Every weekend job?????

[arw979]

Hi everyone,

I am from north mississippi and work every weekend @ a LTC facility. I work 7Ato7p every Sat And Sun and get paid for 32 hours. Is this something that most place do when hiring weekend staff? I have mostly heard of 24 for 32hours. I do get paid 2$ an hour more then weekly staff. This place does use agency and most of the time I am training new agency nurses to the floor and taking care of my 32 out of 60 residents. We do have a RN in the building mostly agency that does nothing besides seat at the desk and I have to train the ropes if something happens. I get no benefits. Any feed back would be helpful. THANKS Don't get me wrong I love my residents and they are the reason I stay!!!!!!!

[hogan4736, BSN, RN]

I did two 16s for 40...6a-10p...

loved it...

[TheCommuter, BSN, RN]

For 2 years, I worked weekend doubles (6am to 10pm) at a nursing home. I worked 32 hours on the weekend and received pay for 40 hours, while having Monday through Friday off. Unlike your place of employment, my workplace had benefits.

[racing-mom4, BSN, RN]

Hi I work every Sat/Sun 7p to 7am, and get paid for 36 hours a week. So basically time and a half for the 24 that I work. I also get my night shift diff for those hours physically worked, the extra 12 is just straight time.

I pick up one day a week so my check reflects 48 hours even though I only worked 36. Love getting paid to not work!!!

Oh ya and I get full benefits and PTO time for the time I actually physically work.

[mom2michael, MSN, RN, NP]

We have a weekend option where a person works 48 hours every 2 weeks but they are paid for 72 hours. Nights it's Th,F,S,Su every other weekend. Day shift does F, S, Su, M every other weekend. Full benefits, shift diffs, ETO accural, etc. Pretty sweet deal really. Someone has to die though to get one of those shifts......

[husker_rn, RN]

I work Fri-Sat-Sun 7a-7p 36 hours a week get paid 40. The down side is if I work over I don't get overtime until I work over 40 hrs.

[TiffyRN, BSN, PhD]

The program in our hospital works by just adding a differential to your base pay. It's too complicated to get into too much. It's actually pretty feather-legged. It was pretty much designed to hush us up because a harshly competitive hospital just around the hospital was offering a really nice weekend plan and our hospital was tired of being told how they weren't being competitive.

I used to work at an actual Baylor hospital (the originators of the "Baylor plan") and the weekend plan worked differently even in different areas of the hospital. I've found that what it comes down to is just the individual deal you work out with your manager.