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...
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...
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...
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...