I've always assumed that PRN staff makes more, usually base plus another 15%. Well, you know what they say about assuming.
In the HCA owned hospital in Austin, I took a $2.50 pay CUT to go from part-time to PRN. To add insult, I then made $5.50 less an hour than at my other PRN job.
Ascension Hospital (non-HCA) $33.55/hr PRN
St David's (HCA) $28.00/hr PRN $30.50 parttime
So I talked to the CNO, showing her my Ascension paystub as proof how much less they were paying me. I told her I didn't expect her to match Ascension wages, but thought it was reasonable to make the same amount of money for the same job I had been during a week earlier. She told me that HCA wages where set by God or someone equally important and she had no power to change them. At which point I had to quit.
I hated to quit, I really liked the patients and my coworkers, but with such an egregious wage difference I just couldn't continue to work there.
