah, just do a little sprinkle. You know, every so often, what about?

Colby:

so we talked about quite a few things revolving around surviving your holiday shift. Do you have anything?

Colby:

else that comes to mind, something that's like an absolute must for you to survive the day.

Christopher:

I think you really like it goes back to y'all are in it together. So, like anything that brings you together in some way the team t-shirts, the pop-ups, the dancing not dancing around, but like hanging around listening to Christmas music as you're doing your shift those are important and, honestly, I think, a way to survive your holiday shift. Let your family know what holiday you're working and find a way to adjust your family member's holiday plans so you can still go to them family members holiday plans so you can still go to them. Like, for example, transplant knows what holiday they will be on from now until eternity, unless we decide to change the holiday schedule rotation.

Christopher:

But even then, you can march yourself out and be like, okay, I'm working new year's eve, new year's day this year, I won't have to work it until 2028. So like, I will be working thanksgiving 2026. I won't have to work it until 2029. So like, go ahead and plan these things out so that you are able to hang out with your family, because these are times where you do hang out with your family. So I think that's another way to like you won't, you won't be missing out if you, if you planned your holiday schedule to hang out with your family on the 27th of december.

Colby:

Yeah, whether it's like, oh, you guys reschedule dinner and do it later in the evening when you get home, or you do it the next day or the day before, I mean, the reality is these days that there's not a lot of like families are all over the place. So I feel like it's more relatable for everybody these days to have to reschedule your holiday, right?

Christopher:

Well, I mean, that's all of CareerRx Then. I think that's all. You're okay with that?

Colby:

Yeah, I think we gave good tips and tricks there to survive your holiday shift.

Christopher:

Cool, if you happen to have different holiday survival tips.

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Christopher:

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Colby:

and YouTube.

Colby:

We're recording videos.

Christopher:

So I am very curious how do you get out of New Year's Eve New Year's Day all the time Consistently, yeah?

Colby:

Yeah, I kind of already alluded to it, but I think the highlight of working with a in a female dominated career is that, like moms want and dads want to be home with their kids, and if I know that someone, if I, if I look, I can always look ahead and see who's working it and and try and switch it, because most of the time parents want to be home with their kids on christmas and would be willing to work new year's instead. So I just I target the weak parents, okay, but I do target them. But it works on both our favorites. It's a win-win, it's a symbiotic relationship.

Christopher:

A symbiotic Well, yeah, because you're picking up their other major holiday, so I'm sure they're willing to do that. But have you?

Colby:

I've literally never been denied

Christopher:

, really,

Colby:

I just have a knack for asking the right person.

Christopher:

Will you go to a second one?

Colby:

Oh yeah, I'll find them.

Christopher:

Oh okay,

Colby:

it's not a one and done.

Christopher:

I thought this was a one and done,

Christopher:

a constant.

Colby:

I don't give up.

Colby:

I think I've only had to ask two people in the past, never more than two people. If I didn't nail it the first time, I'll definitely find it the second time. I'll definitely find it the second time. I'll definitely find you.

Christopher:

You're a little like shark that's going around the water like smelling blood yeah,

Colby:

I'm a predator, I'm looking for the weak ones I'm gonna get you that sounds so bad.

Colby:

But again I would like to reiterate that it is symbiotic relationship, like you're doing me a favor but I'm doing you a favor too, like yeah, and we just like. I think just the way health care is. You often can't take vacation during the holidays and I just you don't get enough days off in a row to make it worth traveling, for me to travel all the way home, because it's like at minimum an eight hour drive. So even if I'm off christmas eve, christmas, I usually have to work the day before christmas eve and the day after christmas so it's just not enough time to travel.

Colby:

So I'm like I'm always willing to like, let's do a switch up. What are you thinking like, what can I do for you?

Colby:

you can do for me, like

Christopher:

yeah, how do you feel like so to to. I want to hear your perspective of how do you feel when a coworker calls out on holidays, on major holidays.

Colby:

On major holidays.

Colby:

Someone calls out.

Colby:

Yeah, it's something serious, boss, that nobody's hurt or maimed or anything but like they called out because of an extenuating circumstance and not just they didn't want to come in.

Christopher:

I'm glad you have thought of this spirit.

