VA 72/80 schedule

Specialties Government

Published

I work for the VA ER in Las Vegas, and our unit is considering the 72/80 schedule. Does anyone have any experience with this? If so, do you like it? What are some of the pros and cons?

Also, how does the AL and SL work when you take leave?

Do you still accumulate leave and retirement at the same rate?

Thanks. Any information will be helpful.

anyone can send me info on how to approach management on 72/80 would be greatly appreciated [email protected] 

Up Vote Up Vote ×
Specializes in ICU.
NeNe said:

I was just looking up information to help implementation of policy for the 72/80 here at the VA in Wilmington, DE. I and another coworker collaborated and researched to have the 72/80 implemented. I am proud to state that it was approved and the medical-surgical unit began it 6/5/2022 to eventually be implemented hospital-wide. If anyone would like more information on how to get buy-in from their nursing leadership team, please feel free to comment and I will send you my personal information to help this implementation be done at your VA. Thanks and trust me with support from your units, it can happen. Basically, we still get paid (we actually got an increase) the same as if we were 80. In order to trade off, we had to state that we all agreed that unless we work the holiday, we will not get paid for it. This was fine with most of us as we came from the private sector and that is what is done with them. I noted that one of the hospitals within VISN 4 (Lebanon) had implemented the 72, and reached out to their HR and eventually got in touch with the nurse managers. They assisted me through the process and myself and my coworker first presented it to the Nurse Practice Council who then supported to be presented to our Clinical Leadership. Again, I am willing to assist and help anyone who wants to get together to present the idea to get everyone onboard. There is no way that we all should not be doing 3 12-hour shifts a week, especially nurses that work on inpatient nursing units. The VA has to make themselves competitive with the private sector because it is a great place to work!!

Please send me anything you have to help us get this started at the Fayetteville, AR VA. Our management says it costs too much and we don't have a retention problem. But then also say that we have so many vacancies at this time that it wouldn't work to have staff work 8 less hours. We also can't get our leadership to keep our pay comparable with local hospitals. They say we don't have the funds to pay our nurses what local hospitals pay. So they give us half of the difference, promise to give the rest the next year, then sorry, new leadership decided against it. They know we love our job here and use it against us by not giving us the raises we deserve. Many of our staff are having to get 2nd jobs. They also refuse all education waivers. We all assume their bonuses correlate to how much $$ they don't give us.

Up Vote Up Vote ×
Specializes in ICU.

Send me an email and I will give all I have. 

Up Vote Up Vote ×
Specializes in ICU.
Rza said:

Send me an email and I will give all I have. 

Here is my email address. I'm new on here so I guess I can't send messages yet?  [email protected]

Thank you so much!

Up Vote Up Vote ×
Specializes in OB.

My facility is looking to implement the 72-80 as well. Is anyone willing to share what they have so far? 

 

[email protected] 

 

 

Up Vote Up Vote ×

So we here in LA have started the 72/80 AWS. FMLA burns faster and because of just for system or time keeping purposes, it doesn't give you a full 480 hrs!  You only get 432 hrs which is the amount for part time employees.  I found out the hard way. So I just took it to the union. And waiting to find out further information,  This shouldn't be the case because we are full time.  Has anybody had any experience with this?

Up Vote Up Vote ×
+ Add a Comment