Typical benefits?

[jaylynn67]

Im leaving a company where i have worked up to three weeks of vacation, next year i will have four weeks paid vacation. Thats after 10 years. Im curious what the typical benefits are for a hospital RN. I live in Cleveland, Ohio, so will most likely be working at a hospital here. Are benefits pretty much the same as the business world? One week vacation after a year, etc. Thanks for your repsonses.

[Altra, BSN, RN]

In my experience, yes, the benefits offered at the 3 hospitals where I interviewed before accepting a position were comparable to the benefits I was familiar with in the corporate world in my previous life.

At my hospital, vacation & personal time are accrued based on hours worked the previous year, but it still comes out the same - after working 1 year you have accrued 80 hours (or 2 weeks) vacation.

Best of luck w/your job search. :)

[Daytonite, BSN, RN]

For Cleveland, yes. What you will find is that some hospitals put all your holiday, sick time and vacation time into a bank of hours. I worked at PCGH in Parma and that's what they did. Where I've worked they've called it PTO time (Paid Time Off). This bank of hours is used whenever you take a sick day or are off on a holiday. It could also be used if you requested a day off for some reason or another and wanted to get paid for it. If you never used any of this time and you worked every holiday you would have a lot more than just a two weeks (or 80 hours) of accrued vacation time. Now, the bad news is that most hospitals won't let you take more than 2 weeks off at a time although you can take as many two week vacations during the year as long as you have the PTO time to do that. A lot of the ones I worked in further restricted that to no vacations, period, between Thanksgiving and New Year--just when everyone would really like to be off! Also, facilities learned very quickly to put restrictions on when you had to use up these accumulated hours since there were some workaholics who would let the time build up to numbers like 400 or 500 hours! What I've seen is that after 24 months if you haven't gotten your PTO bank down to a certain number of hours, the hospital just paid you out for the build up hours. Some places will actually just let those built up hours expire, so you use them or lose them. Healthcare. . .gotta love it!