[steelersRN]

Can you tell me if you work straight 12 hr shifts, is this considered full time with all the full time benefits at your hospital and do you get paid hourly or are you salary?

[jamonit]

i work 6 12 hour shifts in a 2 week pay period. yes, it is considered fulltime. i like the 12s because sometimes i can get quite a few days off in a row.

[jamonit]

p.s.--i am hourly, thank god. some 12 hour shifts can end up lasting 13-14hr, depending on if there's one of those lovely early morning admits.

[Agnus]

The length of the shift is not what determines if you are working full time. It is the total number of hours in a week or pay period that determine that.

I have worked 12 hour shifts and it was full time. I work 12 shifts now and it is not. The difference is my total hours is a lot less.

Generally 60 hours a 2 week pay period is full time.

Your schedule might be work 2 days every onther week and three on the alternates. This ads up to 60 hours per pay period and it is full time.

I work straight 12 hr shifts but I do not work full time.

[vamedic4]

I work 3 12 hour shifts per week, or 72 hours per pay period, and it is considered full time. As a tech, I can't work 6 12s in a row and have 8 days off, because I'm paid OT after 40 hours, as opposed to RNs at my facility, who are paid OT after 80 hours in 2 weeks. This gives them more flexibility with regard to scheduling.

And I wouldn't go back to working 8 hour shifts...ever.

[mom2michael]

We work 12 hour shifts.

Anything over 40 hours a week is considered OT.

Full time at my facility is 64 hours a pay period UNLESS you are a weekend option person, then you are considered full time regardless of how many hours you work a pay period.

[jmgrn65]

Originally Posted by steelersRN

Can you tell me if you work straight 12 hr shifts, is this considered full time with all the full time benefits at your hospital and do you get paid hourly or are you salary?

well it isn't how many hours a day you work it is how many in a week you work. Usually at least in ohio 32 hours or more is considered fulltime, so if you work 3 12's a week than its full time.
Bedside nursing is hourly. I don't know of any nurse that would work the bedside on salary.

[rn-jane]

At our hospital you only need 32 to get benefits, but need to work 40 per week for overtime. Our overtime though for every 4 hours that you fill in is double time, 35.00 bonus pay and 4 hours of vacation time, so it pays to do overtime. If we happen to stay over because of charting ect, it is just time and 1/2.

[steelersRN]

So if you are 12hr shifts how do you all make up the other 4hrs a wk? How do you all account for educational classes, seminars, etc.. are these scheduled for you and are you paid for every extra hour you contribute to the hospital by doing extra work besides bedside nursing?

[rn undisclosed name]

I work 3 12 hour shifts a week and that is full time. I have 72 hours/pay period. I don't have to make up the extra 8 hours to be considered full time. I believe that is how it is at most hospitals.

Another hospital I worked at had nurses who did 72 hours/pay period and that was not full time at this specific hospital. If they wanted to be full time they had to also work an 8 hour shift every pay period to be considered full time. There was another hospital in this same group that didn't have that requirement and you were full time with 72 hours. What I mean by same group is that is the same group that owns these hospitals.