It's not about money. It's about "Respect " of nursing profession. If your co-RN's don't respect you, it's like they don't have respect of their own profession.
I am regular in that unit and my second night on duty. I was expecting I get the same patient for continuous of care as an RN. I was surprised they gave my previous patients to another nurse and put me as PCT.
Yes. Because first time I work as PCT my co- RN yelled at me, she ordered me to attend her pt first while I was assisting a fall risk patient in the commode.
That was my 2nd PCT job in two weeks. I was expecting assignment rotation;at least other RN's could have experience the same thing. But never happened.
I work as an RN in medsurg/tele unit in one of the hospital in Illinois. When I came to work last night I was surprised and upset because charge nurse put me as PCT. There were 4 nurses on night shift plus our charge RN and one PCT. There are 16 pati...