on call pay?

[Pray]

Please forgive me if this has been covered.. but I was wondering how much money per hour your hospital pays you to stay home on call. (OB, L and D) I never questioned this before, except I have had three days this payperiod on call, and our hospital pays 1.50 per hr. for me to sit around waiting for the phone to ring. Like a friend told me "you sit around for 1.50/hr at their beck and call? You have to respond in a half hour? They get an employee to sit around for basically nothing?" Got me thinking. Yes, this is a pretty good deal for the hospital. So, is this the norm? What do you get paid to stay home on call?

[butterflynurse]

I work in a LTC facility. We are on call for a whole week. We still have to work our regular shift and if someone calls in and they can't find someone to cover, we end up pulling a double. We on get paid for 4 extra hours on our paycheck for being on call all week. This seems wrong on so many levels.

[KulRN]

We get $6.00 an hour for the time you're on call and if you get called in, time and a half is our pay...As RN's we are put on call for 8 hours....When I'm put on call, I still get to do things, I just carry my uniform with me wherever I go.

[crissrn27, RN]

We can opt to take call if cencus is low. 1.50/hr and time and a half if called in

[SmilingBluEyes]

Double shifts are dangerous. I would not want to work a place that required this.

[mitchsmom]

$2

[AgentR]

$7.50/hour to be on call, time and a half if we get called in. And we have an hour to get there.

[jenrninmi, MSN, RN]

I believe it's $1.50 where I work too. Pretty pathetic. But, there's no way I'd sit at home waiting for them to call me. They have my cell phone number. I carry my things with me just in case.

[Elvish, BSN, DNP, RN, NP]

We get $2/hr (OB) if they put us on-call (meaning calling us off when we are regularly scheduled) but regular pay if we come in. Very rarely happens, as it seems like everybody in the county comes to us to have babies every night!

[jsully13]

I work in PACU- We get $2.50/hr on call pay, time and a half if called in, and minimum 2 hrs pay. We take weekend (7am Sat. to 7am Mon.) call every 5th weekend and Friday (7pm Fri. to 7am Sat.) call every 5th Friday. It still beats WORKING every other or every third weekend in ICU though!!!!

[nurseynightnight]

We get an hours pay for every 8 hours of call.

We work 12 hour shifts and our shift is broken down from 7p-11p and then 11p-7a. So you could be on call the first 4 hours, the unit gets busy but not too busy and then they can just have you come in at 11p for your normal hourly wage.

If we get called in we then make time and a half. But if you get called in say at 9pm you only get time and a half until 11p then it goes back to your normal hourly. We are only on call if our census is low. We don't have a set number of shifts per month we have to sign up on call for.

Now I work a weekend option schedule and I have only been on call 1 time since last June. It is kind of nice in my slot b/c the other nurses I am working with that night must have had call 2 times during that pay period for it to be my turn. I don't work with the same nurses every weekend so it hardly ever happens!! Yeah for me!

[prmenrs, RN]

I get $6. I'm per-diem, so it's better than nothing, but if census is low for a couple of weeks, gets pretty bleak.

Some funny things happen, tho. Once, I got on-call (they call @ 5am, a couple of times I couldn't remember if they called or not!), they called @ 7:15!! I got time and a half for 11 hours! Yahooo!

Another time I d/c'd both of my babies by noon, went home and got called back, for double time! after being @ home for an hour.

[DebblesRN, ASN, BSN, RN]

We get $2.00 an hour, then time and a half if we have to come in.

When I worked Cath recovery, I got $5.50 an hour, and time and a half if I came in, double time on the holidays.

I think some specialties are paid better for call than others.