That's insane! Where is this?

Good for you!!

Can I ask what kind of job is that and what site you found it on?

where i work, non union, they pay per diems LESS. It's awful. Then they can send you home whenever they want.

Damn right! That's what Monica and I do and we couldn't be happier 😁.

That’s exactly what all the Bay Area and Sac nurse couples do!

@@NursesToRiches I've been following this channel since it started. Cant wait to start our journey there in Cali. In-laws flight is scheduled on June. Wife and I got our RN license already endorsed. All we have to do is line up job and move! Oh and sell our current house that went up 45% in it's value so we can have money for down payment once we find a house. Looking at Roseville area. any other areas you would suggest? got 2 little ones, wife and I just got in our 30s

I need to find a girlfriend that is a nurse lol.

@@Ivanrei1530 you should look into Folsom and El Dorado Hills as well. Oh, and Rocklin too. I made a video about our favorite places in the Sacramento area. You can watch it here kzfaq.info/get/bejne/itOFdMeU1qysfaM.html

You're welcome and thanks for watching/commenting!

You're welcome! Thanks for watching!

Thanks Katherine! 🙏🏼

Thanks! Glad you liked it!

Thanks dude!

Woot Woot! That's what's up. You're welcome!

Thanks dude!

Hah, thanks!

It really is. If only Kaiser would give per diem nurses health insurance for working 1000+ hrs/yr it'd be a dream come true because Monica and I could both be per diem.

@@NursesToRiches Full time is on average 1,920 hours if you have 4 weeks vacation a year. Let’s say they did that, most nurses would probably go per diem. Most hospitals would probably see that as a loss. They always win, but if they did do that, that would be fantastic! I always wonder how most of these institutions come up with pay rates.

1. They won't cancel you if you are working someone's vacation or continuing education days. Also, you can get penalized if you cancel the shift when you're working for someone in those scenarios. However, if you are sick, you can still call out sick without being penalized. Also, availability for extra shifts just means making yourself available if they need you. They never say or do anything to you if you are always unavailable outside of the minimum required shifts. 2. They will never hold it against you if you only pick up the 4 shifts per 2 pay periods for the entire year. 3. You can pick up as many shifts as staffing or your coworkers are willing to give you.

Hey Justin! Having one of you work a benefited position while the other works per diem would be the best of both worlds because the per diem employee would be earning more per hour and would also be able to follow the other's work schedule so you could both be off on the same days-giving you more time off with each other. I could make a video explaining pensions but I would have to do more research on the topic to make sure I'm giving you accurate information. Lastly, if you get a job at one of the hospitals that have 8 hour shifts, you usually have a variety of templates (or positions) to choose from with differences in the required amount of working hours. For example, at Kaiser, you'd be able to work anywhere from 20 to 40 hours per week, depending on which position you apply for.

@@NursesToRiches perfect! Thanks man. Keep up the great work!

The answers to your questions are: 1. No, they won't allow you to not pick up shifts for that long. 2. No, you cannot pick up shifts in other units unless it's one medsurg floor to another. Or unless you are a telemetry nurse that also gets floated to a medsurg unit. But, let's say, your an ED per diem nurse, you cannot pick up a shift in a medsurg floor or the ICU. 3. The shift availability is cyclical. Most of the year you'll be able to pick up as many shifts as you want. But there are times where there won't be many shifts available to pick up at all.

Yes, 6 months.

That is correct with Kaiser NorCal hospitals.

Any answer ? Where do they stay during those times so they don’t lose their pay to hotel fees, etc?

This is what I want to know, too! Does the employer cover travel costs, lodging, meals, ect. if a per diem nurse from the out of state gets called in?

Nope, the employer will not cover the cost. For most employers you'll be lucky if you get any benefits at all as a per diem employee. Per diem employees go per diem for the flexibility and pay. I know of one nurse who has a home in Georgia and uses to travel back and forth every other week but it's become too expensive and not worth it so now he owns a home here in Sacramento and took on a benefited position.

Having experience helps (at least one year) but you don't need it if you're willing to be patient. I would recommend going through incredible health because they help nurses get jobs withing 14 days and I'm not kidding so only apply through them if you're ready for work. You can use my link to sign up bit.ly/NursesToRiches

In almost every facility when you're per diem you make your own schedule. But each employer will have a different requirement for the number of hours you are required to work. With Kaiser in Northern California you only have to work 4 days every 48 to 52 days or so.

