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Baylor shift calendar 2028
The Baylor plan is a weekend program, named for Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas, which began paying nurses close to a full week's wage for weekend-only work in the early 1980s. You work Saturday and Sunday, every week, usually 12 hours at a time, and the weekdays are yours.
It is the mirror image of every other pattern on this site: zero full weekends off, all 52 worked, in exchange for 260 free weekdays in 2028. Hospitals and care facilities use it to hold weekend staffing steady, and many pay a premium that brings two weekend shifts near full time pay.
Suits people with weekday commitments: study, childcare, a second job. You give up every weekend, permanently, for five free weekdays.
Quick facts
- Cycle length
- 7 days
- Shifts per cycle
- 2 on, 5 off
- Shift length
- 12 hours
- Hours a week
- 24.4 on average
- Full weekends off in 2028
- 0
Baylor weekend, days, 2028
The grid shows a crew whose cycle starts January 1, 2028; other crews run the same rotation offset by a few days. Baylor is locked to Saturday and Sunday by definition, so there are no offset crews: this grid applies to everyone on the program. To line the pattern up with your real start date, use the interactive shift pattern visualizer.
The 2028 numbers
Days
Full weekends off
0
Jan 1 crew; all crews: 0
Night shifts
0
106 day shifts
Recovery days
0
no night shifts to sleep off
Longest stretch
2
consecutive shifts
Nights
Full weekends off
0
Jan 1 crew; all crews: 0
Night shifts
106
0 day shifts
Recovery days
52
first day off after nights
Longest stretch
2
consecutive shifts
How many hours is Baylor in 2028?
Worked in full, Baylor in 2028 comes to 106 shifts of 12 hours: 1,272 hours, an average of 24.4 hours a week across the whole year. The nights variant works the same dates and the same 1,272 hours; the difference is that every one of them runs overnight. These figures assume every scheduled shift is worked: no overtime, no swaps, no sick days, no leave.
Put Baylor 2028 in your calendar
One file, every shift of the year, ready for Apple Calendar, Google Calendar, or Outlook. Shifts import with default times: day shifts 7am to 7pm, night shifts 7pm into the next morning (7am). Edit the times after import if your site runs different hours.
That file is the textbook rotation. Your real roster has swaps, overtime and cover shifts that no pattern predicts, so photograph it with Lumical and every shift lands in Apple Calendar. We make Lumical, so read this with that in mind.
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A perfect rotation fits in a calendar file. A real roster does not.
Swaps, overtime, and holiday cover break the pattern. Reading a real roster is what the Lumical app does: photograph it and every shift lands in your calendar, overnights included. We make it, so weigh the recommendation accordingly.
Common questions
What is the Baylor shift?
A weekend-only schedule from healthcare: two 12 hour shifts every Saturday and Sunday, on days or on nights, usually at premium pay. The name comes from Baylor University Medical Center, which popularized the plan.
How many weekends off does Baylor give you?
None. The plan is the weekend: all 52 weekends of 2028 are worked. In exchange every weekday is off, 260 of them this year on the days variant.
How many hours a year is Baylor?
1,272 hours: 106 shifts of 12 hours across the year's 52 weekends, which averages 24.4 hours a week. Premium pay or not, on paper it is part time hours.
What changes on Baylor nights?
The dates are identical, but a Sunday night shift ends Monday morning. Every Monday becomes a recovery day, 52 of them in 2028, so the nights version quietly costs you Mondays as well as weekends.
Does the Baylor plan rotate?
No. It is tied to Saturday and Sunday by definition. There are no offset crews and no drift; the calendar on this page is the same for everyone on the program.
How many days will you work on Baylor in 2028?
106 shifts, which comes to 1,272 hours at 12 hours each. That leaves 260 days off. The count moves by a shift or two depending on where your crew sits in the cycle on January 1.
How do I get this calendar into Apple Calendar?
Download the .ics file on this page and open it on your iPhone or Mac. Apple Calendar offers to add the whole year in one go. That covers the textbook rotation. A real roster has swaps, overtime and cover shifts, and for that we make Lumical: photograph the roster and every shift lands in Apple Calendar. We make it, so read that with the obvious bias in mind.