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Originally Posted by Rerun
Maybe you should keep your trap shut about things you know nothing about.
Two years ago, my wife used to work in the scheduling department of a major hospital in Calgary, so I think my info is a little better than yours (who has a friend who has a wife... da da, da da, da da...)
She scheduled nurses hours. Nurses like to work part time. The majority seem to like it that way. .... the reason being is the hospital is always chronically short of nursing staff (nobody wants to work full time) so the Scheduling dept has to always be calling up the part time nurses and beg them to come and do this shift or that shift. Usually when they get a hold of the nurses, the usual response is "Im too busy ... call my back when you are willing to pay me double my normal salary".... and of course the scheduling dept always does.
Therefore the nurse end up working a std 40 hour week. 20 hours at regular pay ($32-40 per hour) and 20 hours at double pay.
That is one of the reasons our health care costs are so high.
My wife hated her job. You wouldn't believe how hard the nurses were to deal with and the abuse she took from them for just trying to do her job. She ended up quitting because of it.
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I agree that the scheduling of nurses is a clusterfark, but the system is set up that way because the hospital likes it, not because the nurses like it. The hospitals like it so much because they save money on benefits and have more flexibility in scheduling staff. There are some nurses that like the PT system, and work it for the extra premiums, but many of the nurses on PT shifts would rather be full time. I know this because my wife was stuck on a part time line for 2 years before she was able to get a full time position... the competition for FT is actually pretty stiff. She'd get the calls from your wife and would turn them down because it's impossible to arrange child care on such short notice, and on-call work generally wreaks havoc on family and social life.