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It sounds like they've found some sort of loophole but man is that snake-y!!! Anything over 40 hours at my work is work. Even if it's watching a DVD for continuing education for 4 hours. Ridiculous! !!

I'd be more worried about your inability to handle pressure. You'll be disrespected a million more times in your career by coworkers, bosses, patients, and their families. As a nurse you're in charge, you can't be immature enough to walk off. It depends is clocking in technically taking an assignment since you're there, the shift before you could reasonably expect to leave, and you could reasonably be expected to take patients? I don't know your states laws. Any trouble you get in with BON will of course affect your future as a nurse. You know that. That's why you're here.

I extorted nothing. I actually had a better offer at my day job and they offered to give me that pay but less hours to stay. How is that extortion? Extortion is I have you on tape in bed with a patient so I want 1000 an hour. Geez. Update: still there. While they surely probably could shuffle new graduates through I think they're slightly more cautious than that because when people get in there and see what it's like having 60 something pts alone they usually just don't come back. Ideally, I'd love to give a notice. It doesn't come from being unprofessional or inexperienced. ..but if you have a family to take care of and you're not able to pay the bills and something comes along that pays em...you take it. Notice or not. That's just me. I'm not loyal to the point of shooting myself in the foot.

I don't think the pay structure is fantastic either. Frankly I have no idea why any rn's work there. They are not our supervisors and we technically don't "have" to have them there because it's non skilled nursing, just psych 60+ patients and one nurse works by herself each shift and supervises every non nursing employee. LPNs do their own admissions the don, the rn, signs off on them. They don't pay rn's much more sadly because in this setting they're not much more "useful" for the purpose of having a nurse here they just have to be what they consider to be competitive so obviously they have higher pay. We get at 3% merit based pay if we get one at all per yer. And no its not the owners making the decision. I think they are smaller but still own like 50 facilities across the country. I'd be offended as an rn working there period!!I had to burn a bridge either way. I'm really bummed about having to do it. The other company was wonderful. I just was stuck in a damn ed either way position

Job hunting now just to cya lol

Yeah corporate was in town and so many people were out we had one girl literally work 20 hours in a row before I agreed to come back. I imagined they'd have paid me 100 an hour to come back at the time. LPNs make 25, RNs make 27 and I'm the only one that makes 28. I don't know why I imagined they'd be cool with it later. I've always worked hard even in my minimum wage days. I don't imagine thers ever enough work I could do to make them feel it's adequate now that the need isn't so high

I am a relatively new grad with 4 months working at an ltc. They have only been giving me 16 hour weeks even though I was offered a full time position; so I took a second job. They offered me a dollar an hour more, day shifts, and 42 hours after 3 weeks of working part time days. The caveat was I was replacing someone who left without notice so I couldn't give notice to my night job. They were very upset because we're a small staff and 2 other nurses were on vacation so they asked me what it would take to stay. I requested 36 hours and a 3 dollar an hour raise. Why not shoot the moon since I was leaving anyway? Well they agreed to my terms. Before I tried to quit I was being constantly praised, given thank you notes, gift cards for all my extra work. Now they are constantly calling and texting me that I've done little things wrong and threatening that they expect a whole new level of work from me because of my new pay and I'm afraid now that they're not desperate for cover they're going to find any reason to fire me. Did I make a mistake staying? Should I start looking for something else just in case? I think I really didn't think this one through.

My caregivers say foolish immature stuff like this all the time. I'm in a lock down as well. It's hard to find employees at that level with a good professional attitude. Now if someone actually hit someone heads would roll...but you hearing someone saying that and waiting 3 hours to report it? I guess I feel like we're missing something here

Lpn, diploma, new grad. 2 jobs: charge nurse psych facility 24.50/ hr no differential double time OT. Skilled home care 25.50/hr 3.00 weeked/night differential +5 an hour for each patient added to monitor at once. Scottsdale, az

No offense but this is clearly a comment made in ignorance from someone who clearly has zero medical knowledge. Post on all nurses when you're taking classes, in clincals, have a license...

Or in skilled or rehab care....residents. .ugh!!!

You worked hard to be in the position to be a little demanding. If you don't love it I say leave it! Congrats on the move up the ladder!

Am I the only one that is only more than slightly suspicious about pocketing benadryl and not wasting narcs?!?

We got a goody bag with a gift card for dinner and cute nurse stuff like mugs, socks, a hoodie, a card that everyone signed and some snacks to keep in our locker! I really appreciated it! And I work for a fairly small company

Didn't read that way!