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Case Study: Thanksgiving Holiday Shift Nurses

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The nurse manager made the schedule in advance for the Thanksgiving holiday schedule and a conflict came up between two day shift nurses. Both of them had specifically requested the holiday season off earlier in the year. But seeing that one of the nurses had taken the Thanksgiving holiday off last year in which she forgot, the nurse manager produced a copy of her approved requested time off to remind her. This clarified and corrected the scheduling conflict and the day shift got covered for the

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