The hospital I work at schedules us 4 days on 3 days off. It is nice to have 3 day weekends (Wednesday, Thursday, Friday) but on the days we do work we are working 12 hour days - night shift. Gets a...
stevethenurse replied to stevethenurse's topic in General Nursing
@bittybritty - I will get an employee handbook - I think that's a good idea. @nurse2033 - class action makes me a bit nervous. I guess I will call an attorney and see if we should be getting OT and...
stevethenurse replied to stevethenurse's topic in General Nursing
@joanna73: Are you being punished??? That is just crazy. Frankly, I am afraid that if I complain they will pull something like that on me. I know that when people have complained about harassment...
stevethenurse replied to stevethenurse's topic in General Nursing
THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! I never really thought of overtime. I just did a google search and it looks like you are right. I guess this is the rule for California:...
stevethenurse replied to stevethenurse's topic in General Nursing
48 hours. I wish I was getting overtime - that might make it a bit more tolerable. By the 4th night we are all zombies. Doesn't help patient care, but somehow the ease of scheduling us is more...