What does your facility pay for working night shift? (I define night shift as being 7P to 7A or 11P to 7A.)
I have interviewed a few nurses lately for our ICU and each have said they won't work nights. Well, no one works steady daylight so I can't hire new people that won't work nights and tell my faithful staff that they have to pick up more nights because the new people won't!
So...I'm thinking we have to make it more attractive to work nights. Some places offer a better differential for night shifts; I read on this board somewhere about people lining up to work nights because the pay was awesome. Our facility pays a $0.75 shift differential for nights (certainly not enough to be appealing).
What does your place do? Or what would you suggest we try to make night shift more appealing? (It's tough for some, I know; I personally HATE nights but always worked my share.)
Evenings is like $3.00/hr shift diff and nights is $3.75/hr shift diff. The extra pay is the ONLY thing that keeps me on nights...well, that and the fact that night shift people rule
I get a $4.00/hr differential for nights (either 7P-7A or 11P-7A. There are quite a few people who work straight nights, because we also get extra time off (I think it's 30 hrs/ year) for vacation for working straight eves or night shifts. We can also cash this out, or use it when we wish after we've worked 6 months of straight nights.
We get $2.00 hr diff for nights. We get $1.00 /hr for charge and also if we do triage.
I'm in agreement with above poster about rotating shift - yuck!!! I have worked rotating shifts before and hated it. I quit because of that - it was horrid.
Advertise for straight nights - then people will know up front what is expected!
Hey thisnurse! You mean you guys don't also get free footrubs and pedicures while you chart, like we do?
But seriously....
When I work 7p-7a, I get a $2.50/hr differential for 7-11, and a $3/hr differential for 11-7. Our night shift is pretty well staffed. Day people mostly rotate to evenings.
$1.10 for 3-11; $1.40 for nocs. Would do it with out the extra pay for a lot of reasons, ie; no PITA management around, no road trips, most patients sleep more, staff is more laid back and not so frigen anal about every little trite detail.
At my hospital we make $4.50 per/hour dif for weeknights & $6.50 per/hour on weekends. We actually get holiday pay of time & a 1/2. 3 holidays in the last few months has been great.
When I was on Staff we got 0.55 for 3-11 and 2.55 for night, these were per hr. Also got an additional 5.00 per hr for weekend diff, all shifts- Friday from 7p-Sun 7p-7a.
I do agency now and we get whatever the institution we're at pays. Usually 0.50 per hr for Sat and Sun
Here in north uk , I get paid an extra 12 + 1/2 % of my wages if I work more than a third of my shifts as nights. I also make a claim for a paid mealbreak as I cant leave the ward and I am the only RGN on duty.
This is great info, guys! Thanks...will be printing this all out and taking it to management!
As for not rotating shifts...all the hospitals around here do it. I guess there are not enough people to work steady nights. LTC offers steady shifts but not the hospitals. I would love to have steady shifts--I know I HATE rotating myself. But it also has its advantages. When I worked LTC, there were always "shift wars." Day shift blamed night shift for something, evenings blamed days, and nights blamed evenings. When you rotate, everyone knows what the other shifts are doing and no one can say "Your shift is always easy; my shift is always difficult." While there is some small degree that still exists (we do have steady nightshift people), sharing the shifts helps to defuse a lot of that.
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County hospital were I work it's $2.00 for 3-11 and $2.25 for 11-7, we get an extra 1.25 for weekends.