Public holiday arrangements for nursing & midwifery

This is a user-friendly version of a guide created by Queensland Health and agreed with the QNMU. This information sheet contains additional content to the official guide and has issues grouped under some different headings for ease of use. The key to successfully negotiating arrangements for public holidays is to plan ahead! This applies to employees and managers. This guide and those linked to it should help you do that successfully, so you should know if you will or will not be working long before each public holiday comes up. There are different arrangements for public holidays for nurses and midwives working in QH, depending on where you work. This information aims to address the most common of these.