So our hospital has recently started cracking down on incidental overtime. We are now required to fill out a slip, put a reason, sign and have the charge nurse sign anytime we are clocking out after 730. But they make it near impossible to get through report in that amount of time. At the beginning of each shift we have to have a meeting with all of the staff that day which is supposed to last only a few minutes, but many times lasts almost 10 minutes. They are also requiring us to do bedside reporting, which takes time to walk each nurse to each patient, talk to the patients (also doing things for them when you come in the room which you can't control if they need something), then give report with them asking questions and interrupting the report, then going through the charts of each patient with each nurse and signing it off. Most nights, even if I have nothing else left to finish up before I go, I'm not done with report until 745 and it has been later than that occasionally. Management won't listen to our concerns. Well, almost everyone had to fill out a form last night and I know it will be like that most nights. I also just found out that depending on how many of these slips we have, we could lose our annual raise/bonus. Anyone else dealing with this? Every day it seems like they are giving me more and more reasons to leave....So tired of it.
So our hospital has recently started cracking down on incidental overtime. We are now required to fill out a slip, put a reason, sign and have the charge nurse sign anytime we are clocking out after 730. But they make it near impossible to get through report in that amount of time. At the beginning of each shift we have to have a meeting with all of the staff that day which is supposed to last only a few minutes, but many times lasts almost 10 minutes. They are also requiring us to do bedside reporting, which takes time to walk each nurse to each patient, talk to the patients (also doing things for them when you come in the room which you can't control if they need something), then give report with them asking questions and interrupting the report, then going through the charts of each patient with each nurse and signing it off. Most nights, even if I have nothing else left to finish up before I go, I'm not done with report until 745 and it has been later than that occasionally. Management won't listen to our concerns. Well, almost everyone had to fill out a form last night and I know it will be like that most nights. I also just found out that depending on how many of these slips we have, we could lose our annual raise/bonus. Anyone else dealing with this? Every day it seems like they are giving me more and more reasons to leave....So tired of it.
Seems like this is a convenient way to not given raises/bonus....
Don't know about your hospital, but mine has been doing this for a few years now, and it has not been a problem. Yes, it is a way to save money...but it is also a way to effectively to stop those nurses who purposely don't even sit down to chart until 5 or 6 and are routinely not clocking out for an hour or more after their shift ends. You can make a lot of money doing that! Management at my hospital knows that you will not always be able to clock out on time, and when we are late, we write it on an edit log and the charge nurse signs it. The managers know when a shift has been crazy and there hasn't been any fallout from the practice. We call it "dribble time" by the way.
MagsMom
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Seems like this is a convenient way to not given raises/bonus....