Colby:

That's the only time. That's the only time I wouldn't immediately think like you shy Steve person. You got tough it out with the rest of us Because again, it's not toughing it out.

Colby:

I really enjoy it. I don't mind working, unless it's New Year's Eve, in which case I do not enjoy it. I haven't worked on New Year's Eve since probably 2014 into 2015.

Christopher:

Wow, so that's a long time?

Colby:

Yeah, I think the only time I worked a year was my first year out of school. Dang yeah, and I realized how much I disliked that, and you know,

Christopher:

I think I've asked a couple of people to switch off Thanksgiving, did I?

Christopher:

I don't know, I don't remember, but I will say in management's eyes, you calling off on a holiday, there's, there's, there's two major things managers hate you calling off on a holiday and you're calling off the day before or the day after your vacation time?

Colby:

yeah,

Christopher:

that's don't you dare do it?

Colby:

I did do it one time, but I was literally stuck in another country.

Christopher:

Yeah, that was.

Colby:

I was literally stuck in another country and if I had stayed on my original plane I would have made it home. But there was another extenuating circumstance. But I was like my sister is on a different plane, I'll switch so I can fly home with her. Let me be the good big sister I am. This is getting off topic, but I did call out.

Christopher:

Yeah, I mean it is a no-no.

Christopher:

I didn't realize how no-no it was.

Colby:

We know what you're doing. Not only management knows, everybody knows what you're doing.

Christopher:

We know, you know, see, we know, we know Because it was a thing we know you didn't have a seat, we know.

Colby:

We know your flight didn't get cancelled Liars. Even though it did happen to me, it legitimately did. I was stuck in Costa Rica. I was terrified I was in a three terminal. No, it was one terminal, but three little spots for the airplanes to come in Right right right In a field in Costa Rica, I was like.

Colby:

Same time I was like oh god, thank god she's not here by herself, because I would have been terrible, that would have been one, I know she would have freaked out like we have a very classic big sister, little sister, sister relationship where like I take charge and she's like I'm all over the ride, here we go, and I was just like imagining her there by herself, oh Lord. So it's a good thing I was there?

Christopher:

Yeah, it is. But yeah, I think that's one thing I wanted to make sure to kind of hone in on in terms of because I do have a different perspective now it's like if you call out yeah it's not cool, it's not cool, it's not cool and it's not something that, or majority of the times, well in the least in terms of our health system, we can't actually do anything about it, like we can't reprimand you.

Christopher:

But when that yearly evaluation comes around, we'll talk about it. We will talk about especially if it's a pattern, yeah, as it should be talked about.

Colby:

So I also think, um, if you're lucky and and census goes down like it most often does, there's like a good. Like I said, last year there were three of us, like two nurses, me and me, and a text. There was four people, everybody. I mean it's four people, four plus people, because also the text of four nurses and like two texts got called off. Yeah, canceled.

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The whole shit Right and if you're new more than likely, you're going to be the first one to get canceled, yeah.

Colby:

Because it goes by like if you've never been canceled before, like you're the top of the list to get canceled. Right, Like that sucks for losing out on your holiday pay, but you get to roll back over and go to sleep.

:

Go to sleep and enjoy the holiday with your family, yeah, surprise. And then do it again on the other planned day, exactly.

Colby:

So yeah. So does that wrap us up on our holiday episode? I think so.

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If there's any questions about holidays, or if you are like I really want to say something about Thanksgiving, because Christopher likes Thanksgiving, you know. Hit us up. But oh, if you have any good potluck recipes, send them in. Oh, interesting, yeah, yeah. What would you bring?

Colby:

Yeah, what would you bring? My classic last year, so Thanksgiving this year and then Christmas last year, go ahead. I made these brie cranberry bites, so it's like puff pastry, and then a little chunk of brie cranberry sauce and then rosemary, and I just baked them and they go like hotcakes. Baby, everybody loves them.

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Mine is vegan cinnamon rolls, and they are to die for I'm mastering the skill of making vegan cinnamon rolls and they are to die for I'm mastering the skill of making vegan cinnamon rolls. They're very good. Before we leave, I thought of one more thing Holiday party, you meant holiday party. What do you think about?

