For travel nurses

A new contract, a new city, the same question from home

Travel contracts reset everything every thirteen weeks: new unit, new rota shape, sometimes a new time zone. The people who most want to know when you are free are the ones furthest away, and they are the ones with the least ability to find out.

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The schedules this actually has to cope with

Freeish is built around these, not around a nine-to-five with the occasional exception.

Thirteen-week contracts

Everything your family learnt about your schedule expires on a known date and is replaced by something else.

Three 12s, unit-dependent

The shape is familiar; which three, and whether they are days or nights, is not.

Time zones

A shift that ends at 19:30 local can be half past ten at home. Most calendars will happily show the wrong one.

Block scheduling to travel

Stacking shifts to free up a run of days for the drive or the flight home.

What it sounds like at home

“My mum works out the time difference wrong and calls while I am asleep.”
“Every contract changes the pattern and I explain it all over again.”
“My family cannot tell which days I could realistically travel home.”
“I stack shifts to get four days off and nobody at home notices until I mention it.”
“Being three states away makes "are you free?" a much bigger question.”

Where Freeish fits

Times are shown in each person's own time zone, so nobody has to do the arithmetic and nobody gets it wrong.

Import each new contract's schedule from a photo instead of retyping a quarter of a year.

Blocked-up days off are obvious to family planning a visit or a flight.

Family follow once and keep seeing your schedule through every contract change.

One week, start to finish

Nia, contract in Denver

Nia starts a thirteen-week contract two time zones from home.
She photographs the unit schedule on day one and imports the block.
Her mother, back east, sees the shifts converted to her own time zone automatically.
Nia stacks shifts to open up five days and books a flight home.
The next contract starts and her family follow the change without being told.

Questions travel nurses ask

Does it handle time zones?

Yes, and it is the reason this page exists. Everyone sees your schedule in their own time zone, so a 7pm shift does not get read as 7pm somewhere else.

What happens when a contract ends?

Import the next one. The people following you carry over — they do not need to do anything.

Can family follow without installing anything?

They can subscribe to a calendar link that drops your shifts into the calendar they already use, if you would rather not ask them to install an app.

Stop being the schedule. Start sharing it.

Now on iPhone — Android coming soon. Free to start. Import a photo of your next schedule and see who stops asking.