charge rn differential?

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hey everyone just curious to see if my hospital is on par with others... were getting .63 cents an hour for charge pay... please reply

Specializes in Cardiac Telemetry, Emergency, SAFE.

$1.00 an hour to run the OR charge..thats not enough if you ask me.. Thats a lot of finagling they have to do for $8 dollars!!!

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I can't believe it but my hospital pays $3.00 per shift (not per hour) for taking on the responsibility of charge nurse. That can't even get you to work and back if you take public transportation in NY! On top of it you have to take patients! (Maybe one or two less then your coworkers but it's no walk in the park) It seems crazy when compared to what other hospitals are paying. Being a charge nurse on my floor is really hectic too, noone wants to do it ...ever!

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Specializes in ICU, Surgery.

$1.00/hr here.

22 room OR suite and NOT NEAR enough for the aggravation! You have to arrive at 5:30 to make all the assignments and never leave before 3:30.

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thanks everyone .63 cents an hour with a full load seemed unfair to me... but i dont think declining the resposibility altogether is the answer, pt care is certainly compromised without someone in charge... im trying to figure out a way to present this to my manager... at least decrease the case load the charge nurse carries... coming a little short on resources, anyone know of any articles or some kind of documentation that proves a smaller caseload would be more beneficial to the unit in terms of pt care and outcomes? sorry new nurse here (a year in) some im a lil short on where to find this type of research... thanks for all ur responses and any additional guidance

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I was very lucky. The staff I worked with on nights were a true team in every sense of the word. I was the only RN pretty much every night I worked, and our LPNs were outstanding. I took a full load, but during the times I had to do staffing or blood draws or whatever, they covered my patients. We each approached it as though the entire floor were our patients--- no one sat around if one of us was busy. You never heard "that's not my patient". Until I worked elsewhere, I didn't realize just how rare that is :)

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our unit is very team oriented however i still think having a charge rn at all times is a necessity for the orderly flow and organization of the unit...

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:idea:bump

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our unit is very team oriented however i still think having a charge rn at all times is a necessity for the orderly flow and organization of the unit...
Of course it is. That was my job. ;)
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We get 1 hr pay. If you make $34/hr, then that is what you get for charging.

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Specializes in NICU, Telephone Triage.
hey everyone just curious to see if my hospital is on par with others... were getting .63 cents an hour for charge pay... please reply

That's pretty sad...sorry but we get 6% of our pay....average around $20 a shift.

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We don't get charge differential :p

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