Twelve hour shifts. Are you doing 3 or 4 days a week?

nrsang97, BSN, RN · May 23, 2015

No mandated overtime. I usually only work 3 twelve hour shifts a week, but sometimes this week I am working 4. We do get holiday pay.

NursePooda · May 23, 2015

I am per diem, and recently I have been working 3 to 4 days per week. I have a couple of weeks (next week, for instance) where i only work 2 days. I pick up days for the OT. We have been running at >100% capacity since Dec, so it's easy to pick up extra shift. I don't have to though. No one on my unit has to. We just do for the money. Days that none of us do we have float pool or travel nurses filling in.

Cletic our per diem crew has it good like you. If they wanted full time hours they could get it every week if they wanted too since we're short staffed every single day! Some places it's not guaranteed you'd get the hours you want but at our facility the hours are waiting on you. Lol

NursePooda · May 23, 2015

We work 3/ 12s for full time status. Time and a half for holidays. 12% shift diff AND weekend diff.
We had 4 months of mandated OT this winter due to census and staffing. We were required to do an extra 12 hours every two weeks. First time in my 38 years as a nurse I've been mandated to work OT. And the last, I assure you.

Lmao Meanmaryjean I don't blame you. I've been working alot of 4/12s I do get shift diff and weekend diff. But our hospital doesn't get holiday pay.

TheCommuter, BSN, RN · May 23, 2015

My workplace offers holiday pay for the Big Six: Thanksgiving Day, Christmas, New Years Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day and Labor Day.

Nurses are scheduled for three 12-hour shifts, but can opt to work a fourth if census is higher than usual. If census is low, the third 12-hour shift might be canceled.

nekozuki, LPN · May 24, 2015

5-6 days a week if I agree to it, but only because I work in PDN.

blah_blah_blah · May 24, 2015

No mandatory overtime; they just offer incentive pay if we are really, really short - which we have been almost every single shift for months now. We supposedly get "holiday pay" - it's $1.25/hr. I feel more insulted than if I didn't get any holiday pay at all. How does anyone think an extra $15 before taxes makes up for missing a holiday?

1.25/ hour holiday pay?! I work at a GROCERY STORE and FT employees get time and a half for holiday shifts and PT employees get a dollar an hour extra holiday pay. That is pretty insulting.

juju0889 · May 24, 2015

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Caffeine_IV · May 24, 2015

When I was FT, I just did my 3 12s.

However in a previous position we were scheduled 1 OT shift every other week. I got burned out quickly.

Holiday pay is Time and a 1/2

I'm prn now and I work the bare minimum.

BumbleBuddy · May 24, 2015

I know of a facility in my area that does time and half for holidays, but it has to come out of your personal hours! :confused: If you don't want to use your PH time, you don't get the time and a half.

THELIVINGWORST, ASN, RN · May 24, 2015

We work 3-12's, OT Pay after 40 hrs, holiday pay is time and a half. No mandatory OT, I would be finding another job. I prefer working weekends because on top on my extra $2/hr for nights, I get an extra $1/hr and four extra hours added on at base pay.

flipflopsNsweetTea · May 24, 2015

No mandatory overtime, but many of us on my unit work 4 12s because we are short staffed and the census has been super high. Personally, I have been working 4 days every week for almost 2 years. In return, other than the OT pay and sometimes they throw some incentive pay my way, I get the schedule I want...M-Th -- no weekends unless I agree to it.

FloatRN19 · May 24, 2015

I'm scheduled 3 12's a week. I get %15 shift differential every shift for floating and I get the night differential as well, whatever that may be. Then on top of that I either pick up an 8 or 12 hour shift extra each week and right now my hospital is giving an extra 10 an hour for every extra shift you pick up.