Re: Active Duty Shifts and culture
Hello,
I actually work as a GS civilian in an Army hospital. I can tell you this...We do most everything the same as civilian hospital (we take report at the table etc) the only difference is that military hospitals tend to be more stringent than do the local civilian hospitals in their policies. This can make life working in a military hospital a little better than in a civilian hospital. The downside is that our active duty tend to work more hours than the civilian nurses, this is because there is no overtime paid to military nurses, no comp time, no nothing. If one of our civilian nurses calls out sick most definitely they will being a military nurse in before they pay overtime to another nurse to take the shift. In the military there is no calling out sick unless you go to sick call and get excused.
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