Additional pay for being in charge or precepting orientees?

Currently there is no extra pay for being in charge or precepting!! I belive that thare should be...our contract is up next year and I have heard that this subject is going to be brought in durning negotiations.....

We have additional pay for both preceptors and charge. Somewhere in the 1.50-2.00 range for both.

WE get a measly 50 cents per hour for charge and a big fat zero for precepting. I precept ALL the time. Just when I finish with one I have another orientee waiting. Don't get me wrong, I absolutely LOVE precepting but I think that it is worth something. We are taking these people and getting them ready to be independent functioning RN's. I think that we should get something for that. Those of you who precept know how demanding this can be, and challenging as well. I think people would be more apt to precept if there was a bonus along with it.

Texas Nurse Practice Act states we are all teachers. That said, I see no harm in paying for the extra work. I do expect our preceptors to attend training classes, because there is a right and wrong way to do everything. I have found some teaching "polices" that conflicted with actual policy but the nurse "thought it ought to be that way". We pay $1/hr for precepting new employees. Those who precept students get no pay, but the schools allow them CEU's.

It is built into our "Pay for skills". It's .50 for each skill. So if you do charge and orient/precept you're already making a dollar an hour, every hour whether you do it or not.

we get $2. an hour to charge.

big whoop. i will do without to NOT be in charge. I don't like it.

precepting?

that is just expected of us all, I guess. no extra pay for that. I agree, there should be. and I think charge pay should be at LEAST $5 an hour. too much responsiblity for too little $$$.

We USED to get charge pay at our clinic.. a whole one dollar/hr., but better than nothing. The "company" has taken that away as of two months ago. They state as an RN, this is part of your RN responsibilities and training and skills... not anything "extra" that should be elevated and "recognized" as being something special or "above and beyond"... that it simply falls into the category of what is expected of an RN..............:stone

As a recent orientee, I think that nurses SHOULD be paid more to precept. At my facility, a nurse usually didn't even know she had an orientee until that day. I had an experience where the nurse I was orienting with just isn't a good teacher and was overly critical. But, as a co-worker...she is just fine. Some people are better than others at precepting and want to do the work, and they should be compensated nicely. Others hate it, and they shouldn't HAVE to precept because they are assigned it. I don't think it helps the orientee OR the preceptor.

We get extra pay for precepting, charge and floating. First time I've ever gotten extra pay for floating, but believe me it cuts down on the histrionics when someone is asked to float!!

About precepting -- I agree that not everyone should do it. Unfortunately, here we have the "nicest" nurses doing the precepting, and not necessarily the ones with the ability to think critically, organize their time or teach. As a result, some of the newer (I mean less than 2 years) nurses are extremely high maintenence co-workers. And just when they start to catch on, they leave!

The itsy bitsy charge differential isn't really enough to compensate for the headaches -- but at least we know management understands that it IS a headache!

$1.00 / hour for charge. Nothing for precepting.

If I were doing charge for the money, it would not be worth it. As it stands right now, I enjoy being charge (dedicated charge nurse position). There is talk about changing our ICU Charge Nurse position whereby the charge will take patients. THEN--it is really not worth it. $12 per day to deal with staffing decisions, bed assignment, do chart audits, QA, smooth ruffled physician and co-worker's feathers, AND care for patients. Nope, waaaaay not worth it. When that happens, I want to go back to being in staff.