On site daycares. Shout out your hospital if they have one.

Does your hospital have a day care center onsite, or do you know of a hospital that has one? If so, do they operate nurse schedules or are they stuck on the 9-5 leaving employees that work outside those hours out of luck?

Would be interesting to see if its more of a trend in some areas of the country than others.

If you have used one before, how did it work for you?
My hospital, Harris Methodist Fort Worth and our sister hospital, Presbyterian Dallas have one. Ours at Harris is a shared daycare with the Cook Children's in Fort Worth. My children have always gone to our onsite daycare and I loved it. Knowing that they were a block away from where I work is very comforting. The hours are 0600-1930, Monday thru Friday. Way back in the day (about 20 years ago), the were open 24-7 and very few people took advantage of it so they went to the current schedule. I believe I remember seeing that another sister hospital of ours, Arlington Memorial, also has a daycare.

My hospital, Kaweah Delta, has one. We're in Visalia, California (Central CA). I don't have kids yet so I don't know much about it, but I've heard it's a great program. I've heard other nurses talk about having their kids there, so I'm guessing it works with a nurse's day schedule. It's called Kaweah Kids I'm excited about taking advantage of it someday.

We have one -- Minneapolis hospital. It is an excellent program and my daughter was there for awhile before she went to preschool. It is not 24/7, I believe it is 6AM to 6PM. I would use it again if I needed to. It goes through Preschool and takes kids as young as 6 weeks.