Survey Results of the New Health Care Worker Study: Implications ...

264.2. Paid and Unpaid Overtime HoursOf our respondents, 367 (27%) reported working paid overtime at premium pay and 283(21%) work unpaid overtime hours. When comparing how many overtime hours the nursesworked to the number of overtime hours they preferred, results show that 20% of nurses workedmore overtime than they preferred and 9% of nurses worked less overtime than they preferred.Staff shortages were the most commonly given reason for working paid overtime hours. Forunpaid overtime, a large majority responded that they were working overtime to finish tasksunable to complete during their regular work hours. [See Table 11 for further details on thisissue].