Not getting paid to chart?

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Has anyone ever heard of not getting paid to chart? Every nurse I've ever worked with doesn't clock out until they finish charting. So if you had a crazy shift and have 2 hours of charting at the end you basically clock 14 hours. Are there places that don't allow this?

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Specializes in OR, Nursing Professional Development.

Management will strongly discourage OT because of the cost, but the labor board will take issue with unpaid work. It may come back in performance evaluations related to time management if it's a habit and not the exception.

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Specializes in retired LTC.

Now if one is being paid as salary and NOT hourly, moot point.

My concern for those 2 hours would be one's liability if there's any hand-on pt activity or even solitary activity like if the employee were to fall.

And then if the firebells ring off, it's always been 'all hands on deck' to respond. How would one explain just sitting there ignoring everything else going on?

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Specializes in Med-Surg, Oncology, School Nursing, OB.

I did work at a hospital where I was told by other nurses I might get in trouble for charting after my shift on the clock. The way I saw it, charting is part of my job that's required and if I'm having to catch up on charting after work I am staying on the clock. I never got in trouble for those times. It wasn't every shift and it was usually less than 30 min.  However there was a nurse who got in trouble for needing to stay after for two whole hours every single shift and they were concerned with her time management. 

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I got in the habit of charting as I go so I rarely had to stay hover but yes you should get paid for staying

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