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1. Paid Report Time

   cdods replied to cdods's topic in General Nursing

   Department of labor doesn't mandate that they give you a lunch period. They mandate that if you are not paid for a lunch period, you are relieved of your nursing duties for that period of time. Like I said this place is arguably budget centric and no...

2. Paid Report Time

   cdods replied to cdods's topic in General Nursing

   I guess that I wasn't clear in terms of our shifts, I apologize. We are on an 80 hour two week schedule. During which time we work 6 - 12 hour shifts and an 8 hour shift to equal a total of 80. The lunches are not worked into the schedule due to requ...

3. Paid Report Time

   cdods replied to cdods's topic in General Nursing

   We are a small ICU. We are staffed with only two nurses for 6 beds and telemetry monitoring. We are the code team and medical emergency team as well. So they cannot ask us to take a 30 minute lunch and have no nursing duties as someone has to be avai...

4. Paid Report Time

   cdods posted a topic in General Nursing

   I'm curious what other hospital policies are or if there are any specific labor laws on hospitals being required to pay for time during hand off report. A little background on this, the hospital I currently work at would pay for 30 minutes of shift o...