Our work does a strict 12 hour shift, with your schedule put out 4 weeks in advance. The staff get the choice of picking their schedule and bidding on what they want. It usually gets approved and if it, then the schedule is tweaked to give everyone a chance at their own choices. It's a balance of skill mix, charge nurses, and staff nurses. I'm a staff nurse.
I was doing a major amount of overtime in the fall, up until the beginning of January. I did accept one night of overtime two weeks ago.
I just accepted tonight as a staff RN and accepted critical need pay (this is 10 dollars extra an hour in addition to your original pay). I also work Fri, SAt, Sun night shift. It will bring me to four nights in a row, 12 hour shifts.
My pay check will thank me, as will my savings account.
I'm always trying to get my husband to pick up shifts. He's pretty much set against it. He'll go in early or stay late but he doesn't want to go in when he was supposed to be off. I wish I could get over time. I definitely will work through lunch or bring work home if I need to but since I get a salary I don't get anything extra for it.
ReplyDeleteI have never been a salaried worker. How many hours past 40 have you put into a week? Is there any perks like going home early, or some kind of incentive to do more outside the normal 40??
DeleteI work 36 hours a week, and that is the norm. I do pick up overtime, but maybe two shifts in a 4 week period. Last year, I was pulling 48 hours every week, and getting ready to see changes at home. I was crabby, tired, and just unhappy. Now, I'm just tired.The first 40 for me are straight hourly rates. Anything over 40 is time and a half. Critical need is 10 dollars an hour plus your straight hourly pay.
I have never been a salaried worker. How many hours past 40 have you put into a week? Is there any perks like going home early, or some kind of incentive to do more outside the normal 40??
ReplyDeleteI work 36 hours a week, and that is the norm. I do pick up overtime, but maybe two shifts in a 4 week period. Last year, I was pulling 48 hours every week, and getting ready to see changes at home. I was crabby, tired, and just unhappy. Now, I'm just tired.The first 40 for me are straight hourly rates. Anything over 40 is time and a half. Critical need is 10 dollars an hour plus your straight hourly pay.
I don't work over 40 every week. But I will work through lunch or take work home a few times a month. My boss is pretty cool about letting me take a couple hours off here or there for doctor's appointments or whatever I need to take off for and she doesn't make me use personal or vacation time for them. So I figure it all probably works out.
DeleteBut, there's always more work that could be done and I would be willing to volunteer to take on even more projects and work more overtime if I knew I would get paid for it.