Patient Sitter - Is 15 $ an hour good?

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Hi,

I just got a job as a patient sitter and it pays 15 $ Canadian per hr during days and 16 $ per hour on nights

Is this an average rate of pay for a "patient sitter" type of job? I was just wondering what the going rate for this type of job is.

The job entails mostly watching the pt if they are confused, etc.

Thanks!

Ive made $15-20 per hour doing the same, but in private/homecare in Ont...ie paid by pt's POA, NOT a facility.. in the last 5 or 6 years. Pretty good, depending on your responsibilities and the needs of your client I suppose. Im not sure about in facility pay. Good time for reading though - especially during the night.

I wish I could get onto that again - I was just offered a CNA job in a busy nursing home (in Utah) for $8.20/hr...after gas and a bb sitter..would be $4/hr. GEEZ!!!

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Vida

It's a hospital based job :)

Specializes in Community Health, Med-Surg, Home Health.

I'd take it, and I'm a nurse!

HI. That's about what I make as a sitter. I work at a hospital. Some nights you can't beleive you're getting paid that much for what your doing. Some nights you can't believe you're not getting paid 100 dollars an hour.

Specializes in Peds, PICU, Home health, Dialysis.

I am a nurse apprentice on a pediatrics floor, and unfortunately am required to sit once in a while when no sitters are available. Most of our sitters are actually CNA's floated from other departments and their pay is $16.23 for per diem (most of the CNA's are per-diem at my hospital).

I don't mind sitting until it hits 4:00 a.m. and then it is very hard to stay up. Patients on the pediatrics floor that typicaly need 1:1 observation are those with suicidal ideations. I have never had anything go wrong while sitting and I end up sitting there watching movies with the kid/teen.

Consdering you do as much as the old guy who stands at the front of the walmart, that's a good wage.

Specializes in Peds, PICU, Home health, Dialysis.
Consdering you do as much as the old guy who stands at the front of the walmart, that's a good wage.

Kind of harsh.

Yes, there isn't much to sitting (and everytime I have sat it didn't take much more effort than the greeter at Wal-Mart). But I know of situations where sitters are attacked or sitters need to begin CPR on their patient.

Specializes in Acute Care Cardiac, Education, Prof Practice.
Consdering you do as much as the old guy who stands at the front of the walmart, that's a good wage.

I don't think that is an accurate statement at all. Of all the times I have needed to call in a sitter the patient has been pulling out lines, getting out of bed, hollering at the staff and more.

Kind of harsh.

Yes, there isn't much to sitting (and everytime I have sat it didn't take much more effort than the greeter at Wal-Mart). But I know of situations where sitters are attacked or sitters need to begin CPR on their patient.

Thank you. I am a sitter and I was attacked two nights ago. My patient took the bedside phone to my head, face and neck 15 or 20 times before they could get me away from him. I ended up in the ER. It's not always an easy job!

Specializes in Acute Hemodialysis, Cardiac, ICU, OR.

WOW! The sitters in my hospital make about $8/hour and aren't expected to do anything BUT "sit." In fact, they are NOT trained in CPR, and are specifically instructed to do nothing but "watch" the patient. I can't even get them to lend a hand with grabbing a supply for me, much less turning or feeding or transferring a patient...

Specializes in Peds, PICU, Home health, Dialysis.
WOW! The sitters in my hospital make about $8/hour and aren't expected to do anything BUT "sit." In fact, they are NOT trained in CPR, and are specifically instructed to do nothing but "watch" the patient. I can't even get them to lend a hand with grabbing a supply for me, much less turning or feeding or transferring a patient...

A sitter is not allowed to do any sort of patient care (turning, feeding, transferring, etc.). I think the only time a sitter is able to do this is if they are a CNA, Nurse Apprentice, etc.

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