Wage Freeze

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My hospital anounced this week that there will be a 18 month freeze on wages and bouses. They also are eliminating reimbursment for conferences etc. This they say is due to the ecomony. I can understand it partly,

but why not call it an indefinite time period instead of 18 months. Any other hospitals doing like wise

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Not yet, but I fear it's coming. They already have put a freeze on all non-patient care overtime, like supply and billing.

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Specializes in Adult Acute Care Medicine.

Thankfully, not (yet) at my hospital. I just got a 6% increase...but our hopital does have a "hiring freeze" for nurses. I think this means that some of us will (sometimes) have to be mandated, do overtime etc...not sure how that will save money??

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they probably said 18 months instead of "indefinitely" so that they could budget. makes it easier to promise the money will go to other places if you know for sure where it's not going for a set period of time. 18 months is 6 fiscal quarters...isn't it? bureaucracy is not my strong suit.

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I think we work for the same facility! I'm kind of curious to see what happens at the end of the 18 months.

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Specializes in ICU/Critical Care.

My hospital annouced that wage increases are on hold until July but we will be getting a bonus this month, around 300 bucks.

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Specializes in Med Surg/Tele/ER.

We did not get a raise this past year for the same reason. We cannot use any PRN people unless absolutely necessary....no OT....but I am full time & they are constantly calling me to come in to cover for call ins....no thanks!

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Specializes in Cardiac, Hospice, Float pool, Med/Peds.

No raise this last year and insurance went up, so I am making less money this year... At least I have a job and we have been getting extra hours due to high census with a $9.00 bonus per hour... Take what we can...;)

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Specializes in ob; nicu.

We have a hiring freeze as well. The hospital has been using agency nurses to fill in the gaps though, and I don't understand how that's cost effective. Why not pay the already employed nurses overtime? We are about to get our annual raises, but everyone is anticipating that it won't be much and blame it on "patient satisfaction scores" rather than personal performance.

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Specializes in critical care; community health; psych.

Our hospital (a big hosital system) has announced layoffs of staff nurses and ancillary personnel to begin in the next two weeks. Meanwhile, a new nurse just came off orientation on our unit this week. We had a wage freeze that went straight to layoffs but we're still hiring?

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Specializes in Critical Care,Recovery, ED.

Curious... to those posters who have wage freezes, no OT, hiring freezes et. al. do you work for a for profit or a non profit hospital? Just trying to see if there is a big difference between the two and if there is which one is doing more retrenchment.

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Specializes in Surgical Telemetry.

We don't have a wage freeze as of yet but NO overtime, no agency, no per diems. We also have a hiring freeze and transfer freeze (I'm not sure how that helps) but our unit is short because there were 4 full-time RN positions open and noone was hired for them and now they can't. And then they claim no OT and all around we get the shaft. But then they call me in at least once a week.

I also feel bad for the new grads, we have a hospital-based RN program and they won't be able to hire anyone. All those new grads not able to get jobs. It certainly won't be that a grad can go anywhere they want, they'll have to take what they can get.

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