The standard nursing roster is 3 x 12 hour shifts one week and 4 x 12 hours the following week. With standard overtime rates this adds about 25% to their income. If the nurse is working 84 hours in a week then they will get 106.5 hours pay, with two weeks off on full pay in addition that works out at 61.5 pay hours a week or 184.5 pay hours for 84 hours worked. I'd take your hand off for that sort of a fantastic roster.1. "Nurses work a 39 hour week" - You've got that spectacularly wrong; I can almost hear every hospital nurse in the country laughing and guffawing, I kid you not. Have you heard of the week-on-week-off system where nurses work 84 hours night duty in Week 1 and are off in Week 2? They are "compensated" for the additional hours worked too. A fulltime nurse is paid for 39 hours weekly basic pay. I had been under the impression that you knew how hospitals are staffed, but I am wrong.
The standard nursing roster is 3 x 12 hour shifts one week and 4 x 12 hours the following week. With standard overtime rates this adds about 25% to their income. If the nurse is working 84 hours in a week then they will get 106.5 hours pay, with two weeks off on full pay in addition that works out at 61.5 pay hours a week or 184.5 pay hours for 84 hours worked. I'd take your hand off for that sort of a fantastic roster.
The standard nursing roster is 3 x 12 hour shifts one week and 4 x 12 hours the following week. With standard overtime rates this adds about 25% to their income. If the nurse is working 84 hours in a week then they will get 106.5 hours pay, with two weeks off on full pay in addition that works out at 61.5 pay hours a week or 184.5 pay hours for 84 hours worked. I'd take your hand off for that sort of a fantastic roster.
The standard nursing roster is 3 x 12 hour shifts one week and 4 x 12 hours the following week. With standard overtime rates this adds about 25% to their income. If the nurse is working 84 hours in a week then they will get 106.5 hours pay, with two weeks off on full pay in addition that works out at 61.5 pay hours a week or 184.5 pay hours for 84 hours worked. I'd take your hand off for that sort of a fantastic roster.
How long would a business last if 1 in 10 of your customers unhappy with the product or service you are providing?Another hugely positive Ipsos MRBI Civil Service Satisfaction survey report for 2019 required by the PublicService reform plan 2014-2016.
48% of the Public had interaction with at least one of the Departments.
85% of those surveyed were satisfied with both the service received ( up from 83% in 2017 and 76% in 2015 ) and the outcome of their most recent contact ( up from 87% in 2017 and 83% in 2015 )
Dissatisfaction is at it’s lowest since 2009 . dropping from 39% in 2009 to 20% in 2019.
89% said that service levels are mostly meeting or exceeding expectations ( again up from 87% in 2017 and 83% in 2015 ).
Kudos indeed guys and gals.
It always good to see some facts to support the idea that Public Sector reform is actually happening rather than anecdotal comments to the contrary.
Show me a published list of nursing rosters where they work 7 days a week for 12 hours a day. They are certainly entitled to overtime after the first 39 hours. Show me something other than your opinion. If I'm wrong then I'll say so but show me the evidence. Show me where they work 84 hours and don't get any overtime. At the moment I just don't believe you.
By the way, working 12 hours a day is no big deal. Doctors, builders, shopkeepers and many running small businesses do it and they don't get 2 days off for each day worked.
All the HSE hospitals and probably all the others which have night duty rosters mainly work 7 nights x 12 hours per night (8.00pm - 8.00am) on one week of the fortnight and nil on the next week. If you can't come to terms with this I'm afraid you're not well informed on the matter.
My understanding was the standard roster was 3 x 12 hours one week with 4 x 12 hours the following week. There was an attempt to move to 6 or 8 hours shifts but, as usual, the Union blocked it.My cousins who are nurses in HSE hospitals don't work anything like those rosters.
Evidence please.1. Purple, you're still digging and once again you're wrong and worse again failing to admit it. Let me go on record as saying:- All the HSE hospitals and probably all the others which have night duty rosters mainly work 7 nights x 12 hours per night (8.00pm - 8.00am) on one week of the fortnight and nil on the next week. If you can't come to terms with this I'm afraid you're not well informed on the matter.
2. Overtime payments to nurses apply as follows:- Work 39 hours in a week and whatever is rostered over this amount can be considered paid overtime. The exception is nurses on night duty rostered on-a-week-on-week-off system do not get overtime unfless they are called in during the hours outside of 8pm - 8.00am.
3. I am sorry that you don't believe me. What I am saying is not my opinion they are facts. I am certain of my facts and it appears no matter what I say you'll disbelieve. Ask any nurse or nurse manager and you'll see I'm correct.
Evidence please.
Totally with you Leper , I know nurses in Waterford University hospital who work extraordinarily unsocial and long hours both in the main hospital and the psychiatric unit.I'm not going to trawl through any hospital intranet to dig up what is widely known. Like I said earlier:- Ask any nurse who works night duty.
There was an attempt to move to 6 or 8 hours shifts but, as usual, the Union blocked it.
Yep, and those still working who moved to merged hospitals like Tallaght are still on separate contracts, unions were open to merging all staff to a single contract but only if ridiculous pay increases were granted.
I can't comment on this as I do not know the full story and what I post is as truthful as I can do.
If all nurses are working the hours you suggest, why did the INMO not raise that in the most recent dispute? Why did they celebrate achieving the 37.5 hour working week? My family members' experience doesn't tally with what you're saying.
One of my kids is considering nursing. I'm not encouraging it. You'd want to have a real vocation to be a nurse in the Irish health system.that's how desperate hospitals are to recruit qualified nurses.
Methinks there should be a (paid) half hour overlap at hand-over time."Hey Lep, you never mentioned the hand-over time, which we work without pay."
They are very will paid but the structures within the health system cause gross waste (misallocation of resources and duplication of process) and the resulting suffering of patients and their families can make it an unpleasant and stressful place to work.One of my kids is considering nursing. I'm not encouraging it. You'd want to have a real vocation to be a nurse in the Irish health system.
A relative of mine is a school vice principal. She proposed that retired teachers take a 5% cut in their pension (2.5% net of tax) and that would fund pay equalisation. Of course that won't happen but it would be fair, equitable and cost neutral.Today’s actions of the TUI and ASTI unions prove my point entirely.
They’re demanding, actually commanding because they will get it, pay parity between junior and senior teachers, which is an absurdity.
Why don’t the overpaid senior teachers offer to reduce their pay in line with junior teacher pay for this purpose? That would be an unprecedented goodwill gesture and the revenue saved could be sent on infrastructure and service provision rather than personal enrichment.
Jeopardising children’s education and discommoding parents for their own selfish avaricious reasons; they’re utterly disgraceful.
Today’s actions of the TUI and ASTI unions prove my point entirely.
They’re demanding, actually commanding because they will get it, pay parity between junior and senior teachers, which is an absurdity.
Why don’t the overpaid senior teachers offer to reduce their pay in line with junior teacher pay for this purpose? That would be an unprecedented goodwill gesture and the revenue saved could be sent on infrastructure and service provision rather than personal enrichment.
Jeopardising children’s education and discommoding parents for their own selfish avaricious reasons; they’re utterly disgraceful.
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