Call Pay and Specialty Pay

We do 120-150 deliveries a month. On call is $1.50 an hour and $5 to drive in. We all do 8 hours of on call nights a month.

Job #1: We do approx 100 deliveries/month. Around 3.25/hr for call, required 24hrs call in 4 weeks, Job #2: 200 deliveries/month around $3.00/hr call, required 8 hrs/call in 4 weeks. Neither offer specialty pay.

I don't believe in specialty pay. I believe we should not be treated as moveable pieces on a game board. If they can't find a urologist do they call in an orthopod?

In a true emergency most of us could step in and help out on other units, but for day-to-day operations, we should not be moved to units that are very different from our base unit.

Many years ago I worked in an Acute Dialysis unit that cherished nurses. We received very reasonable on-call pay and were called in for true emergencies only. The docs respected us, and gave us our due.

I hope your unit runs the same way.

My unit has 30-50 deliveries a month. We don't have specialty pay. We get $1.50/hr for on call and are required to take 1-8hr call shift every 2 weeks. We don't get paid for drive time, but we do get time and a half when we are called in. Also, if we get called off, we are put on call for the full 12 hour shift. This does not count as a required call shift.

25-40 deliveries a month

call is 3 12's a month. if you work an extra shift it knocks off a call

call pay is $2.50/hr time and a half if you get called in.

no specialty pay

level 1

350-400 births per month. No specialty pay. No being pulled to other floors - EVER. On call time is voluntary, none required. If you sign up for call, it's $2/hr for call time. If called in, you get paid time and a half, plus are paid for a minimum of 2 hours (even if they do not need you for that full 2 hours). We are rarely left home on call for scheduled shifts due to low census because we are almost always full.

Case in point - they have already called me twice to see if I could come in extra today.

Around 150 births/month. $8/hour to be on-call, time and a half if called in, double time if called in on a weekend. We used to have to take 2 12-hour call shifts a month, now it's usually 1/month because our staffing is a bit better.

$8/hour for on call? Holy mackerel!

250 births/month. $2/hour for being on call, time-and-a-half of your salary if you get called in. You are required to be able to float to either the NICU or the high-risk OB/AP area, and that happens to an individual nurse maybe once every 3-4 months.

Thanks for all the helpful responses. There are a few things my unit needs to look at and reconsider. It is mandatory to take atleast 12hr of call a schedule,sometimes 16 hr depending on staffing. We get 18.00 flat for signing up for the 12-16 hrs. If you get called in you don't reach overtime til after working 4 hrs,since we work 36 hrs a week. I feel it should be time and 1/2 as soonas we hit the door. We don't don't hourly pay to be on stand by or drive time pay.