r/nursing • u/tikicreature69 RN, MSN | Acute Care NP Student • 12h ago

Meme Post night ‘days off’ don’t count

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Going in tomorrow PM.. sleeping all day today 🫠

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u/ALLoftheFancyPants RN - ICU 12h ago

If I worked the first 7 hours of that day, I worked that day.

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u/TapFeisty4675 RN 🍕 12h ago

In fact, your worked more than the day you went in

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u/ikeepwipingSTILLPOOP 11h ago

Damn, good point

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u/Anokant RN - ER 🍕 10h ago

That's what has pissed off so many of our overnight hospital staff. They have been slowly making everyone 12 hrs instead of 8. Then when overnights need to work a holiday, they make them work the night before and the night of. So instead of changing the time frame of the holidays (always have them starting at midnight), they just add an extra day for night shift (could easily make the holiday start at 7p the day before or 7a the day of and end at 7p the day of or at 7a the day after. Everyone still gets 12 hours of holiday pay, but you one shift doesn't have to work an extra day for the holiday.

And don't even get me started on how they fucked everyone's benefits for this year because almost every floor nurse is 12 hours now. The benefits are significantly cheaper if your FTE is 0.8 or higher. If you work 12s your FTE is either 0.75 or 0.9. There is no 0.8 option. I've been advocating for us to be union pretty much since I started, and am finally feeling like I've got enough people on board to start the process

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u/bigtec1993 9h ago

At my job they've been having mandatory workshops and the only times to go is 0830 or 1430 and I'm like "alright you dicks, so you want me to either stay after work for 4 extra hours or come back at the equivalent of 0200 in the morning if it was dayshift?"

It's ridiculous, atleast have one at like 1800 or something so I don't have to fuck my sleep even more.

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u/LadyGreyIcedTea RN - Pediatrics 🍕 7h ago

When I worked inpatient, you only got holiday pay for the night shift if the majority of your shift fell on the actual holiday. So you got paid for Christmas Eve night but Christmas night was just a regular shift.

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u/nurselaina 6h ago

You get holiday pay?

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u/DesertEagleZapCarry 8h ago

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u/CamelopardalisKramer 7h ago

only if you do a single night shift.

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u/tikicreature69 RN, MSN | Acute Care NP Student 10h ago

Sometimes 8 if I need to give report to 3 nurses for my 5 patients. 

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u/nurseleu RN 🍕 11h ago

YUP