Do you get paid to stay late and chart?

[Neywel120]

I'm just really curious to know if you get OT pay to stay longer to chart and/or do assessments on patients and give report? If not, how do you feel when you have to stay an extra hour or more after your shift end when you are not getting paid for it?

I currently work a minimum wage job and if you stay even 2 minutes late you are not getting paid for it. So if I have a customer who just showed up with no else to help him/her my manager still expect me to help the customer for free. This makes me feel like a slave of course, but I'm not sure if I would feel the same if I was a nurse to stay and help a patient for free and it's why I'm asking the Allnurss members on the topic.

[eatenbylocusts]

I am truly amazed that anyone could go more than a few months without getting some overtime. Even when things are running smoothly and everyone has been pre-medicated some need always comes up at change of shift. Do you get off at midnight when most people should be asleep?

[A.Robins]

I'm salaried (NHS in England) but we quite often end up staying late/missing some of or all of breaks to make sure charting/patient care/handover is achieved, and that has been on all three inpatient units I've worked on. It's something we have pointed out recently for my current job, as management is now trying to make us do extra shifts because they say our normal shifts don't add up to enough hours, but we just get told we have to prove beyond reasonable doubt that it's not just our bad time management or they won't take it off our owed hours.