Charge nurse pay

[Blandini7]

How much do you get for charge pay at the hospital in which you are employed?

[rnaturcervix]

0 dollars AND a regular patient load (most of the time). Pretty generous, right?? :)

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[Esme12, ASN, BSN, RN]

Depends on the facility. Some paces ahve paid as much as a $1.50 some have paid 50 cents. I have known places that paid nothing.

[Been there,done that, ASN, RN]

$1 whole buck an hour.. along with the daily management responsibility for the unit.All of the responsibility with none of the authority!

In other words... The additional pittance received, needs to be weighed against the overall duties and legal ramifications.

[NurseQT]

I work in a LTC and I get an extra $1.10 an hour for charge pay, add that to my $.90 NOC shift differential. This is the first job that I've gotten charge pay, my previous employers wouldn't give me charge pay because I'm an LPN, even though I worked as the charge nurse!

[martymoose, BSN, RN]

0 dollars AND a regular patient load (most of the time). Pretty generous, right?? :)

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us too

[Mr. Murse]

I don't know what our full time charges make, but when I charge I get an extra $2 something an hour.

[lefrench123]

$12 a shift for the headache.

[Twinmom06, ASN, APN]

0 dollars AND a regular patient load (most of the time). Pretty generous, right?? :)

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This^^

[AgentBeast, MSN, RN]

More work for the same amount of pay.

[applewhitern, BSN, RN]

No extra money; a full patient load. All "charge nurse" means at my hospital is the RN gets to give all pushes, blood products, PICC and central line meds for the LPN's. Oh, we also get to do all initial physical assessments, skin assessment sheets, and care plans for the LPN's, all the while we have our own patient load.

[exp626]

$1 an hour. Depending on the census and/or if we're short staffed, there can be other duties, like a partial pt load or be the remote tele nurse. We also answer codes.