The Differences Between a Nurse Practitioner and Clinical Nurse Specialist While both Nurse Practitioners (NPs) and Clinical Nurse Specialists (CNSs) are highly educated and experienced in a variety of nursing procedures and practices, the roles remain distinct from one another.
Definition of straight time. 1  1 : the regularly established working time of employees during a standard period (such as a week) excluding time lost through absence or gained through overtime in most industries straight time still exceeds 35 hours a week. 2 : the rate of pay applicable for straight-time work had 40 hours at straight time and 12 hours of overtime pay.
For employees on a flexible work schedule, overtime is all work time officially ordered in advance that is in excess of 8 hours in a day, or 40 hours in a week, or 80 hours in a biweekly pay period.or an employee whose rate of basic pay does not exceed GS-10, step 1, the hourly overtime rate is 1 1/2 times his or her hourly rate of basic pay, including locality or special salary rate but exclusive of pay of any other kind (e.g., night differential, cost of living allowance).