Nurses, Will you work OT for straight pay?

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  1. Will you work OT for straight pay?

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    • 286
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If you currently work OT for time and one half pay will you continue to work the hours for straight pay? What do you think of the new OT legislation and how it will effect nursing? What do you think of the exemptions for male dominated professions? ie, Police officers, firefighters and EMTs.

There is no way i'd work o/t for straight time. As it is nurses are short and we work as hard if not harder than some doctors,police and firefighters do. Stand up for what you believe in and say no.

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Nurses fall into the same category as EMT's and FIrefighters. Pay attention to which candidate supports us on this. One of them does! (hint... it's NOT Dubya)

Oh..you mean Dubya...the one who SUPPORTED the Nurse Reinvestment Act?

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I live and work in Charlottesville... L&D. No real OT at present because I'm .75%, but I'm FT school too so I guess I really am in OT. When I was working FT, it almost killed me. espec. in the summers. It's nice to have the $$, but I would prefer a life over money any day.

Where are you incentral valley? I live and work here and I put in more than my share of o/t.
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haven't read all the posts, so forgive me if this has been covered on this thread. am wondering about a new poll question: how many of you are willing to go on strike to maintain OT?

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haven't read all the posts, so forgive me if this has been covered on this thread. am wondering about a new poll question: how many of you are willing to go on strike to maintain OT?
I don't think it has been addressed, but could be wrong. It would be a very powerful thing if everyone would do it. Unfortunately it's not likely to happen as most nurses are not unionized and many are single breadwinners who won't risk the loss of pay. We could really control our own destiny for the first time in Nursing history should we stand up for ourselves... we are the largest portion of the healthcare industry.
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Not only a no, but hell no.....

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Specializes in Home Health Case Mgr.

Most nurse (vast majority) DO NOT fall under the same catagory as EMT/Firemen/Police. The ONLY nurses that may be civil servants are VA (veterans Hospital) nurses, civil service military nurses, state, university governmnet type nurses. If you work for a hospital, you probably are not civil servants...espescially HCA, Kaiser, Acension, Sisters of Charity, etc, etc. Most states, like Texas can work a fireman, policeman 171 hour cycle before OT kicks in. So all kinds of things apply, however, most nurses are not civil servants....Bottom line is....if your hospital wants to screw you they will...until the nurses can form some sort of vocal, cohesive code (like doctors who protect one another most of the time) we will continue to fight with our own employers over this. Stand tall nurses...DON'T WORK FOR STRAIGHT TIME UNLESS YOU HAVE TO........peaceout

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Oh..you mean Dubya...the one who SUPPORTED the Nurse Reinvestment Act?

Dubya supported the nurse reinvestment act, but like all of the other projects that he "supports," no money was allocated for it.

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I won't work overtime either, for straight pay.

However, I work for my state, so my compensation doesn't come in money.

I am compensated in overtime with more time off, at the rate of time and a half. Same difference, tho.

I get paid very well for my area, at 18.69 per hour, so I'm not complaining, because occassionally I choose to work a part time job, and with all the extra time off from my primary job, I can still pick up extra money on part time jobs.

However, if they reduce my compensation to straight time, I will refuse to stay.

The problem with that is, at my facility, we don't have to have a night shift anymore. The RN's take call at night for 4 1/2 hours, until the AM shift arrives. So when my shift leaves, we have no one to relieve us. If something happens at the end of the shift, we usually stay to wrap things up, which is where I pick up a little bit of overtime. Some times only 15 minutes, or it could take an hour. SO....if the state reduces us to straight time, and we refuse to stay, that means the RN's are gonna have to come take care of the situation, because I'm not staying for straight time. And I doubt that my co-workers will stay either. The RN's are not gonna like that, so I'm sure they will do everything they can to help us keep our compensation at time and a half. :uhoh3:

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