Question bout hours

Depends on your hospital. I have heard of this before, but my hospital is work 36, get paid for 36 but that is considered full time for benefits.

I work baylor so I work 24 and get paid for 36. But that means every single Saturday Sunday night I am at work.

Generally speaking you are paid only for the time you are at work. 36=36 usually.

Some facilities have different programs dependent upon their needs where you might work less hours and get paid for more hours but those vary from facility to facility and area to area.

Thanks for the info. I have heard about the Baylor plan, and would be interested in working that, but I am sure they do not let new grads do this. How long do you have to work until you can do this? When you get off of orientation?

Usually you are paid for the hours you actually work. Sometimes you get the full-time paid time off hours, and sometimes your paid time off is prorated so you get that benefit only for the hours actually worked. So instead of the PTO for 40 hrs/wk, you would get it for 36 hours + OT.

In our hospital, the ER has nurse who work Monday throught Friday 3 - 12's and get paid for 37.5 hours (which is full time), and they have a weekenders program, those who work 2 - 12 hour shifts and get paid for 37.5, with part time benefits.

I work PACU. So I work M-F, take call one night per week, we get pain $2.00 / hr for call. If we get called in days or eve's we get time and a half, if we get called in after 2300, we get double time. We also are on call every 6th weekend.

The remaining nurses work 8 hour shifts, and every other weekend.

For 3 12s in a week I have been paid anywhere from 34.5 hours to 36. Depends on the facility. 34.5 hours was paid when I had the shifts start/end on the hour & had a half hour unpaid break each shift. At another hospital I received 36 hours per week with a half hour unpaid break, but the shift started 15 minutes before the hour and ended a quarter past the hour. Yet, at another hospital, I had an hour and a half break per shift with 36 hours paid per week; but, once a month I had to do an extra 12 hour shift to make up the time. It just depends on the individual place.

Where I work you work six twelve hour shifts and one eight hour shift per pay period (two weeks) to total 80 hours.

If you're concerned about earning less due to possibly being paid for actual hrs worked (36) instead of 40, remember you may be getting shift differential, holiday pay, OT, and extra hours for staff meetings. Some places pay incentive bonuses for extra shifts, and places vary as to whether you get time and a half for the entire extra shift or only for those hours over 40.

I work 36 and get paid for 36 but since half of my shift is on the evening part of the shift, I get eve. differential for the whole 12h. Over time is time over 40, so an extra 12h shift will get me 8h overtime. Plus we get a weekend differential also, so it really adds up nicely.