@@NursesToRiches are there hospitals that will allow me to work a few times a year? I don't want to commit very much to one employer

Hi, overtime and a half after 8 hours and double time after 12 is a California law. So, regardless of what your title is, unless you are a salaried employee or there is another exception, you qualify for overtime as a per diem employee just like a benefited employee. However, the 6th day premiums, 7th day premiums, and run pay is a benefit that is only available to regular (not per diem) nurses within the Kaiser system.

@@NursesToRiches Thank you!! I think you said in one of your other videos that you don’t get overtime if it’s a 12 hour shift. So, if I want to work per diem and get overtime pay, then I need to look for an 8 hour per diem shift and then extend my shift in order to get overtime pay, do I understand that right? Would I always be able to extend the shift like that if I wanted to?

@@ashleymeyers209 you are correct. If you are hired as a 12-hour-shift per diem nurse you won't earn overtime from hour 8 to hour 12, but you will earn double time from hour 12+. However, if you are hired as an 8-hour-shift per diem employee, then you'll get the overtime rate of 1.5x from hour 8 to hour 12 and double time after the 12th hour.

I gotta say, Monica has it made. She makes more money than me and she gets to reap my healthcare benefits, lol.

@@NursesToRiches Looking forward to find a perdiem position without compromising my full time job. 😇😁

That includes $17k into 401k?

Yes, we both transfered all of our 403bs and 401ks from the hospitals we worked at in NYC to Kaiser. The process was extremely tedious but it's totally worth having all of our retirement accounts consolidated.

@@NursesToRiches how did you guys go about doing that? 🤔this should be a video! Lol

What steps did you take transferring your old 403b to kaiser? I have this prob right now. Spent 3 hrs in calls but their instructions are so vague

@Christian it may be a cumbersome process, depending on the broker you will be transferring your money from. You will have to go to your Kaiser Vanguard account ND initiate a transfer. Vanguard will give you a form with the account details needed from your previous broker. You then log into your old 403b's website and initiate a rollover. They'll ask you for the account details from your Kaiser Vanguard account and you might have to print, sign, and fax or email the form to your old 403b's broker before they can process the rollover.

At Kaiser there is no self scheduling but they are constantly putting out different shifts that are just like the ones you've described. We also have this event our director hosts once every year or two where they allow us to drop our add days from our template. We also have plenty of 12-hour shifts. We've had some nurses, that were working 3 8-hour shifts per week (24 hrs), ask if they could just work 4 12s instead, and they had those requests approved. So, now they work 4 12s in a row and have 10 days off every other week. However, these things are very unit and management dependent because, although any manager/director can approve such a request, most do not.

The ICU and ER have 12 hour shifts. All other units don't.

@@NursesToRiches :( too bad I’m not ICU or ER…but I’m hoping to get into UCSF’s per diem 🍀 while on an assignment

Yes, it is. But Per Diem and PRN are not the same as On Call.

@@NursesToRiches Thank you for responding

@@vanthachhim you're welcome!

I KNOW! I'm 33, no wife, no kids, and I easily look 10 years older than him!

Yes.. We have a 15-year-old daughter (who's going to turn 16 in August) and an 11-month-old job 🤐.

@@NursesToRiches oh i only knew about the little surprise!!! Good job you guys!

@@unicornhorse1632 yup, she's a teenager and never wants to be in front of the camera so you don't see her in any of our videos. The funny thing is that she says her classmates have found our videos on KZfaq and have even subscribed to our channel cause they think we're cool. Lol

Makes sense

Hah, well, when I post the video about the highest-paying hospitals in California you might want to work in another non-Kaiser hospital in California.

Maybe but at this point in my life I’m tired of working for other people. I just want to work at the highest paying hospital system in California working 10-20 years and retire early from my rental properties, stocks, and eBay business.

El Camino is an awesome hospital, I was trained there!!

Yeah I heard they treat there nurses very good. With nurses in Cali making this money you would think doctors and crna’s unionize lol.

@@briancheng8243 how were the nurse to patient ratios and what type of floor did you work on