Salary positions

i don't know the answer to your question. But I am new to this website. How do you post questions?

The 2 unit managers in my facility are salaried. They are LPNs. I am a salaried RN who does MDS. The 3 of us work Mon.-Fri. and have some flexibility, i.e. leave early / come in late for a doctors appt. but can't take too much advantage of it.....Also, the 3 of us share call, so every third weekend, we might have to go in and push the med cart if more than 1 callout. ( and no pay, no comp time... ) The facility "owns" you 24/7, in reality. But the 3 weeks paid vacation and free health care make it tolerable.

Salaried STINKS.

I used to feel sort of demeaned getting paid by the hour; but after I spent a few years being on-call 24/7/365---even on my vacations!!---and working 50-60 hour weeks while getting paid for 40, I will never look down my nose at the hourly wage system again.

'nuff said!

I am hourly right now...but I know they will make me a salried employee at some point. This last vaccation I took, I had my laptop with me, and ended up having to work a little from Antiqua. (resetting passwords in the middle of the night, fixing a few LAB tests that bombed out in the computer system. answering emails.

I wanted to negotiat my contract to see if I can stay an hourly employee. Some of our Nurse Managers have clauses where if they cover staff, they are hourly. If they do management stuff, they are salery. It probably depends on what they have done in the past at your facility. Doesn't hurt to ask!

Myself, ADON, Ed nurse and 3 Nurse Managers are all salaried. We happened to change our schedules last fall and went to 4 - 10's. I haev everyone on the honor system. You come in when you want and know what is expected of you when you are here. Very seldom does anyone go over 42-45 hours per week. My Ed nurse and I share call a week at a time. I have 5 RN's that rotate weekend for call-ins. That means they go in if an RN or nurse is needed. I average 1-2 calls a month. My weekenders go in less than an average of once per year. They do get comped 4 hours for being on-call for the weekend. And take off during the week if they go in besides the 4 hours.

To be management and salaried, you need to be able to discipline and hire/fire in our state.

I'm sure that an LPN can be salaried. I would think it would make no difference btwn LPN and RN for this matter.

BTDT as an RNAC, acting DON, and unit manager. I went well over my 40hr week, but it was very flexable in every position. I would come in at different hrs and technically be able to take comp time to compensate for the overage.
In a way it is nice to be able to flex your hours, but the downside is the overtime hrs. I def made less those yrs than an hrly employee would have made.