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1- My inquiry: my facility offers a bonus for SOME shifts when they are in dire need of coverage. $150 for a 12 hour shift, and then accordingly for less hours picked up.
What type of bonus do you see at your place?
2- when Mandated, do you receive a stipend/bonus? At my facility we do not, we just get forced to worked.
Specializes in orthopedic/trauma, Informatics, diabetes.
We have incentive pay for hard to staff units. Not mandatory, but one of the units offered $20 extra per hour. If you pick up a night, you get that differential. Other units got incentive for $16. This is for RNs. The NCAs were offered $5, I believe. I have been doing one extra shift each pay period (overtime) so it has been a bit of a financial benefit for me.
So far, I think the extra money is supposed to be available through August. Not sure if they will extend.
I'm only a CNA, and I've been working at a hospital for about 4 months. We have become extremely short staffed on CNAs, which means the nurses are doing primary care on 2 of their 4 patients. (CV Telemetry floor), and my patient assignments are really heavy in order to compensate for that. Luckily, right before I was hired, they fought for a ratio of no more than 10 patients, but it still can be rough when 50-80% are total care, incontinent, turn 2qh, etc.
For the first time I got message from the manager asking if I could pick up 12 hours for a small $75 bonus. I was surprised as I've never heard them doing this before for CNAs. .
I was unavailable anyways, but I wouldn't pick up for that amount. I love my unit, but even with good body mechanics, I am leaving work in pain lately due to heavy assignments and it's not worth it to me.
SmilingBluEyes
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Yes a 1000x to this. We are human too.