Colby:

that I love a good holiday party. It's tricky, gotta have the right balance of people there.

:

So okay, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Colby:

So it's a hit or miss, but if it's a good one, it's a good one. I think, okay, here's the flop and here's the success Flop. Don't do the holiday party in the hospital Bad idea. That is what our unit is doing this year. I'm not going. I was like I'm not coming to the hospital on my day off. You can't drink. Yeah, there's no, you need to be able to have. You need the opportunity to have a drink with your coworkers. It's true Once a year.

:

I don't know why I say that? Because I don't drink.

Colby:

You don't really drink, but I just feel like every good holiday party there's alcohol involved. For sure we could be over nursing as a whole can be a rowdy group and it's always a little more fun. But so flop is doing it in the hospital and if you don't have like a budget where you can like you need to go out just an impromptu one. Just be like let's all meet whoever is off on this day. Right, let's meet at this time at this place.

Colby:

You don't have to rent out a room it doesn't have to be a whole thing like again we said this it doesn't have to be elaborate, extraordinary, like it literally can just be like whoever's off on this day. If you want to come, let's have a drink, let's get appetizers, whatever, let's hang out for an hour or two. You could go as far. You have the budget, you have whatever you want to use your money for and say let's get a room at this place and we'll have. You know, it could be elaborate and I've been to some that are elaborate and a lot of fun and I've been to one that's like a co-worker, like used to do parties at her house for major and minor holidays, oh yeah, and we used to go to her house all the time.

Colby:

I only went to one of those. They were. They were fun, yeah, they were. They could get rowdy, um, but that was great. Like we would go there, like it could be at someone's house. It could just be like a casual meetup, whatever, but flop is don't do it in the hospital. That is I'm like so upset about this one. I found out last week that I was like because, like, they usually will send out an email, be like what day works for the majority of you? And that I was like because they usually will send out an email and be like what day works for the majority of you? And then it'll be like a little survey, like pick the day that you're available, so they'll pick the one that most people can come to. And I did and I just found out it was on that day. And then they're like, yeah, it's going to be in the room where we normally do our staff meetings. I said, excuse me, oh, oh, what.

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Terrible idea. You said count me out. Bad idea I'll be booked in this event. Yeah, With Trout.

Colby:

Yeah, I know you can just take Roman with you too. I'll go to the party, I'll get in your stead. You can have my share of the snacks. Yeah, that I can't eat. I'm like really upset about this one. So thanks for bringing it up. Oh God, no, I'm glad you did. Oh, okay, because I could like vent it out a little bit. Oh, okay.

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Yeah, no problem. What are you guys doing? Yeah, it's always at my manager's house. Oh, she does a big thing.

Colby:

And my gosh, I'm gonna crash that, Not on air, you know I had. Only I had heard about it. I mean it is a thing.

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Yeah, I had only heard about it and I'm like I want to go and I hadn't gone until last year because I always worked. I was like it usually is on a Friday because, I mean, it's a Friday, it gives you time for recovery on the weekend If you're off. If you're off and I usually, majority of the times when I worked on the floor, I worked Friday, saturday, sunday or Saturday, sunday, monday. So I was like I'm never going to get to go to any of these. But then I became the assistant nurse manager and I went to the first one and, my goodness to Colby's point, nurses are rowdy in general, but adding any type of libation, so yeah, once again, also to your point it's not at the hospital.

Colby:

It's not at the hospital and we need to be able to blow off a little bit of steam yeah, it's fun, it really is it's something.

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Even if your management doesn't set up the holiday party, you are empowered. I am empowering you to set up that holiday.

Colby:

I might set up my own holiday party on the same day, like anybody no okay, that, okay, that's very toxic, that is very toxic, that's toxic. I will not do that, but I will not be going to the hospital for a holiday party Any other day. You can do it, it's totally fine the day after, if you couldn't go last night. Tonight Tonight is the real party.

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The after party. Again, that's toxic. I'm not going to do that. All right, class dismissed. That's a wrap for today's session of Nursing Life 101. Happy New Year again and welcome to 2025. We hope you found some useful takeaways to bring back to the floor. Remember, nursing is a lifelong learning journey and we're here with you.

Colby:

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