My facility is hiring more and more nurses. Too many nurses. New and inexperienced nurses. There are not enough hours for the nurses that are there to make a living anymore. They've started writing everybody up for everything. Dumb stuff that isn't even true. The nurses that have been there for years are worried about if they are going to keep their jobs. Nurses are having to try to find second jobs to get hours.
I am one of the new nurses. They hired me for $19.50 per hour. I have been there since February. I graduated and passed the NCLEX-RN in January. My manager says that I'm the best nurse on the unit. There are nurses on my unit that have been nurses for years longer than I have. One of them makes about $7.00 an hour more than I do.
I wonder what the corporation is up to in my facility. Why are they hiring so many nurses, and cutting everyone's hours?
our hospital is using the same practice, a few years ago we were able to get all the overtime we wanted, many times i could call at 3p to see if they needed help at 7 p and they would say YES PLEASE. our sister hospital started doing it first, they overhired, had too much staff (mostly casual and part time) and the regulars no longer got the easy overtime. i braced myself because my friend warned me we were next. sure enough we were hiring new grads like crazy ( we used to not hire them) and now we are overstaffed and many having to stay home on low census days.i got an average of 24 hrs a week and i'm full time. ( and was used to paychecks with at least 12 hrs ot on them)
so we have a lot of nurse who work part time with fewer or no benies and no one getting ot, it works better for the hospital that way. marale is getting bad over here, people are stressed and fighting over hours and complaining about why one person got to work a double and they didn't. and just recently they have started enforcing the time card rules ( no clocking out early or staying late or you get reprimanded) and now people are starting to worry about job security, seems like the people with the most seniority (highest paid) are the ones getting written up and called in for meetings over petty little things now..
getting scary and it's all about the money unfortunately.
livesinscrubs
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our hospital is using the same practice, a few years ago we were able to get all the overtime we wanted, many times i could call at 3p to see if they needed help at 7 p and they would say YES PLEASE. our sister hospital started doing it first, they overhired, had too much staff (mostly casual and part time) and the regulars no longer got the easy overtime. i braced myself because my friend warned me we were next. sure enough we were hiring new grads like crazy ( we used to not hire them) and now we are overstaffed and many having to stay home on low census days.i got an average of 24 hrs a week and i'm full time. ( and was used to paychecks with at least 12 hrs ot on them)
so we have a lot of nurse who work part time with fewer or no benies and no one getting ot, it works better for the hospital that way. marale is getting bad over here, people are stressed and fighting over hours and complaining about why one person got to work a double and they didn't. and just recently they have started enforcing the time card rules ( no clocking out early or staying late or you get reprimanded) and now people are starting to worry about job security, seems like the people with the most seniority (highest paid) are the ones getting written up and called in for meetings over petty little things now..
getting scary and it's all about the money unfortunately.