Survey - allnurses.com : Do you report overtime for missed breaks or late charting?

[Brian]

Here are the results of last months survey question

Do you report overtime for missed breaks or late charting? :

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[wtabtch_36]

Hi everyone!

I'm a pn student and saw this post and had a few questions for you guys! During our clinicals days we go in at 7 and don't leave until 1 pm, my question is are there any laws that state how long of a break students are supposed to have or if we are to have a lunch break ? we recieve a 10 min break to do what ever we need to do ie : restroom, eat, smoke ect. unlike the rest of my clinical group i am also a phlebotomy student and have my phlebotomy clinicals on the same day from 5 am to 7 am ( i get up at 3 am ) and one 10 min break makes for a long day , our instructor refuses to allow us any more time to attend to our needs the hospital is large enought the by the time you get to the machine to get a drink you barely have time to make it back to the unit we are working on! does anyone have any suggestions on how we can get a longer break or if any laws are being broken only allowing us a 10 min break?????? if you know of any laws please send me the link !!!!

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[blondie]

A half-hour is automatically deducted for a meal. If I only get to take 15 minutes or so, I let it slide. Comes with the job. I believe none of the nurses at my facility take the full half-hour. However, if I don't get to take a meal at all, I notify the supervisor and fill out the appropriate form so that no time gets deducted from my hours that day. Other breaks are unheard of. As for overtime, of course I get paid. Understaffing is due to poor decisions on the part of the administration. If a nurse must stay late to complete her professional duties, she is simply doing her job as it has been laid out for her by the administration, and she should not feel guilty for doing what she was hired to do.

[cactus wren]

Ho everyone,

I previously posted that we weren`t allowed to put "no lunch" on time card...Well, after several meetings with the suits and all nurses, we are now supposed to get paid(but no retroactive) Just finished my 6 days, and put "no lunch" on all 6 shifts.Time goes in Sunday, so by next payday we`ll see..........

[Youda]

Cactus, you can get paid retroactive. Just file a complaint with the Department of Labor. They'll come in and raise a little heck . . .

[Tweety, BSN, RN]

When we you used hand write our time in the old days, I would always just put 40 hours regardless. Now we have a time clock and it's more accurate. We are deducted 30 minutes for lunch. We can write an exception report to request the pay if we've missed our lunch. I have never ever reported a missed lunch and there have been many many times. But there too are those quiet third shifts where I get my lunch time and then some, but those are few and far between.

[Tweety, BSN, RN]

When we you used hand write our time in the old days, I would always just put 40 hours regardless. Now we have a time clock and it's more accurate. We are deducted 30 minutes for lunch. We can write an exception report to request the pay if we've missed our lunch. I have never ever reported a missed lunch and there have been many many times. But there too are those quiet third shifts where I get my lunch time and then some, but those are few and far between.