On call requirements for per diem visit nurses

$25/night
PRN 's not included in the on call rotation

Don't feel bad. I signed on with a new agency four months ago to do shift work on established cases and all I've ever received are three calls at ten o'clock or worse at night for a last minute fill in. I believe agencies are aware that work is harder to come by these days so they think everybody wants to sit by the phone holding their breath to jump at the chance to work when someone else doesn't want to or to take the call in the middle of the night.

The agency I work for has recently decided that any new people, full time or PRN, will be required to enter into the call rotation.

Per Deim at the agency I work for are required to participate in on call. We have weekend on call (friday at 5 to Monday at 8 am) and week on call M-Th (5 pm to 8 am) both are re-imbursed at $200. I think it may depend on what part of the country you live in also. When I lived in the midwest it was less like $15-20 per day, although that was 2 years ago, so that may be the difference too.

Ours is $25/day for weekday, supposedly $50/day for weekend plus the w/e visit rate but I haven't actually seen my on call pay yet for the weekend, so we'll see.

I am PRN LPN (all of our field nurses are PRN no matter how many visits or hours we work) and am required to take call. It is usually once every few months but we get $20 for the week and $25/visit that we are called out to. $20 if it is a scheduled weekend visit. I hate it but its part of the job...

I guess I should point out that only RNs take call at my agency. We have one full-time LPN who lets us know when/if she's available for straight visits, but most of our call visits are SOCs and ROCs.

Our LVN's take call Monday to Monday I think they get $175. They rotate about every 8 weeks. The DON/Ast DON take call throughout the week M-Th. The RN's take call Fr-Sun and get paid $90. There is fewer of us, so we get call about every 4-5 weeks. And mostly we are the admit nurse for the weekend only, or resumption of care unless the CM can do it.

We have an answering service who contacts the LVN first, and if she needs help, she calls the RN.

The last two places I worked, one was call every other week--there was a triage nurse, but if someone had to go out, it was you. And the other, they literally forward the phones to you. So, you'd get all kinds of calls after 5PM. I think on-call is the norm, PRN or not.